Projects

Each year we undertake many different projects to promote our club's objectives.

PLEASE NOTE: Projects that are more involved have a web page dedicated to that project. They are identified by a link with an underline in their text title and their headings are in GREEN. Our projects include:

Blue Star Memorial

Our Blue Star Memorial committee maintains and supports the Blue Star Memorial located at The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park.

Civic Beautification

This committee is busy planning, designing and planting the Logo Garden in the Traverse City Open Space. They also locate and acknowledge a large and small business that has exemplary flower beds in their landscaping.

Commemoration of Arbor Day

We plant trees with local school children and teach an educational lesson to the class(es) involved in the planting.

Garden Walk

This committee recruits a set of sponsors from the business community and selects homes to be on the garden walk. This event is usually held on the third Thursday of July. We will be having a garden walk this year.

Horticultural and Environmental concerns

We provide programs or field trips on ways to promote horticultural knowledge and membership participation. We also provide ongoing support to the Traverse City Botanic Garden and the Blue Star Memorial project.

Local Club Projects/Grants:

These projects vary from year to year but our goal is to encourage the development of local educational youth programs, preschool educational programs, and providing scholarships for students from the Traverse City Agri-Science program to attend the Horticulture Dept. State Convention at MSU.

MGC & NGC Projects

We support the MI Garden Clubs, Inc. "POLLINATOR GARDENS" project to promote awareness of the importance of all pollinators, including the Black Swallowtail butterfly; the NGC "Penny for Pines" project, which raises funds for reforestation; and promoting NGC's essay contest for local high school students and The Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl project for elementary students.

Michigan Garden Club Schools:

In order to help our members learn more by continuing their gardening education, we provide qualifying members' tuition to help defray the costs of attending the MGC classes.

Youth Gardening

Utilizing our Children's Sensory Garden (CSG) and Our Giving Garden, our club will be better able to serve the youth in our community by providing more educational opportunities. These include club member mentors teaching about planting, maintaining, and harvesting produce and donating it to the local community food banks, teaching classes on youth environmental topics, NGC programs, and much more,