With Emilee Weaver, Manager of Therapeutic Horticulture at North Carolina Botanical Garden, Tony Allison, Board President of Partnerships for Nature, a US non-profit organization that works closely with Ukrainian botanical gardens and Dr. Andriy Prokopiv, Director of Lviv University Botanical Garden in Ukraine.
Join us for a timely webinar about Ukrainian botanical gardens and their critical role during the ongoing war with Russia. Since the Russian invasion in early 2022, Ukraine’s botanical gardens have been serving as centers of respite, recovery, environmental education, and nature healing. Leaders from several Ukrainian gardens will describe their current focus on Therapeutic Horticulture, utilizing US expertise provided primarily by North Carolina Botanical Garden to assist the traumatized population of their country, including veterans and displaced families. Ukrainian botanical garden leaders will provide vivid images of their gardens and their work and will discuss the crucial support from US partners. The webinar will conclude with a question-and-answer session and will explain how you can assist these efforts.
Fee: free; registration required.
Location: Zoom
Accessibility: This will be a virtual program that takes place on Zoom with the option to enable closed captioning.