Take a seat; rest a while; enjoy the fruits of your labor. For local school children and their families, it is spring break week! Parks are such great public spaces to enjoy on a nice day. Here we see seating at Gateway Gardens that will surely put a smile on your face as you sit back and admire the rest of the garden. The fruit seats are the artwork of local Greensboro artists Ernest and Lois Rich. They also developed many of the other pieces for the park. 

We featured Gateway Gardens on Monday (here) but are showing you a another image because we’re so thrilled to have this community resource. Let’s hope the people of Greensboro will do as much as they can to support Greensboro Beautiful and Parks and Recreation in their vision for the park. As one example, the visitors’ center is not yet built which makes educational outreach, storage, and bathroom breaks a challenge! If you want to see a list of all the artwork as well as the opportunities to donate, look here. Last time we checked, only one of the three fruit/vegetable seats had been “sold.” Purchasing a personalized 4×8 inch brick paver ($100), is another way to lend your name to this piece of Greensboro history here. We don’t usually solicit; however, when it is for our city, we can’t resist!

Don’t you expect to see James from Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach to walk by at any minute?

Start your day at Gateway Gardens and then head over to UNCG for their Sustainable Earth Day Celebration from 10:30- 4:00 pm at College Avenue and Faust Park.