Tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 22) the Virginia Green Industry Council hosts its second annual Virginia Garden Festival at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Going green is an issue we are all talking about—especially here at the Garden. We spent one of our recent staff meetings dedicated to this very topic. Our in-house caterer Meriwether Godsey has even taken strides to “go green” by switching to plastic cups instead of disposables and using containers made of corn-based materials rather than petroleum-based ones.

We’re taking environmental considerations into what we’re doing here at Lewis Ginter in everything from day-to-day operations to planning for new gardens. In spring of this year, a Master Water Management Plan was devised for the Garden’s 82-acre property and the plan is to incorporate it as much as possible as we move forward.

Are there some things you are doing in your garden to “go green”?

Beth Monroe is public relations director at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.

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