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Cassie Banning is the Director of Farm & Gardens at the Mount Desert Land & Garden Preserve in Seal Harbor, Maine. The Preserve offers serenity across 1,400 acres of astonishingly beautiful natural lands and three breathtaking historic pleasure gardens adjacent to Acadia National Park. Cassie oversees the high horticultural standards across the Preserve's gardens, each of which is a unique work of art that reinforces a strong sense of place and contributes to the wonder of coastal Maine. The crown jewel of the Preserve is the renowned Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, designed as a collaboration between Abby Rockefeller and Beatrix Farrand, and is among Farrand's most exceptional accomplishments.
Cassie moved to Maine from the clay soils of Indiana, where she was the Horticulture Manager at Minnetrista, a history museum in East Central Indiana, for nine years. Cassie attended the New York Botanical Garden's School of Professional Horticulture and received her B.S. in Horticulture from Cornell University. Early in her career, Cassie interned at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in Fort Bragg, California and the Lyon Arboretum in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is a contributor to the book The Rockefeller Family Gardens: An American Legacy.
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