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    September 22, 2025

    Maker Stories: In the Studio With Kristin Dennison of Goodland Pottery  

    Kristin Dennison can sit for hours at her pottery wheel. The flat, circular machine is about three feet tall and…

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    August 4, 2025

    A Partnership to Preserve Wildness Around Cultivated Spaces

    As part of our commitment to plant science and conservation, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has partnered with student researchers across…

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    July 22, 2025

    Why a Passion for Native Plants Matters

    “It’s been sort of a thread that’s just woven throughout my life…this interest in plants and the environment,” Ginger Rickeman…

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    March 20, 2023

    Digitizing the Gardens’ Herbarium

    The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Herbarium is a hub of energy, activity, and progress this spring!

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    January 12, 2023

    Meet Gardenshop’s Makers

    If you’ve been to Gardenshop—or its accompanying webshop—you might have noticed that, beyond offering visitors a memorable piece of the…

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    June 2, 2022

    Horticulture Diaries: The Wind Orchid

    I first learned about the Gardens just days before I saw the help wanted ad. My interview was on a…

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    May 19, 2022

    Bee Day–the Gardens’ bees have returned!

    Sarah Callan (another Gardens educator) and I recently installed our new bee packages and brought our surviving hives home for…

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    April 27, 2022

    Horticulture Diaries: Haney Hillside Garden

    Somewhere early along my path here, I became the caretaker of the Haney Hillside. The list of those who wanted…

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