Days of nature-filled, playful childhoods, common when Laura and Greg Bird were children, are what the Birds dream the new Baker Martin Family Garden will offer. The Birds serve as co-chairs of the Family Garden Campaign and have contributed a leadership gift through the Bird Family Foundation.
“This is a place for the young and playful, and for our families. The ability to include parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents in the sensory experience of nature is restorative. Listening to flowing water, smelling the greenery, seeing what nature has to offer are great ways to provide a reset in our busy lives,” says Laura.
As past chair of the BRIT Board, Greg was involved with the merger of BRIT and the Garden, when the research institute took over garden management from the City of Fort Worth. The success of that merger gives Greg confidence that the organization is ready to create a world-class space for nature exploration and education.
“We have the vision, we have talented staff, and the City has put their trust in us to carry this project forward as our first of many improvements. All of these elements have aligned to allow us to create a family garden that is more than just a playground,” says Greg. “It will be a space for families in our community to build emotional connections to nature and to one another.”
