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Artist J. Clayton Bright, who created several bronzes for Bunny Mellon over the years, discusses working with the OSGF founder and returning to Oak Spring to learn about a new art: paper making.
To celebrate World Food Day, we’re talking about leather britches - a unique and sustainable preserved beans with a rich history in southern Appalachia.
In honor of National Wildlife Day this year, we’re celebrating some of the unsung - but no less important - pollinators that we see flitting and crawling among Oak Spring’s flowering plants.
Our Biocultural Conservation Farm is looking for volunteers this harvest season! Read about the new volunteer program and some of the fascinating crops grown at the farm.
Read about Oak Spring’s first Bioblitz - an event in which dauntless naturalists identified as many species as possible on our 700-acre property in a (long!) day.
Read about the American Chestnut - once, one of our region’s most ancient and important trees, before it was wiped out by a blight in the early twentieth century - and current efforts to restore it.
To celebrate Mrs. Mellon’s 111th birthday this year, we asked several OSGF employees who didn’t know her personally to tell us how her legacy inspires their work at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation today.
Summer means long and sultry days, bushy and verdant landscapes, and lots of insect pests. Read our list of several plants that can help keep the (bad) bugs at bay.
Head Carpenter Fred Griffith, who first came to Oak Spring to help build the Garden Library in 1979, talks about the various projects he’s worked on over the years.
Many plant and animal species have incredibly close relationships, depending on each other for food, shelter, reproduction, and more. Read about several trees and grasses that support native birds.
Since we won’t get another chance for 17 years, Oak Spring’s staff and residents decided to celebrate the Brood X emergence with a cicada cook out. Get the recipes here, and watch the video to learn about these fascinating insects - and find out what they tasted like!
The theme of this World Environment Day is ecosystem restoration. Read about the range of ecosystems we care for at Oak Spring, and about several ways you can help restore ecosystems yourself - no matter how big (or how small) your property is.