The GCA Founders Fund was established in 1934 to support and encourage member clubs’ civic projects. This year, $30,000 will be awarded to the winning project, and $10,000 to each runner-up.
Roots Rising: A Food Truck and Financial Stability
Dunbar Garden Kitchen-Classroom
A Therapeutic Garden: Nurturing Plants and Lifting Spirits
The Founders Fund Award, established in 1934, was created by Mrs. Harold L. Pratt to honor the Garden Club of America’s twelve founding clubs and the memory of GCA’s first president, Mrs. J. Willis Martin, who served from 1913 to 1920.
The Botanical Arts Division of the SLGC May 19-20, 2018 Flower Show, “The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring, Tra La,” includes two Needle Arts Classes. The first is a 6” square insert for a shadow box, “Oh happy the flowers that blossom in June” from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, “Ruddigore.”
In an effort to become more efficient, cost conscious and to avoid envelope adventures we are going to distribute dues notices via email for the 2018/19 year. The notice will go out in April with payment due by June 30, 2018. Those few members without email will receive a notice via regular mail.
What is Aquafaba, you ask? Have you ever opened a can of garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas) and drained off that nasty, viscous liquid surrounding the beans? That stuff you poured away – it’s liquid gold!
What's the news? What did you hear over the garden gate? Notice any errors in the new Directory? Who heard what? Who has learned something to share with us? Who has a great new idea? Who loves to share the miracles of nature? It's all here!
THIS IS THE LAST POST OF THE FEBRUARY 2018 NEWSLETTER.
The deadline for Charitable Project proposals is February 9 and our meeting to review the proposals is March 6. We would love to have all donations by that date in order to know the full amount available for this year’s Charitable Project gifts.