February 24, 2022
The 2022 season of docent training is well underway with 18 new and continuing docents. This multi-session training takes place in person and in the Garden in February and March. Topics range from natural science, ethnobotany, and art to strategies for serving diverse audiences through formal and informal activities. Enjoy a few photos showing a glimpse of the docent training in progress.
In his welcome to docents in training, Executive Director Rick Herrman calls for “fun at the heart of learning.”
Inviting docents to observe week-by-week tour development, Jeff Muse, our education manager, leads an introductory Public Garden Tour offered at 1 p.m. each Saturday in February and March.
Adrian VanderHave, a volunteer with his wife, Bonnie, shares his notes while learning about botany.
With the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as a backdrop, instructor Sylvan Kaufman, an ecologist, compares and contrasts trees and shrubs, cactuses and succulents, grasses and more. “Start with the basics,” she encourages.
A retired science teacher and longtime docent, instructor Ken Bower introduces billions of years of geologic history that helped create today’s Botanical Garden.
