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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Botanical Gardens & Arboreta, Environment
Mission: To establish and promote an enjoyable and educational botanical garden accessible to everyone in or near humboldt county and northwestern california. To promote the use of botanical gardens by developing botanical displays of special interest, and for conducting botanical or horticultural programs.
Programs: The hbgf maintains a 44. 5 acre site that contains over 7 acres of developed formal gardens, a 345 foot elevation overlook with sweeping bay views, multiple hiking trails, and the only 100-foot diameter earth sculpture in the united states. The formal gardens include an ornamental terrace garden, the largest native plant garden in northern california, a riparian area, and a temperate woodland garden. The site is open to the public year round and hosts a variety of educational programs and special events for people of all ages. Programming includes a free monthly early childhood education series. The hbgf grows a vegetable garden for local food banks, annually donating 1,000+ lbs of vegetables. The hbgf encourages research and maintains a plant specimen accession database.
tthe organization has been granted funding from the humboldt lodging alliance to conduct a maketing campaign. The campaign is inteded to market the gardens as a tourist attraction, which will increase revenues for the gardens, as well as the area as a whole.
artist peter santino's "all happy now" garden is a merger of two ancient landscape architectural features, the ziggurat and the labrynth, along with the famous mathematical equation called the spiral of fermat. A major upgrade was done in early 2017 to this garden. The sculpture is a work of art, and can be utilized as a walking labryinth.