KEENE — In what has become an annual tradition, Adirondack Garden Club (AGC) members and their guests gathered in early December at the Whallonsburg Grange to decorate evergreen wreaths for the season.
Some of the wreaths were intended for members’ homes but even more were destined as donations to Families First in Elizabethtown, the countrywide agency that works with families facing mental health challenges.
Since its beginning five years ago, the Families First wreath-making program has become a favorite project for AGC members. This year, the club created over 45 wreaths for Families First.
Founded in 1928, the Adirondack Garden Club’s mission is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to aid in the protection of native plants and birds, and to encourage civic planting, and the conservation of our natural resources.
The Adirondack Garden Club’s purpose is the conservation of the plants, shrubs and trees native to the Adirondack region, and the making of both wild and cultivated gardens characteristic of the environment in which they are placed, the furthering of the cultivation of gardens throughout the Adirondack area, and the promotion of civic conservation and beautification.
More information is available on the club’s website.