For alligators, maybe take a day trip to Giverny? I'm just waiting for a secret stash of Monets on the subject to be revealed!

Yes!

"It also allowed him time to make his own work, which he did in a storage space behind his desk that he turned into a studio."
5/5

"He watered and raked the soil, plucking the odd weed or mushroom. (The mushrooms were edible, and delicious, by Mr. Dilworth’s account.) The work allowed him, he said, 'to settle into the art world in a way that was personal and comfortable and meaningful.'"
4/5

"The Earth Room had a few caretakers before Mr. Dilworth took it on in 1989. But no one was as committed to the mission as he was: He considered the job as urgent as that of a lighthouse keeper."
3/5

I love this place and haven't visited in so long, and somehow I didn't know much about Dilworth's story — how this one artist devoted himself to maintaining the Earth Room and made it part of his life's work:
2/5