Mural Park at West Anniston Gateway, in partnership with CFNEA

About this Sacred Place Nestled within the city of Anniston resides the West Fifteenth Street Historic District—a once-thriving commercial and social center for African Americans during an era of deep segregation. During this time, the city offered everything its residents needed, and the beautiful mural in this quarter-acre Sacred Place was painted to show just…

UPenn Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Stoner Courtyard

About this Sacred Place Stoner Courtyard – In 1998, The Stoner Courtyard was part of the “Campaign for the East Wing”, the renovation plans for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Before renovation, the courtyard was claimed by parked cars and transient traffic, not allowing much pedestrian traffic to enjoy the outdoor…

Naval Cemetery Landscape

About this Sacred Place The Sacred Place at the Naval Cemetery Landscape was created as part of The Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, a much larger plan to transform unused space around Brooklyn Navy Yard into lush waterfront, and was a National Nature Sacred Awards grantee. Covering more than 1.5 acres, the space is the site of…

Butterfly Garden & Overlook

About this Sacred Place In May 2011, an EF5, mile-wide, multi-vortex tornado chewed through a large swath of Joplin, MO. In just 38 minutes, the tornado claimed 161 lives, injured 1150 others; it caused billions of dollars in damages and left thousands of trees decimated, uprooted or maimed. Parts of the community were utterly devastated….

Beach 41st Street Gardens

About this Sacred Place The Sacred Place at Beach 41st Street Houses in New York is one of the many community gardens within the Nature Sacred Network. It had been a vital part of the community for more than two decades when it was suddenly destroyed in 2012, when Hurricane Sandy struck and devastated much…

Central Park Conservancy

About this Sacred Place Tucked inside the Park at West 77th Street is a beautiful, secluded and contemplative setting. It has extraordinary vistas of the Manhattan skyline to the South, and in the Ramble Woodlands to the East is the Ladies Pavilion in Central Park. The Ladies Pavilion Landscape was in need of refurbishment from…

Terrace Garden at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center

About this Sacred Place The 6500 square foot suspended green space is connected to the Family Birth Center as well as the Cardiovascular ICU and family waiting rooms; and is accessible round-the-clock to all hospital patients, visitors and employees. It was designed to accommodate a wide range of physical conditions and abilities and needs. Among…

Fello Annapolis

About this Sacred Place Fello has created a decorative MaryLandscapes Sensory Garden designed for people with disabilities, their families and the Annapolis community. The Fello Annapolis property was transformed from a useless junk yard of old tires, concrete, blacktop, broken bottles, non-native trees and invasive plants, into a beautiful native garden. This garden has become…

Annapolis Maritime Museum Garden

Nature Sacred’s Sacred Place at the Annapolis Maritime Museum is the focal point for morning walks with kids and dogs, concerts, family picnics, and, at the spring equinox, the place where sailors gather from all over to burn their socks. This quirky rite of spring is just one indication of what makes this site so unique….