Village Institute for Sustainable Technologies & Agriculture

Back in the ’80s, this property at 13572 South Village Drive where VISTA Gardens is today was an abandoned water treatment plant and had...

Work is going well on the restoration. We continue to remove invasive plants, still focusing on Brazilian pepper. It's a big job, and...

On March 26, Susan Baxter Gibson and Jennifer Grebenschikoff visited the Academy at the Lakes to celebrate with the student who...

Sign a birthday card for Jane at VISTA's 10th Anniversary! “People frequently approach me with an anecdote about how Jane Goodall...

February 2024 Our work in the woodland area again this month focused on removing invasive plants, especially Brazilian pepper.  By the...

Recently VISTA Gardens were educated by Rutger Meyers of Chatfield Farms, affiliated with the Denver Botanical Gardens. The gardeners...

The VISTA Gardens AARP gardens continue to shine as they have now grown over 150 pounds of food that has been donated to the needy! Read...

January 2024 About a year ago, we started to recognize that there was a beautiful section on theVISTA property that included a cypress...

Many plants grown in the garden will be damaged at temperatures below freezing. Watch the weather forecast for temperatures at or below...

“The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.” Monty Don VISTA members shared...

32 members of our community gathered at VISTA Gardens Wednesday, October 25, to hear Bruce Turley and VISTA'S wildflower gardeners share...

VISTA Gardens is on the Homegrown National Park map, joining a conservation movement that inspires small changes in our own backyards to...

A Florida native plant that offers orange-red flowers throughout most of the year, Firebush is a large, soft-stemmed shrub that can reach...

In its continued effort to support and uplift the community, AARP® Florida sponsors two raised garden beds that produced 175 pounds of...

To weed nut sedge you must dig under sections and pull out the whole root structure. You cannot just pull out each weed individually...

by Janet Stanko with photo credit to Rick Jackson You might not know that VISTA Gardens is entirely off the energy grid. We have no...

Credit: Wilcox Nursery Red Maple trees are native throughout the eastern half of the United States. Each autumn the leaves of these trees...

Florida native plants support beneficial insect populations, and VISTA proudly has native plant gardens north, south, east and west of...

The Infrastructure Chair, Marty Kleiner, wants you to know that several different types of “tried and tested” timers resulted in quite a...