Civic Beautification

Library Park

• Maintenance and watering of the Butterfly Garden
• Maintenance of the Blue Star Marker, a National project

Maine Maritime Museum

• Planting and maintenance of the Ellena Sewall Historic Garden

Main Street Bath Flower Fund

• Supports with contributions

Woolwich Town Hall, Meetinghouse and History Museum

• Planting and maintenance

Camperships/Scholarships

• Support of the L.O.C.A.L. Garden education program for youth
• Scholarships for the Ferry Beach Ecology School
• Scholarship for the Merrymeeting Audubon Society
• Campership for the Pine Tree Society Summer Camp
• Support of the Bath Middle School (RSU 1) apple orchard

Garden Therapy

Oliver House

• Assistance with the vegetable and herb garden at a group home for teens and young adults

Bath Senior Center Legacy Garden

• A continuing renewal project

The Plant Home

• Large mass bulb planting in the Fall
• Train staff and volunteers to create a larger kitchen garden
• Guidance and help on spring work, i.e. pruning apple trees, creating cutting and perennial beds and clearing overgrown areas

Conservation

• Maintain plant identification markers on the Thorne Head Trail

Youth Activities

Patten Free Library

• Engage young learners to have fun listening to a garden-themed story and to apply learning with a gardening activity
• Maintenance of the Children’s Garden

Dike-Newell School

• Teach an understanding of planting seeds and the proper care of plants to 1st graders
• Read a story in a classroom setting to review some aspect of gardening
• Have students pot marigolds indoors and plant sunflower seeds in raised beds
• Kindergarten Art Show by Bath and Woolwich kindergarteners of flower art to be displayed at the BGC Annual Plant Sale, weather-dependent

New and Collaborative Projects

Sagadahoc Preservation, Inc.

• Flower arrangements for the annual House Tour
• Flower arrangements for the celebration of the completion of the new pool and landscaping in Library Park for The Spirit of the Sea