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OSGF is very please to announce the 2022 recipients of our Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence, our Stacy Lloyd III Fellowship for Bibliographic Study, our Fellowship in Plant Science Research, and our Fellowship in Plant Conservation Biology.
Eating foods with long histories in Appalachia is a great way to learn about how people have cultivated, harvested, and cooked with them for many centuries, support local farmers, chefs and growers, and connect to the land we live on. Read about several comforting crops our BCCF farmers grow and cook with.
Read about how the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the National Association for Olmsted Parks and Olmsted 200 partnered to create a new, downloadable educational exhibit in celebration of Frederick Law Olmsted's bicentennial in 2022.
To celebrate our upcoming “Treasures of the Oak Spring Garden Library” lecture on the rediscovery of the lilac and the horse chestnut in the eighteenth century, we’re sharing several modern-day tales of rediscovered plants.
Excruciatingly astringent when unripe, the American Persimmon is a treat for people and wildlife alike when eaten at just the right time of year. Read all about the history of one of our most fascinating native fruit trees.
All plants are magical, but certain plants have made far more appearances in potions, spell books, and ceremonies than others - for purposes both good and nefarious. To celebrate Halloween this year, read our list of the most magical plants!
Artist J. Clayton Bright, who created several bronzes for Bunny Mellon over the years, discusses working with the OSGF founder and returning to Oak Spring to learn about a new art: paper making.
To celebrate World Food Day, we’re talking about leather britches - a unique and sustainable preserved beans with a rich history in southern Appalachia.
In honor of National Wildlife Day this year, we’re celebrating some of the unsung - but no less important - pollinators that we see flitting and crawling among Oak Spring’s flowering plants.
Our Biocultural Conservation Farm is looking for volunteers this harvest season! Read about the new volunteer program and some of the fascinating crops grown at the farm.
Read about Oak Spring’s first Bioblitz - an event in which dauntless naturalists identified as many species as possible on our 700-acre property in a (long!) day.
Read about the American Chestnut - once, one of our region’s most ancient and important trees, before it was wiped out by a blight in the early twentieth century - and current efforts to restore it.
To celebrate Mrs. Mellon’s 111th birthday this year, we asked several OSGF employees who didn’t know her personally to tell us how her legacy inspires their work at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation today.
Summer means long and sultry days, bushy and verdant landscapes, and lots of insect pests. Read our list of several plants that can help keep the (bad) bugs at bay.