News and Events
Volunteer Workday
Join us on Saturday, October 4th to help us relocate existing plants and plant new arrivals! We will end the morning with pizza for lunch.
Volunteer Workday
Help us remove invasive honeysuckle and other vines! Pizza will be provided afterwards.
Volunteer Workday
Come help us remove English ivy from trees! We’ll also mulch around the trees we’ve freed from the ivy. If you don’t like tackling vines, help us finish putting in brick edging around garden beds. The bricks were salvaged from the Stowe House restoration and they complement the gardens beautifully, while also keeping the mulch in the beds when we water. As always, stay for pizza!
Volunteer Workday
Come join us on Saturday, August 23 to plant the first bulbs for next spring at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House! We've got 300 native camassias that need to go in the ground. We'll also pull some invasive vines if we have time. Pizza to follow!
Fiber Sculpture Exhibit
Through the end of August, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Walnut Hills features the “Invasive Plant Sculpture Garden,” an outdoor art installation created by students in Rachel Linnemann’s fiber sculpture course at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. Drawing inspiration from the Stowe House’s history, architecture, and plant life, the students have reimagined invasive plant species once admired by Harriet Beecher Stowe as striking fiber sculptures. Set within a landscape now being restored with native species, as well as in the House's rotating indoor exhibit space, the show invites visitors to reflect on the ways plants—both chosen and removed—shape our environment and our histories. Developed in partnership with Cincinnati Parks and the Stowe Garden Project, the project shows how art, history, and environmental stewardship can come together to transform public space. Photo: Quilt Codes & Botanicals, by Jade Salyers
Invasive Plant Sculpture Garden Opening
Invasive Plant Sculpture Garden
A pop-up exhibit in Stowe Park
Opening Reception: Harriet Beecher Stowe House, 5:00-7:00
2950 Gilbert Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45206
Parking: the Stowe House lot is small, but there’s lot of free parking on Foraker Ave. Please leave spaces in the parking lot for those who need accessible parking.
Project
Rooted in a collaboration between UC's College of Arts & Sciences, the Department of History, and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, the Stowe Garden Project brings together art, ecology, and local history to transform the historic Stowe House grounds in Walnut Hills. As part of this work, students from DAAP are taking a unique fiber sculpture course taught by faculty member Rachel Linnemann. In the class, students are designing outdoor fiber sculptures that tell the complex story of Cincinnati’s plants — past and present — drawing inspiration from the site’s history, architecture, evolving landscape, and the symbolic nature of the plants once grown there.
Many of the plants historically associated with the Stowe House, including species admired by Harriet Beecher Stowe herself, are now considered invasive and can no longer be grown on-site. Instead of planting them, Linnemann’s students are giving these plants new life in a creative way: by crafting large-scale fiber sculptures that represent the invasive species as well as the history of this property. This body of work explores the intersection of art, history, and environmentalism. We invite viewers to reflect on personal and public histories, as well as the ecological and symbolic nature of the property.
This pop-up “Invasive Plant Sculpture Garden,” set within a landscape that volunteers are in the process of restoring with native species, invites visitors to reflect on how the plants we choose—and remove—shape our shared environment. Developed through a partnership among the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Cincinnati Parks, and the University of Cincinnati, the Stowe Garden Project is brought together by UC History professor Kate Sorrels, who is working with students, faculty, and community partners to transform the historic grounds into a vibrant neighborhood greenspace and outdoor classroom. Together, they are showing how the arts and the humanities can help us reimagine public spaces for learning, stewardship, and connection.
Native Wildflower Garden Workday
The Stowe Park Advisory Council launched efforts in 2025 to support the gardens and grounds of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. Plans include improving gardens by removing invasive species, planting natives and installing educational signage. The CPAC is working in collaboration with the Harriet Beecher Stowe House leadership.
2950 Gilbert Ave, Cincinnati OH 45206
Parking: The parking lot is very small—please leave spots for visitors who need accessible parking. There’s plenty of free street parking on Foraker Ave.
For more information about Stowe Park CPAC, please contact Chris Homan
Stowe Park CPAC Meeting Schedule- Click here to see the monthly meeting schedule.
If you are interested in participating in Stowe Park Workdays but do not have a Better Impact account, please use this registration form for "One-Time" Registration:
https://cincinnatiparks.regfox.com/stowe-park-cpac-
UC students can register here:
Stow Park Gardening and Invasive Removal | Center for Community Engagement