Eat, drink and be merry! Enhanced events for all are happening at the Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern University in Fall 2024!
The Garden features over 11 acres of beautiful ladnscape on the early 20th century farmstead of Dan and Catharine Bland. It's is a lovely place to connect with nature and to gain knowledge and appreciation of the native plants of the southeastern coastal plain. The Garden offers woodland/walking trails, a landscape garden, Azalea collections, a butterfly garden, the Children's Garden, and a complex of 20th century farm buildings.
And this fall, it's also offering a bevy of exciting and educational events for all.
“Eat, drink and be merry -- plus learn, be inspired, motivated, and informed about the role of plants around you. That is our unspoken model as we begin to look forward towards the end of summer and the fall planting season,” said Dr. Todd Beasley, Garden Director. “We will celebrate the changing of seasons and the near end of the meteorological summer with a beer tasting and pig roast and the excitement of the upcoming ‘Gather and Grow’ sessions, bringing in the true story of plants and specific gateways into your life.”
As the summer days wind down, join the Garden for laidback evenings under the stars featuring “history, honey, sugar, bourbon, the Devil's Walkingstick and Hercules' Club. All strange plant concepts, but all are intertwined into our events from Hops and Hawgs, to the plant sale, and Gather & Grow,” concluded Beasley.
Check out a preview of upcoming events below.
Hops and Hawgs | A beer tasting and pig roasting!
- When: Thursday, August 22, 2024
- Time: 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
- Where: Heritage Pavilion at the Botanic Garden at GSU
- Music: Summer classics provided by Leo Dean
- Price: $45.00 ($50.00 at the door, if tickets are still available)
- Food and Drink: Bar-b-que and sides with a variety of beer
Gather and Grow | Presenter: Lance Durden, professor emeritus at Georgia Southern University
- Program: John Abbott, Pioneer Georgia Naturalist/Bugs and Host Plants
- When: Thursday, September 26, 2024
- Time: 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
- Where: Heritage Pavilion at the Botanic Garden at GSU
- Price: $20.00 (includes food and program); $15.00 for Garden members
Gather and Grow | Presenters: Randy and Trish Morton
- Program: Sugar Cane
- When: Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Where: Heritage Pavilion at the Botanic Garden at GSU
- Price: $20.00 (includes food and program); $15.00 for Garden members
Gather and Grow | Presenter: Ted Chewning
- Program: History of Jimmy Red Corn followed by a Bourbon tasting. Bourbon will be provided by Alexander Helms with High Wire Distilling.
- When: Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Where: Heritage Pavilion at Botanic Garden at GSU
- Price: TBD
Fall Members Party and Plant Sale
- When: Friday, October 25, 2024
- Time: 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
- Food, beverages, music, and plants - more to come!
- Must be a member at any Garden level to attend; purchase a membership here.
Fall Plant Sale
- When: Saturday, October 26-Sunday, October 27, 2024
- Where: Field at Botanic Garden at GSU
- Time: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Saturday; 12:00 p.m.- 4 p.m. Sunday
The Botanic Garden at Georgia Southern is located is located in the heart of Statesboro, Georgia, at 1503 Bland Avenue. For more information or to purchase tickets for events, visit the Garden website here.
