Club Projects
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
Community Links
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
