Welcome to the 3rd month of 2025, dear friends of The Green Farmacy Garden! I hope you’ve been soaking up sunlight as abundant as we’ve enjoyed here recently, and managed to take cheer in plants around you preparing to Spring into their next growing season. Scroll down for tastes of the earliest signs of life here at the Garden, and visit our Public Events page for upcoming opportunities to see what’s growin’-on for yourself!

The Community Ecology Institute just completed our 2024 impact report, and we’re very proud of all we accomplished for and with our community last year! You’ll find The Green Farmacy Garden highlighted on page 16, and I invite you to look through the entire report and celebrate the whole of our collective impacts. Perhaps there’s a part of CEI’s work you’re not yet familiar with, that you and your loved ones can connect with in 2025? We know that our work to cultivate community where people and nature thrive together is more important than ever, and we’re grateful for the privilege of sharing another year with you!

Above, the first Hellebores (Helleborus orientalis) bloom dramatically (top) in late February, while Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) continue to riot (bottom).

Images from the woods below, clockwise from top left and right, respectively: purple and gold crocus (Crocus sp.); a honeybee (Apis mellifera) positively glows, covered in Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) pollen; Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis).

Animal signs abound in late February. Below, clockwise from top left: Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) feather; chomped leaves of Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis) in Terrace A; yellow-shafted Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) wing feather; White-Tailed Deer? (Odocoileus virginiana) hair strewn in a woodland path.

As always, you can explore CEI’s core Programs and full event calendar on the website.

Wishing you sunshine, connection, and cheer! -Veri for The Green Farmacy Garden team

All photos courtesy of Veri Tas.