Guardians of the Brandywine Event

Victory Patrons

Join Victory Brewing Company on
Sunday, October 4, 1 to 4 pm for

Victory Sunday Matinee
with
The Guardians of the Brandywine

Serving… Lunch and a Movie

Enjoy a choice of Lemon Chicken,
Baked Tilapia or Stuffed Portobello
Mushroom over wild rice, beer
and then watch:

THE UNFORESEEN
An official selection of the 2007
Sundance Film Festival and
Winner of the 2008 Independent Spirit Award
“Truer than Fiction” Prize.


How do we balance the needs of the
development community with preservation of our natural resources?

THE UNFORESEEN presents an eloquent,
balanced answer. Watch the trailer at
http://theunforeseenfilm.com/blog/trailer/
and you will want to watch this movie in its entirety.


Tickets $50.00 Reservations Requested
online www.victorybeer.com or
phone 610.942.7966


Event benefits The Guardians of the Brandywine, a 501(3)(c) non- profit, learn more about us at www.watchourwaters.

Beautify Blight..Love is.. Cultivating a Community Garden

Beautify Blight is an endeavor to create teams within a town, city, or region to develop a vegetable garden on a formerly unsightly piece of property chosen by the group. It is one of our National President's most important 'New Projects.'

As National Garden Club members let's show our communities that we care!

Our objective for this project is to involve all garden clubs, no matter their size, to be involved in their individual communities. The project calls for garden clubs to find a community group interested in promoting the same concerns, such as Rotary, Chambers of Commerce, Lions' Clubs, churches, or a government agency in the finding of an unsightly piece of property that can be used by the group to develop and cultivate a community vegetable garden.

Once a site has been found and plans are being developed to continue the project, a local youth group should be asked to participate as a partner in the group so that the whole community is involved. The purpose is to make garden clubs a viable part in uniting all the participants in the need for community involvement in each others lives. The resulting service to those less fortunate by sharing the produce grown by this group effort is the ultimate goal of this project.
National Garden Clubs play a vital role in our communities and it is important for us to grow through our dedicated service and visual commitment to our towns, cities, states and regions as a national organization.

The final stage will be the sharing of the produce with a local soup kitchen, homeless agency, or church meal programs for those less fortunate.

Sponsoring groups may be allowed, if desired, to have fundraisers or seek underwriting, actual or in-kind, within their communities to support the project.

Participants will be asked to submit a 1 or 2 page summary of project, with before and after pictures. Depending on the scope of the project, and if stated in summary, the project may be a one or two year program.

For additional information, contact Jeanne Nelson, Beautify Blight Chairman.

Golden Days - NGC President's Project

Can you imagine how beautiful the country will be with daffodils planted across our nation!
NGC President Renee Blashchke's project, Golden Days, is to promote the planting of daffodils.

What a great way to recognize our gardening friends who are no longer in their homes or can no longer plant a flowers. We'll plant daffodils for them!

NGC (National Garden Clubs ) will offer 2 outstanding Golden Days Daffodil collections

Golden Harvest Trumpet Daffodil is an old-timer (almost 100 years old) but still and incredible daffodil that is vigorous and long lasting.

Master Daffodil Blend includes at least 50 tall and mid-sized varieties that will broaden your daffodil horizons.

Your Golden Days Project might include mass plantings at retirement centers or Blue Star Memorial sites. You might choose instead to take a potted plant to a nursing home. Places to plant daffodils are limited only by your imagination.
Document your projects. Apply for the award. With this project, everyone wins!

Forty percent of the purchase price goes to support the projects of NGC.

Go to http://www.gardenclub.org/Shopping/GoldenDaysDaffodils.aspx for complete details and ordering.


For more information, contact Lila Petersen, Golden Days Chairman.

Planting by Spade and Trowel Garden Club

Debbie Bennitt, a member of Spade & Trowel Club of Kennett Square and Jerry Roden, volunteer for the Food Cupboard of Kennett Square, as they complete the planting of the entrance garden for the Kennett Square Food Cupboard.

Sharing Junior Gardener Activities

Great news from the Garden Club of Springfield! Bobbi Gallagher reported -

1) Sabold Elementary School is planting native sunflowers in pots which they will exhibit in a flower show on October 2. The school's art teach is helping with the project.

2) Scenic School - May 15. Gym teacher lead planting in ten (10) public parks in Springfield. The borough grounds manager coordinated the soil preparation.

3) Springfield Middle School (grade 6) does a nature study in winter.

Junior Gardeners of Four Seasons Garden Club of Kennett Square have done a worm composting project and cleaned out the Butterfly Garden which earned a PHS Community Greening award in November 2008. Children had a plant sale as part of the Kennett Square Beautification Committee plant sale and contriubuted $130.00 to National Disasters USA, a project of NGC. It was the largest donation to the fund this year. Great job!

Whose good news about Junior Activities will be next?

Helen Reed, Jr. Activities Chair

National, Regional and District Officers

Here are the officers for 2009-11

GCFP President ( Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania)
Theme: 'Let's Keep Growing'
Project: 'GCFP vs. Litter'
Angela Raitano, President
angie.raitano@comcast.net
website: http://www.pagardenclubs.org/

CAR Director ( Central Atlantic Region)
Theme: 'Because of you and what you do, make our World a better place'
Carmie Devito, Director
carmiedevito@neo.rr.com
website: http://www.gardencentral.org/car

NGC President (National Garden Clubs, Inc.)
Theme: 'Golden Days' (planting of daffodils throughout the United States and 'Beautify Blight'
Renee Blaschke, President
renee.blaschke@sbcglobal.net
website: http://www.gardenclub.org/

District I Director
Theme: 'Weaving together garden clubs-district-community-one member at a time'
Linda Southerling, Director
lsfleur1@hotmail.com
blog: http://www.gardenchatpa.org/

GCFP headquarters
Lee Ann Stine
1525 Cedar Cliff Drive, STE 103
Camp Hill, PA 17011-7707
717-737-8219

District I General Board Meeting and Luncheon, June 16

Come to a Presidents’ Fête!

District I Invites You to celebrate summer at
Springton Manor Farm

Time: 10am to 1pm
Tuesday, June 16th

Enjoy a wonderful, fresh, seasonal luncheon at the historic home located on 300 picturesque acres in beautiful Chester County. Explore the home and the grounds, complete with a Victorian garden, gazebo, century-old Sugar Maples and the majestic "King and Queen" Penn Oaks. Door Prizes too!

Guest Speaker: Noted local author, Sharon White, discusses her award-winning book, Vanished Gardens, offering a historical look at Philadelphia gardens, gardeners, botanists, and plant collectors.

Springton Manor Farm 860 Springton Road, Glenmoore, PA 19343 Located 5 miles west of Downington off Route 322

No cost to District 1 Presidents

Cost for Club members and guests: $19
The public is invited to attend.

Door Prizes!!

RSVP by June 10th to:

Linda Southerling, District 1 Director
610-793-2573 or lsfleur1@hotmail.com