Jennifer Blackwell & Maeve Turner

Teaches at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Jenny Blackwell is curator of the Discovery Garden and Early Spring Garden. Originally from Minnesota, Jenny didn't really get bitten by the horticulture bug until she moved to New York City in 2005. 

After working as an intern at BBG and receiving a Certificate in Horticulture in 2008, she gardened with the compost tea masters at Battery Park City Parks Conservancy before serving as project manager for BBG's NYC Compost Project for five years. 

She joined BBG's Horticulture staff in 2014. Jenny is passionate about ecology and soil, and her favorite ecosystem in the Discovery Garden is the meadow. 

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Maeve Turner's position as curator of the Herb Garden represents her return to BBG, after an earlier stint in 2007 as a Horticulture intern. In between, she worked for a private gardening company and for five years as a gardener at the High Line. 

Maeve credits her two years after college working at Morning Glory Farm, on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with giving her a fondness for growing vegetables and fruits.