One of the things I like most about being a docent at the Botanic Garden is General Grounds. That's simply wandering around the garden and interacting with the visitors, answering their questions.
General Grounds has been shut down due to Covid-19 restrictions since last spring. I've been in the garden since then, but only as a BioPark Society employee, the plant label guy. Now, coming up on the 1 year anniversary of the Governor's order to close down, the BioPark has resumed General Grounds.
There was a training package I had to read online and then a trivial quiz to take. I expect to hear from garden education staff that I'm cleared for duty in a day or so.
With my first dose of the Moderna vaccine under my belt and in my arm, I'm looking forward to (a) the second dose and (b) the purported 95% protection afforded by about two weeks later. That means by the first of April, I should be as good as I can be for getting back to docent duty.
And along with General Grounds, I should be good to go with the Nature's Notebook group at the same time. That will have me back in the swing of things just as the garden starts to bust out with the big flush of blooms. Crab apples and cherry blossoms typically start to pop from mid-March to early April.
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