Are you curious about foraging for food, or would you like to have fun with fungi? Check out the new Smithsonian Gardens exhibition, Growing Tomorrow, featuring nine individual exhibits throughout the gardens around the National Mall. The exhibition explores the common bonds we share with gardens and the natural world while highlighting ways that we can grow a better future.

Join Smithsonian Gardens staff Rebecca Martin, associate director of collections, programs, and engagement; Virginia Thaxton, interior horticulturist; and Lauren Brandes, landscape architect, along with Smithsonian Folklife Festival technical director Tyler Nelson to explore the process of Growing Tomorrow, focusing on understanding the full scope of planning an exhibition spanning the National Mall—from early concepts to coordination with stakeholders and logistical constraints.