Conservation

Framingham Garden Club Gives Back

The Framingham Garden Club is honored to participate in a meaningful and also practical conservation project that’s as simple as collecting pennies.

At every FGC meeting or event, we gather up whatever spare pennies we have on us. The collection grows surprisingly fast, and every time the total reaches $68.00 the bank is gladly donated to the wonderful Penny Pine program.

The Penny Pine program is a conservation program of the National Garden Club and is administered locally by the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts. Money collected from donors, such as FGC, goes toward the costs of replanting trees indigenous to an area damaged by fire or by other natural catastrophe.…

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Garden Club Gives Gifts to Children

The Framingham Garden Club, Inc. presented three copies of The Frightened Frog, by Brenda Moor and Jean Ohlmann to the Children’s Department of the Framingham Public Library on October 12, 2016.
FGC members at FPL 101216
From left to right: FPL Children’s Specialist Danielle Cersosimo, Framingham Garden Club members Natalie Mullen, Nancy Martin, Ruth Evans, Betsy Swartz, Estelle Gooltz, and FPL Assistant Director Lena Kilburn.

Published by the National Garden Clubs, Inc., the colorfully illustrated environmental tale is written from a frog’s point of view and encourages young readers to take good care of the environment. The book includes introductory pages for parents and educators, a glossary of terms, fun frog facts, and a list of how frog sounds are spoken in languages around the world.…

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