Cape Fear Botanical Garden - Fayetteville, NC

Through the partnership with FTCC, students use the Garden as their living laboratory, where they are able to master skills such as landscape and construction techniques, irrigation design and installation, and plant identification. Former students have achieved professional success in positions at Smithsonian Institution Gardens, Ft. Bragg, Fayetteville State University and other entrepreneurial enterprises.

For more information on FTCC's Horticulture Technology Education programs, please contact Terry Gause, Curriculum Chair, at (910) 678-8447.

Cape Fear Botanical Garden was pleased to provide some of Tom Keever’s great photos and information about the CFBG Children’s Garden to Korean doctoral candidate Jasmine Kwon. Jasmine is a researcher in horticulture science at Korea University and works at Korea National Arboretum in education. She has been studying children’s gardens and education programs since she was at Longwood and Kew Gardens as an international intern. Jasmine recognizes that children’s gardens may play a key role in helping children grow up to be more conscious of where their food comes from, eating healthy and caring for the environment.

The focus of her research is on the Important Elements and Programs in Children’s Gardens & Education Programs in the United States. She wants to find out what specific elements or programs are the most important for children and why. She is also writing a book on the Children’s Gardens of North America, and has researched the first children’s gardens in Asia. You can look to the January 2012 issue of Kids Gardening News on the National Gardening Association’s website for some of her earliest conclusions.

Athena Anderson is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia studying bumble bees. She has designed a simple survey that anyone can fill out should they find a bumble bee nest. There is currently no database for bumble bee nest site preferences in North America, and this information would be valuable for conservation efforts. For more information on her research and to complete her survey click here.