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61 Franklin St. Garden

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A Chance Encounter in the Demonstration Garden

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A community garden that keeps on going!

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A First-Year Community Garden Experience of a Lifetime

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A Garden is a Gift to the Future

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A Grow Appalachia Love Story

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A Labor of Love Project

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A Millionaire, a Missionary, and a Mutant Marigold

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A More Perfect Union: A Vision for the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building Lawn

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A Mother’s Garden in My Heart

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A Passion for Insects

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A Shared Raised Bed Garden

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A Southern Urban Wildlife Habitat

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A Story About Hope

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A Student Perspective: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

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A Tower Grove Butterfly Garden

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A True Gardener

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A Walk Through My Pollinator Garden

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A+ Garden Centre

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Adventures in Gardening: Highlights from a Garden Tinkerer

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Albert’s Garden

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Albuquerque BioPark Botanic Garden

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Algonquin / Lake in the Hills Interfaith Food Pantry Victory Garden

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Amelia’s Potager

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American University’s Edible Garden

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An Italian-American Garden Story

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An Unusual Leadership Style

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Ancestral Roots Community Garden, Menlo Park Neighborhood

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August Heckman’s Food Club and Garden

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Awbury Community Garden

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Barg Homestead, Franklin, Wisconsin

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Beatrice’s Garden

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Beet Street Gardens

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Bel Arbor Community Garden

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Bellevue Botanical Garden

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Bellingrath Gardens & Home

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Berwyn Heights Community Garden

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Betty’s Garden

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Big Daddy’s Complete Rejuvenating Community Garden

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Bouvier Community Garden

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Bowie Gardens for Wildlife

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Breeze Hill

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Brewerytown Garden Story

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Bridge Gardens

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Burns Science and Technology Charter School Green Ambassadors

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Butterflies in My Attic

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Cairo Bend Road Garden

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Camellia japonica at the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden

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Camellias at the Huntington Botanical Gardens

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Campbell Elementary School’s Outdoor Classroom

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Camy and Larry’s Backyard Wedding

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Capitol Car Distributors

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Cattail Marsh and the Wetlands Education Center at Tyrell Park

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Cecilia Auge’s Garden

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Chester Avenue Community Gardens

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Citizens Committee for New York City

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Clyde Williamson’s Garden

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Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

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Cohen Family Garden

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Common Good City Farm

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Conquering the Soil

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Cultivating my happy place! A victory garden for the body and soul.

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Cultivation: A Family Tradition

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Dance of the Gardens

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DC Gardeners Oral History Project

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Descanso Gardens: A Peaceful Place

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Diversity Gardening

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Dolores’ Gardens

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East Capitol Urban Farm

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Eastgate Community Garden creation 2024

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Eight Mile-Wyoming Gardens

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El Jardin del Paraiso

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Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden

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Fannie Griscom Parsons’ Children’s Garden

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Farm Bureau/Extension Community Garden

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Farm to Bear: Honeyfx Apiary

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Filoli

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Fitzwater 2000 Community Garden

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Forest Bathing

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Four Generations of Gardeners

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Foxhill

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Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild Food Bank Farm

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Fred A. Toomer Educational Garden

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From Rainsoaked to One Hundred

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Gannon Garden in Union, Illinois

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Garden Work to the Rescue

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Gardening Community Style

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Gardens of Spirit

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Gerbing Gardens

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Getting to Victory Gardens in Staunton, Virginia

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Glen Foerd Community Garden

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Glory Community Garden

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Goodbye, Garden Hero

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Grandma & Grandpa’s Garden

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Grandma’s Garden

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Grandmother’s Garden

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Gratitude Garden in Clinton, Maryland

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Greenhouse 17

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Gregory’s Garden

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Habitat for Pollinators

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Harvest Fun

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Heirloom Garden

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Heisi’s Garden

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Hickory Hill Children’s Garden

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Hornworm Home

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Horticulture is Hard Work, But Rewards Bounty and Beauty

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Ithaca Children’s Garden

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Ivan’s Garden

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J.E. Moate’s Garden

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Jones Valley Teaching Farm

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Judy’s Garden

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Jungle Gardens and Herbarium on Avery Island

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Just Plant More Beans

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Kirk Community Garden

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Kona Coffee Living History Farm

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Koskau Sawada WinterGarden at Mobile Botanical Gardens

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Ladue Ward III Garden

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Lafayette Community Garden and Outdoor Learning Center

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LaGuardia Corner Gardens

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Lan Su Chinese Garden

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Las Parcelas

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Laura’s Garden

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Libby Area Commune Garden II

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Libby Area Community Garden

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Libby Museum Butterfly Garden

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Liz Christy Community Garden

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Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

