The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks will hold the 24th annual Greening of the Garden Gala on May 3 at the garden in Fayetteville. McDonald's Restaurants' Bette and Walter Mathews and Vickie and Bill Mathews are this year's honorary chairmen.
The evening will include dinner on the great lawn, drinks, live jazz and live and silent auctions. Organizers say proceeds will go to help fulfill the mission to "Learn, Play, Grow."
Greening of the Garden Gala
Who: Botanical Garden of the Ozarks
What: Dinner, bar, music, auction
When: 6 p.m. May 3
Where: The garden in Fayetteville
Tickets: $125 or $1,200 for a table for 10
Information: (479) 750-2620 or bgozarks.org
The Botanical Garden is a public garden dedicated to education and environmental awareness and serves as a community destination for unique nature experiences.
The garden sees more than 18,000 schoolchildren each year through field trips, classes and programs about wild plants, animals in the garden and other garden-related topics.
Adult classes and workshops have covered such topics as mushroom cultivation, photography, qi gong, sustainability, rain barrels and propagation.
-- CARIN SCHOPPMEYER
NAN Our Town on 04/18/2019