A Visit to the Cleveland Botanical Garden Flower Show

The Cleveland Botanical Garden Green Corps Garden is one of several nonprofit gardens at the Flower Show. The Green Corps is a community outreach project of the Botanical Garden and a passion of Garden director, Natalie Ronayne.

With the Green Corps Program, the CBG sponsors community gardens in urban areas around Cleveland. These gardens are planted and tended by area youth 13-18 years old. The participants in the program, 40 chosen from over 400 applicants, take the garden from seed to market. They plant, tend, harvest, design the logos, and sell the produce at area farmers' markets.

The Flower Show garden represents just a taste of what Green Corps does. For more information, and to see how you can support this worthwhile program, visit the CBG Web site.