{"id":53973,"date":"2016-09-27T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=53973"},"modified":"2016-09-27T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T21:05:57","slug":"fiesta-de-flores-at-the-new-york-botanical-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/09\/around-the-garden\/fiesta-de-flores-at-the-new-york-botanical-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiesta de Flores at The New York Botanical Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don Eliseo Trinidad receives the community service award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last\u00a0Wednesday, September 21, NYBG celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month at our annual Fiesta de Flores event.<\/p>\n

Guests enjoyed tours of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the height of its fall bloom, while the historic Stone Mill offered\u00a0food and wine tastings, live fine art painting, floral arranging workshops, artisan vendors, musical entertainment, and a Bomba dance ensemble.<\/p>\n

The highlight of the day came when\u00a0Don Eliseo Trinidad was presented with this year’s community service award. As an NYBG community partner and the owner of La 21 Division, a botanica on the Grand Concourse, Don Eliseo was honored for his dedication and caring for the well-being of the Bronx community with medicinal plants. Ina Vandebroek, Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Economic Botany and Caribbean Program Director at NYBG, presented the award.
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