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National Garden Clubs, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] [2] [3] It consists of dozens of local branches, in nearly every state in the US and has about 190,000 members as of 2021. [4] [5] Its stated mission is "to promote the love of gardening, floral design, and civic and environmental ...
Get a free issue of Gardening How-To magazine from the National Home Gardening Club when you sign up for a free trial club membership, which will cost $1 a month when the trial ends. You can ...
It was followed in 1929 by the National Council of State Garden Clubs, now National Garden Clubs [9] By the 1930s, local garden clubs had formed in communities throughout the United States. Initially a women's activity, over time the garden club movement also engaged men, leading in 1932 to the establishment of the Men's Garden Clubs of America ...
The Garden Club of America is a nonprofit organization made up of around 18,000 club members and 200 local garden clubs around the United States. Founded in 1913, by Elizabeth Price Martin and Ernestine Abercrombie Goodman, [1] [2] it promotes the recording and enjoyment of American gardens as well as conservation and horticulture.
Youth Gardening provides national funding for gardening projects that engage youth. Scholarships [note 6] of $1,000 are awarded annually to horticulture students based on local club applications. Photography Contest [note 7] rewards members by publishing their photographs in the Gardener's Calendar, and by displaying them on the Internet. They ...
Life is good. Mary Lee Minor is a member of the Earth, Wind and Flowers Garden Club, an accredited master gardener, a flower show judge for the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs and a former sixth ...
He spoke at many gardening club meetings and nursery seminars. Among the clubs Wilson was involved with was the Foothill Men's Garden Club, which he co-founded in 1962. The club, which encompasses Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, raises money to preserve the natural environment through the sales of members' homegrown products in an annual ...
Home Demonstration Clubs (also known as homemaker clubs, home bureaus or home adviser groups) were a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension Service. Their goal was to teach farm women in rural America better methods for getting their work done, in areas such as gardening , canning , nutrition , and sewing , and to ...