Horticulture

IT’S ELEMENTARY

Full disclosure: This article is about a garden the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden made as part of a community project in conjunction with the Cincinnati Reds and its partners. I’ll try to be objective. Even if I’m not, I think you’ll understand what horticulture did for a community, and what such efforts can do for horticulture.

Since 2009, the Reds Community Fund, a nonprofit affiliate of the baseball organization, has worked with other prominent local businesses and nonprofits on a service project called Community Makeover. In this annual event, one community in Greater Cincinnati

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