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Lost Gardens

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Maple Avenue Monarch Butterfly Garden

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Marjory’s Garden

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Maymont

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Mays Garden

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Meet the Superstar Habitat Steward™ of Franklin Park

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Melanie Link Taylor Teaching Garden

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Memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II

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Memories of an Iowa Homestead

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Memories of World War II

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Minnesota Goose Garden

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Miss Bloomers Butterfly Garden

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Mom’s Gardens

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Mrs. Woody’s Garden Story

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My 96-Year-Old Dad has a Green Thumb in West Virginia

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My Affair with Gardens: Georgia Mountain Ethnobotanic Gardens and Woodland Medicine Trail

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My Church Garden

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My Father’s Garden

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My Monarch Garden Story

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My Monarch Project

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My Monarch Story

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My Neighbor’s Garden

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My Story of the Indianapolis Museum of Art Gardens

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My Story of the Shiojiri Niwa Garden

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My Teeny Tiny Jungle in Washington, D.C.

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Natalie’s Garden

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Never Give Up!

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New York Restoration Project: A Gardener’s Journal

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North Austin Community Garden

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North Idaho Native Plant Arboretum

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Nuccio’s Nurseries

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Our Family Garden

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Our Garden Retreat

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Our Native Plant Pollinator Garden

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Our School Garden at Paul

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Partnering With Mother Nature

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Pingree’s Potato Patches

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Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

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Planting a Pollinator Garden in the Greenbelt/Treebelt/Verge

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Planting Seeds of Hope

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Please Touch Community Garden

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Popcorn Summer: Family Gardening with Indigenous Seeds

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Poppa & Momma Jones’ Historic Community Garden

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Poquoson Learning Garden

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Portland Japanese Garden

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Prairie Butterfly Garden

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Quanah Garden

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Ramon’s Garden

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Raven’s Garden at the Santa Barbara Zoo

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Red Clay Heals

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Refugium Garden

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Restoring a Poet’s Garden

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Roberta’s Retreat

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Ronan High School Native Plant Garden: A Space for Learning, Community, & Cultural Competency

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Rose Villa Nursery

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Saltonstall and Lloyd

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Saving a Rose for Fairbanks, Alaska

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Sharon’s City Sanctuary Garden

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Shepard Street

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Shirley’s Garden

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Simon’s Tomato Garden

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South Carolina Botanical Garden

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Springfield Community Gardens: Innovation, Education, and Collaboration

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St. Cloud Community Garden

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Story of Longue Vue House, Gardens, and Family

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Suburban Prairie Garden

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Sunflower Village at Franklin Square

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Suzie Secret Garden

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Tall Cedars Farm

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Taneyhills Community Library Garden

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The Airport Garden Group

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The Bradley & Leila Barnes Victorian Gardens

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The Catalpa Tree on the Napientek Homestead

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The Children’s Learning Garden at Woodend Sanctuary

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The Gandhi Garden

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The Garden Lounge at the National Museum of Natural History

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The Garden Path: Green, Growing, and Blooming Project Journal

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The Garden Path: Green, Growing, and Blooming Project Journal Part II

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The Garden Path: Green, Growing, and Blooming Project Journal Part III

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The Gardens at Chewonki

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The Green Thumbs Garden at The Works

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The Hill

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The Importance of School Gardens During the Pandemic

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The Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden

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The Joy of Gardening for Monarchs

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The Milkweeds for Monarchs Garden at Forsyth School

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The Neighborhood Farm Initiative

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The O’Donnell Garden

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The Raised Pallet Box

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The Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon

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The ShawneeSun Garden

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The Smith Garden

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The Spartan Garden at White Station High School

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The Vanishing Waters of Columbus Plaza

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The Victory Garden and Community

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The Victory Garden in a Cemetery

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The Village Green Conservancy ~ A Park in the Dawn and the Dark

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The Weed Out Hate Initiative

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The William A. Harris Garden

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Thomas Jefferson Middle School Garden

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Three Part Harmony Farm

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Tomatoes for the Neighborhood

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Tyler Elementary FoodPrints garden

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Tyler’s Garden of Roses

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UpGarden PPatch

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Urban Garden with Honeybees

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Urban Oasis for Pollinators

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Van Vleck House & Gardens

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Villa Africána Colobó

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Walking the Talk in the Suburbs – A Midwest story of education, transformation, and inspiration

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Watson and Bassett

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Welcoming Bluebirds to Smithsonian Gardens Greenhouses

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Well Fed Community Garden

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What’s What in the Albuquerque BioPark Botanic Garden

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Where Were You On 9/11?

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Wiota Street Community Garden

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Women in the Food Movement

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Wrangling & Flowers in the Absaroka

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