HBGF provides updates on the progress of building a world-class botanical garden for the Northern region along with related Special Events through this website. Please email dianna@hbgf.org or call 707-442-5139 for further information.

The Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation was organized by a small group of Volunteers in 1991. The goal was to create an educational botanical garden in for the Northern region. From this small core of under ten people, the HBGF has grown to over 1,000 individual, family and business members. Thousands of people attend the organization's annual educational and special events.

From the initial desire to have several small botanical gardens in the Humboldt Region, the vision grew to encompass the passionate belief that the area had an opportunity to develop a world-class botanical garden. This belief was based on the unique HBGF garden site, the area's climate, which is on the edge between two worlds - Mediterranean and the Pacific Marine - that allows for very diverse groups of plants to thrive, and the presence of plant species unique to the region.

The not-for-profit Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation was incorporated in the State of California on January 27, 1992 as a 501(c)(3) public benefit, charitable corporation. The HBGF's mission is to:
             Establish and promote an enjoyable and educational botanical garden accessible to everyone in or near Humboldt County and Northwestern California.
             Work with primary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, and others to promote the study, use and preservation of native and other plants.
             Promote the use of botanical gardens by local garden clubs, botanical groups and others for developing botanical displays of special interest and for conducting botanical or horticultural programs approved by the Foundation.

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Web Editor:  Dianna Thiel

The HBGF's 2008 Board are a new and exciting group ready to meet n' greet each HBGF member-please feel free to call and get to know us! Together we can realize the dream of a world-class botanical garden!                                                                                 Photo: DThiel                                                 

Meet artist/sculptor Peter Santino near completion on a four-year project: a 100-foot earthwork, a spiral ziggurat "All Happy Now." Peter was joined by family, friends and many HBGF volunteer members and supporters in bringing this part of the Garden to life!

                                                                                                                     Photo: JWalsh

Aerial of Santino's earthwork by Director-at-Large, Dave Kenworthy taken from his aerial glider this spring. Please see Special Events for detials on grand opening!                                           Photo: JWalsh

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