Jay Estate Garden Tours

The award-winning Jay Estate Gardens reimagined by Thomas Woltz and Nelson Byrd Woltz are our newest, most dynamic classrooms. Apart from their impact as hands-on laboratories to study the natural sciences, the gardens also serve as a living tableau – a botanical backdrop – against which the resilient narratives of all the families, owners, and servants, free and enslaved, who lived and worked on this site are being explored. Stop by any time for a tour or a stroll through on your own! Bring binoculars and log your bird sightings on E-Bird. Please say hello to our Director of Horticulture and Garden Education, Lucia Maestro. For volunteer opportunities, email Lucia Maestro at [email protected]