Winter 2025 Year-End Appeal
Dear Friends,
When I sat down to write this letter, my 10-year-old said, “You should tell them that Boxerwood is a place where parents can take their kids and the kids can just be free.” I’m not sure I can make a better case for Boxerwood than that, but I am going to try.
This year, we’re celebrating Boxerwood’s 25th anniversary. That’s 25 years of community, connection, and care, 25 years of Boxerwood’s growing with and for Rockbridge County. As we celebrate this milestone, I am delighted to return to the Boxerwood team as Executive Director. Our Earth stewardship mission, our education programs, and the Garden itself are beloved to me. I am especially excited to return now, because it is clear to me that Boxerwood is made for these times.
Boxerwood is a place for connection. In this cultural moment, I know that many of us encounter strong currents that push us toward isolation and uncertainty. Yet Boxerwood stands against those currents. Boxerwood is about coming together, building relationships, and expanding our kinship with one another and the Earth.
The challenges our society faces today cannot be solved at an individual level. Instead, we need to join in the joy and satisfaction of doing something important together – and that’s what Boxerwood provides.
Many of you have already joined us in this endeavor as members, volunteers, and financial partners. You’ve experienced how Boxerwood lets us step out of our separate selves into living relationships.
We can’t do it without you – your donation to our Year-End Appeal makes this work possible. When you support Boxerwood, you’re investing in impactful education programs, beautiful gardens, and vital stewardship actions. And more than that: you’re investing in the relationships and the joy that sustain our community.
This moment calls us forward. To use our resources for the good of the world. To trust that unity of purpose generates the solutions we need. Boxerwood is not only where we answer that call together, it is how.
Thank you for 25 years of support, and all that’s still to come!
Ben Eland
Executive Director
Thank you for supporting our mission
Winter 2025 Year-End Appeal
Dear Friends,
When I sat down to write this letter, my 10-year-old said, “You should tell them that Boxerwood is a place where parents can take their kids and the kids can just be free.” I’m not sure I can make a better case for Boxerwood than that, but I am going to try.
This year, we’re celebrating Boxerwood’s 25th anniversary. That’s 25 years of community, connection, and care, 25 years of Boxerwood’s growing with and for Rockbridge County. As we celebrate this milestone, I am delighted to return to the Boxerwood team as Executive Director. Our Earth stewardship mission, our education programs, and the Garden itself are beloved to me. I am especially excited to return now, because it is clear to me that Boxerwood is made for these times.
Boxerwood is a place for connection. In this cultural moment, I know that many of us encounter strong currents that push us toward isolation and uncertainty. Yet Boxerwood stands against those currents. Boxerwood is about coming together, building relationships, and expanding our kinship with one another and the Earth.
The challenges our society faces today cannot be solved at an individual level. Instead, we need to join in the joy and satisfaction of doing something important together – and that’s what Boxerwood provides.
Many of you have already joined us in this endeavor as members, volunteers, and financial partners. You’ve experienced how Boxerwood lets us step out of our separate selves into living relationships.
We can’t do it without you – your donation to our Year-End Appeal makes this work possible. When you support Boxerwood, you’re investing in impactful education programs, beautiful gardens, and vital stewardship actions. And more than that: you’re investing in the relationships and the joy that sustain our community.
This moment calls us forward. To use our resources for the good of the world. To trust that unity of purpose generates the solutions we need. Boxerwood is not only where we answer that call together, it is how.
Thank you for 25 years of support, and all that’s still to come!
Ben Eland
Executive Director
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