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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.
Garden clubs formed in other American communities. The growth of garden clubs was one manifestation of the broader women's club movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [7] [8] In 1913, the first national federation of garden clubs, the Garden Club of America, was established.
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 ...
Activities for members are organised at level, area and national level. At local level each flower club arranges an annual programme which includes flower arranging demonstrations by trained and qualified NAFAS demonstrators, there may also be hands-on workshops, talks and garden visits as well as other social activities.
River Oaks Garden Club Forum of Civics is a building at 2503 Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas, United States listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the "Forum of Civics." The building is located south of the River Oaks neighborhood in the Upper Kirby district.
Chicago Botanic Garden: Glencoe: Downers Grove Park District Downers Grove The Elmhurst Arboretum Elmhurst: Evanston Township High School Arboretum Evanston Township ...
The organization is also known as Gardeners of America (TGOA) or Men’s Garden Clubs of America (MGCA). It has its headquarters in Johnston, Iowa , a business suburb of Des Moines . It is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Illinois , and registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit group.
Crops at the former South Central Farm in Los Angeles, California. A community garden is any piece of land gardened by a group of people. [3] The majority of gardens in community gardening programs are collections of individual garden plots, frequently between 3 m × 3 m (9.8 ft × 9.8 ft) and 6 m × 6 m (20 ft × 20 ft).