Rooting Stations

Our Rooting Stations exhibit installed in the garden hosts mindful practices that users can utilize year-round to cultivate a better day for themselves while connecting with nature. We invite users to engage with various content through QR codes and in-person formats. This exhibit creates a relationship across disciplines which all have an underlying association to wellbeing. Contributors of the rooting stations are all associated with MSU and help sustain nurturing content. This experience gives contributors opportunities to share their talents and build their professional portfolio while expanding the practice of wellbeing.  

This exhibit started in 2023 and is here to stay. We invite students annually to share their work, allowing them to be a part of our wellbeing initiative. We recognize that we serve a large and diverse community, therefore we aim to represent different opportunities to connect people with nature as well as their wellbeing. Our rooting station content can be accessed at several points within the garden as well as here on our website. We encourage you to explore in whatever way is accessible to you.

For more rooting station content, visit our Rooting Stations Archive.
If you have feedback and or ideas on a new or previous rooting station let us know at wjbeal@msu.edu.

We would like to thank Brenda J. Sanborn for providing her graphic design artistry and Michigan Imagery for the construction and installation of our rooting stations.

Photo courtesy of Maileen Bugnaski