ERIKA RUMBLEY

Co-Founder and Director of The New Garden Society

March 13, 2023 | 7 PM EST

Erika Rumbley is a Co-Founder and Director of The New Garden Society (TNGS), an organization dedicated to training incarcerated students in the art and science of plants. For over a decade, she has gardened alongside students in Greater Boston prison yards on Monday afternoons. Beyond TNGS, Erika serves as the Director of Horticulture at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She works with a team of 7 horticulturists to care for the Gardner’s living collection and create perpetually blooming displays in the art museum’s central atrium. A greenhouse grower by trade, Erika is passionate about broadening access to the gifts of the garden and the skills for ecologically sound growing.