News by Tag: Arboretum

Archived News

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  "The Artist's Garden"
  Fall Lecture by Michael Petrie
  Sunday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m.
  Sharpless Auditorium, Free to the public
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  Quercus coccinea - Scarlet Oak
  The Arboretum's Tree of the Month
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  Arboretum Wins 2007 American Public Garden Association Publication Award
  Haverford College's Arboretum won the American Public Garden Association (APGA) 2007 Dorothy E. Hansell Publication Award for its new Tree Tour brochure.
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  Rare Wollemi Pine in Residence
  Two young trees, whose history goes back to the age of the dinosaurs, are now growing at Haverford College Arboretum.
• ABBY ROSENHECK ’99 EDUCATES AND EMPOWERS THROUGH URBAN SPROUTS GARDEN PROGRAM
  For some, gardening is a quiet hobby; for Abby Rosenheck ’99, however, urban agriculture has become a force for social change. Rosenheck is co-founder and executive director of Urban Sprouts, a garden-based education non-profit operating in four San Francisco schools. Committed to educating middle and high school students in San Francisco’s underserved areas, the program hopes to bolster academic performance, health and nutrition, ecoliteracy, and youth development.