This month Boxerwood achieved a long term goal: we’ve created a new garden of native plants to beautify the approach to the Lodge, rehabilitating an area that had been largely taken over by invasive species. The garden was designed by Eli Kosarin, a talented landscape professional who has been working at Boxerwood as an independent contractor for the last year. …
Paying It Forward
Kudos to 18 Maury River Middle students, who one Friday after school last month, planted three dozen trees along a tributary of Woods Creek. Most of the students were members of the Boxerwood Bay Club, committed to local give-back action after a fall trip to the Chesapeake Bay. The project was in partnership with Rockbridge Conservation, owner of the property, …
Join the Rumpus
Hello Rockbridge Friends! We are producing another original spectacle at Boxerwood to be performed October 14 -15, 2023 and welcome your help. A WILD NOTION is an ecological call to action and hope, concerning three Rockbridge County youth who have forgotten how to dream. Dany, Iris and Maxine are called into the woods by forest emissaries to search for and …
What’s For Dessert Betts?
Thank you to BEA co-founder Hunter Mohring for sharing this story about one of the pieces of artwork still lurking about Boxerwood, as created by its first gardener (and owner), Dr. Robert Munger. The first day I came to Boxerwood, I fell in love. It was spring and Boxerwood was bursting with new growth, fresh blooms, noisy birds; and there …
Another PlayTrail Wonder
The PlayTrail is Boxerwood’s little gem. Every year hundreds of children and families enjoy the sound of the babbling brook, the shade of trees, the clanging of dishes in the mud kitchen and the joy of playing in nature. As one of the PlayTrail’s guardians, I like to add something new to wow the kids each year. This month, with …
One Plant, Many Problems
Youngia japonica March 2023 A single sunflower is actually made of many thousands of small flowers, forming a composite that is arranged to attract pollinators. Sunflowers are in the plant family Asteraceae, the largest flowering plant family, with about 24,000 different species. Like sunflowers, other plants in this family have composite floral heads composed of many tiny flowers with their …
One Turtle, 421 Pledges
March 2023 We are all connected As the Early Education Coordinator I typically teach preschool to second grade students, then the “Upper Education” team takes over with the third graders. I was lucky enough to be one of the Boxerwood educators that got to go into the third grade classrooms this winter for the new Ocean Protectors program. The goal of …
One Project, 434 Citizen Scientists
March 2023 This month 103 households from Buena Vista, Lexington, and Rockbridge commenced our 2023 Backyard Compost Challenge – a record. The group includes 22 families who enjoyed the project so much last year they signed up again. Almost everyone else is new to composting. Once again we had a waitlist. This is one excited group – check out some …
backyard composting year three
Boxerwood Launches 3rd Annual Backyard Compost Challenge February 2023 In partnership with all three local jurisdictions, Boxerwood is once again facilitating a conservation challenge in which 80 local households receive free backyard composters in exchange for participating in a 10-week food diversion study. Now in its third year, The Backyard Compost Challenge has already helped 150 local households adopt composting …
Thank you, Devan
Thank you, Devan February 2023 This month we bid farewell to Devan Malore, a Boxerwood friend to the end. More than a friend – an inspiration! If you never had the good fortune to meet Devan, quite likely you still met his outdoor art. And if you met his art (here and there and everywhere), then you had met Devan: …