Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens

10/08/2026

Acadia University staff and students have planted thousands of trees this autumn on our Woodland Trails thanks to Clean Foundation Thriving Forests program. 🌲 🌳

09/29/2026

We love it when Acadia University faculty enlist the help of the trees for their teachings! 🌳

09/09/2026

Happy first day of classes, Acadia University students! We are looking forward to seeing you learn outdoors at the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens and along the Acadia Woodland Trails. There are several beautiful spots to study amongst plants on campus. Which one is your favorite? 🌱

09/02/2026

🐝 There are a few spots left for our upcoming September Bee Walk! Join us at the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens to learn about the fascinating lives of native bees. Secure your spot by sending us an email at: [email protected] or calling us at: (902) 585-1917 🐝

08/23/2026

Good luck in your studies at Acadia University this fall Liv. We so loved having you tend to the plants and people in the garden this summer.

Meet Livia Dewar (she/her)! 🌿

As a Clean Leadership intern with Acadia University at the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre's Botanical Garden, Livia is helping grow and expand the Wabanaki Medicine Garden, a space that showcases traditional healing plants native to the Wabanaki forest.

From leading public tours and creating educational signage to collecting seeds, planting native species and removing invasive plants, Livia's work is helping preserve ecological knowledge while supporting biodiversity and community learning.

Learn more about the Clean Leadership Internship Program: https://cleanfoundation.ca/nscleanleadership/

Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens
Acadia University

08/07/2026

Always a pleasure to host Ramblewood Herbals. Benna Keoghoe, Registered Herbal Practitioner. There's still space left in their herbal exploration experience this Sunday! See link below.

I had the pleasure of hosting some folks from the Nova Scotia Teachers Union this Wednesday Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens. It was HOT, but thanks to the shade of a beautiful oak and the stone archway entrance, we had a lovely time.
Some plants we shared time with: partridgeberry, blue vervain, blueberry, goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, yarrow, plantain and marshmallow.

There's one more opportunity to join me in the gardens this August and it's coming up on Sunday, from 10 am-1:30pm. We will walk the grounds of the gardens, meeting a few of the abundant plant species there, break for a local and herbal inspired snack, and complete our time creating herbal oxymels under the beautiful oak shade next to the medicinal gardens. Here's where to book: https://botanicalmedicineintheannapolisvalley.rezgo.com/details/413214/botanical-medicine-in-the-annapolis-valley-harriet-irving-botanical-gardens

If you are doing the Ecology Action Centre Hike-A-Thon, there is a 30% off discount code available to you and the time we spend together can be counted towards your goal. If you aren't signed up the Hike-A-Thon fundraiser yet, there is still time! Check this out here: https://ecologyaction.ca/hike-a-thon

Happy Peak Summer!

07/20/2026

It has been such a pleasure hosting Brooklyn Itturiligaq from Nunavut here at the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens for the past 4 weeks through Northern Youth Abroad. Qujannamiik Brooklyn. Safe travels home. Maybe we'll see you back one day at Acadia University!

07/16/2026

🐝 We are looking forward to receiving Terranaut Club participants at the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens tomorrow as part of their 'The Buzz About Bees' Junior Field Trip. There are a few spots left; book yours today and see you soon!

Join us for a day of learning ‘what’s the buzz about bees?’, or why bees are so amazing and important to our environment! We’ll paint pro-pollinator garden signs, learn from bee and pollinator scientists at Acadia and watch them at work, tour the KC Irving Environmental Science Centre and explore the botanical gardens, make seed bombs to bring home to your garden, and learn how to identify local bee species! 🐝

Details:
- Friday, July 17th
- 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
- At Acadia University in Wolfville
- For girls and gender diverse youth ages 9-12
- Pay-what-you-can

Learn more and register through the link in our bio!

07/14/2026

We're grateful to have received Clean Foundation internship funding to support hiring a fabulous Acadia University co-op student Liv Dewar this summer to work in the Gardens. The Clean crew stopped in to smell the roses last week! 🌹

07/10/2026

Interested in learning how we can co-exist with ticks in Nova Scotia? Join Blomidon Naturalists Society and Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens for an educational tick talk followed by Q&A and tick demonstrations with researchers from Acadia University. Kids welcome!

Follow link to register: https://blomidonnaturalists.ca/event/tick-fun-and-fears/

Dr. Laura Ferguson is an integrative biologist interested in how host-microbe interactions shape insect resilience in our changing world. She is an Assistant Professor at Acadia University