Therapy Garden at the Somerset County Adult Day Care Center, Bridgewater, NJ
Club member, Beth Spinelli (club historian and membership chair), took on a major initiative in 2019 to contact the Adult Day Care management to offer to revitalize a neglected garden and transform it into a beautiful therapy garden for seniors at the Center. Each year since, Bridgewater Garden Club members plant and maintain this garden throughout the growing season.
Summer 2024 - Therapy Garden photos.
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Youth Environmental Education – Martin Luther King Youth Center
In 2024, Sandra Rhue, (President of BGC 2022-2024) began an initiative to provide gardening and the science of horticulture related projects to the children who attend the MLK Youth Center after school program. The BGC projects are offered monthly during the school year and were provided bimonthly during the summer 0f 2024 camp sessions. BGC pays 100% for all of the project materials that they use at the Martin Luther King Youth Center.
BGC members prepared for a youth gardening project.
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Annual December event - Holiday Boxwood Tree Fundraiser.
Our Club’s largest fundraiser and annual tradition, promoted for the last 40+ years, has been supported and anticipated by the Bridgewater community each year. Our boxwood trees, which are made by hand, and beautifully decorated, enhance and become the focal point of our community’s holiday decorations.
Team work of BGC members, building 'boxwood trees' for December 2023 fundraiser.
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Somerset County Vocational Technical High School
Bridgewater Garden Club awards annual achievement scholarships to graduating senior ($500 to two students) planning to study in higher education and continuing in an horticultural field.
Additionally, in 2024, BGC donated $1,000 towards tree planting in Colonial Park,Somerset County and assisted the rangers and students with tree saplings.
BGC members, planting trees in Colonial Park, spring 2024.
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