Join the Japanese Garden CommunityNAJGA consists of members from all over the globe and is made up of Individuals, Businesses and Organizations. We offer membership levels for each of these categories with select benefits to better serve our members. Your...
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Welcome to the first post in our new blog series, NAJGA Visits. The NAJGA community includes over 250 Japanese-style gardens in North America. In addition to just wanting to spend as much time as possible in Japanese gardens, perhaps like you, we experience and...
1.Introduce yourself. What is your name, school, major, and plans for after graduation? My name is Olivia Smith, and I am currently a senior at Grand Valley State University studying Natural Resources Management. This spring, I will be graduating and moving to...
by Dale Seivert 2019 is the 50th year of gardening in my one-acre property near Waukesha, Wisconsin. It is 150 feet wide by 300 feet deep, and the property rises about 20 feet from the front to the back right. I have only two small lawns, about 8000 square feet in...
Leslie Buck, author of Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto, interviewed by Kristin Faurest of the Portland Japanese Garden’s International Japanese Garden Training Center.
The Second World War had begun, and Japan was experiencing material shortages of just about everything, including food. But as children we
had no awareness of these things. We grew up playing in nature. We had no commercially manufactured toys. Instead, we explored the surrounding forests and valleys.
The gardens were created by Adachi museum founder Adachi Zenko, with the belief of “the garden is also a picture”.
