Welcome to the Greenfield Garden Club - 
Serving all of Franklin County, Massachusetts, and beyond. Please join us at our next meeting, and bring a friend!

May 12th 5:30pm

Get to know your local farm: a visit to Nina Keller's Farm in Wendell
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Carpool 5:00pm - carpool leaves from Cherry Rum, Greenfield, near the "bank-in-the-box."
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I met Nina last week at the Energy Park where the GGC had talked itself into having a booth at the Earth Day event. We chatted. She is very unassuming, gracious, and vibrant. We talked about the fact that you don’t have to live in Greenfield to be a member of the club. I said as a matter of fact, we are going to see a garden in Wendell in August. Next thing you know, I have convinced her to let us come over to see her place. When I Googled her for an address, I discovered that she is practically gardening gardening royalty in these parts! (See page 4 of the May GGC newsletter for a 2017 article in the Mount Grace Land Trust newsletter). She grows perennials, ground covers, bulbs, herbs, culinary plants, nuts, fruits, berries, shrubs, wild plants, tinctures and salves, greenhouse plants, and more.

RSVP to the club email so we have an idea about the numbers, and can supply you with her directions.
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Questions? Contact us at: greenfieldgardenclub@yahoo.com
 
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A frequent visitor to our hemlocks this spring!
Is it time to renew your membership to the club? Memberships also make a thoughtful gift. The Greenfield Garden Club is always accepting new members. Have you attended a meeting recently? Will you bring a friend to the next meeting? Memberships are $20 per person or $25 for a household. Please send your membership check to Club Treasurer Joanne Burns, 14 Freeman Dr, Greenfield, MA 01301. You will receive a membership card that you can present at select local businesses for a 10 percent discount. We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting!

​​As always, please email the club with any questions: greenfieldgardenclub@yahoo.com ​

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2022 Schedule of Monthly Meetings and Events of Interest to Members
Know of an event that should be on our calendar but isn't? Email the club!!​

(Club events are in black; events of interest are in green italics.)
 
February 12 - March 20 "Prismatic" at Tower Hill Botanic Garden - discover dazzling plant and art displays!

February 19 - 10AM Berkshire Botanical Winter Lecture: "The Eye of the Beholder: Is it Messy, or an Acquired Taste?" (fee)

February 24-27, 2022 - 40th Annual CT Flower & Garden Show at CT Convention Center, Hartford, CT.

February 26-27: New England Camellia Society display - Tower Hill

​March 3-13 - Berkshire Botanical Bulb Show Daily 9-4.

March 20 1:00 pm-3:00 pm Annual Meeting and the first day of spring! Speaker: Dan Bensonoff

March 3rd 4:15pm Smith Bulb Show Virtual Lecture. Pre-reg required. Zoom. Registration is open NOW.

March 5-20 - Smith College Spring Bulb Show. Virtual, and possibly in-person in 2022

March 7-18 2022 - 50th Annual Spring Flower Show - "Brighter Days" Mount Holyoke College Spring Flower Show  Only open to current MHC students, staff and faculty this year.

​March 25-27, 2022 - Capital Region Flower & Garden Expo (formerly the Capital ​District Garden and Flower Show) Troy, NY.

2022 dates unknown for the  Boston Flower Show. The Seaport World Trade Center is being redeveloped into office and retail space. The future of the event is uncertain.

April 30 - May 1 Baystate African Violet Society Show and Sale at Tower Hill Botanic Garden

April 7-10: 9th Annual Festival of Flowers, Springfield Museums.

April 21 5:30 pm - Tour/walk and talk at Laurenitis Farm in Sunderland, with an option to buy plants.

May 1  8:00am-12:30pm. Opening Day for the Greenfield Farmers Market at Court Square. 

May 2 9am -5pm. Berkshire Botanical Roy Boutard Day. Start of the 87th Season for Berkshire Botanical Gardens.

May 6-7  Berkshire Botanical 45th Annual Plant Sale 10-3

May 8  Lilac Sunday at Arnold Arboretum. Lilac bloom from late April - mid/late May. They have 400 varieties of lilacs.

May - Trip to Wendell and Nina Keller's farm.

The Extravaganza would have been May 28, 2022 - 8:30 AM-12:30 PM at the John Zon Community Center, corner of Davis and Pleasant St reets in Greenfield, BUT, we are sadly not holding it this year due to the arrival of the Asian Jumping Worm.

June 11-19 Philadelphia Flower Show. After a successful move outdoors to FDR Park, they are returning in 2022 with "In Full Bloom."

June 26, Saturday - hoping to carpool to the Naumkeag estate in Stockbridge for a private tour.

June 26 & 27 - 10 - 4 daily; 17th Annual Lavender Festival, Johnson Hill Farm. (CANCELLED.)

July 9/10 - GARDEN TOUR!

July 9 & 10 - 9 to 4 -  Silver Gardens Daylily and Arts Festival. 23 Pickett Lane, Greenfield. Thousands of daylilies to choose from!

July 9 &B 10, 2022 - Westminster Cares Open Garden Day Gardens of Gordon and Mary Hayward open

August 6-8 NOFA Summer Conference, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (Planning in progress.)

August 18 - Visit to see the Wendell gardens of Stephen Broll, and hear from Heather Wright and Sara-Evelyn Lane (Broadfork Permaculture), who are helping him keep his wife's garden in shape.

September 8-11 - Franklin County Fair (set-up for our booth is Tuesday 9/6 & 9/7)

September 15 - visit UMass permaculture gardens in person. Dan Bensonoff will be our guide.

October  -  Annual Garlic and Arts  Festival in Orange, MA. 

October - Annual Potluck/Oktoberfest

November 5-20 2022 Smith College Fall Chrysanthemum Show. First Saturday in November - runs for 2 weeks, including the 3rd weekend.

November  5 & 6 - Cider Days! Celebrate all things apple with special events and tastings. 
 
November 17:  6-8 pm - Wreaths/Kissing Balls - Chapley Gardens, South Deerfield, MA. (fee)

December 9:  6-8 pm - Annual Holiday Party with optional Yankee Swap (hopefully!!)


For more information on this month's or any other listed club-sponsored event, please contact the club at: greenfieldgardenclub@yahoo.com