Meeting and Program Schedule

Meeting and Program Schedule

Meetings generally start at 1:00 pm with presentations following at 2:15 at the Bow Lake Grange Hall (unless otherwise noted and pending local health guidelines)

Happy Gardening 2025!

May 5, 2025:  Garden Club Meeting 1:00 pm @ the Bow Lake Grange.  The Presentation:Getting the garden ready for Spring.  Best practices for vegetable and perennial gardens, lawns ans shrubs.                                    

May 24, 2025: Strafford Garden Club Plant Sale  Scholarship and Beautification projects Fundraiser, 8-11 am, Strafford School Parking Lot. 

June 2, 2025: Garden Club Meeting 1:00 pm @ the Bow Lake Grange. Presentation: Container gardening (aka "pot farming") Benefits and drawbacks of gardening in conatiners, types, sizes. Locations for different purposes.

June 20, 2025: SGC Trip to Ogunquit Museum of American Art "Art in Bloom" floistry display with live flowers of art works.

July 7, 2025:  Garden Club Meeting 1:00 pm @ the Bow Lake Grange. Presentation: Garden Strong-How to stay healthy as a gardener. Techniques and tools to reduce stress from garden work.

July 15, 2025:  SGC Trip to The Blooming Farm, Barrington.  See the array of dozens of daylily varieties available for purchase.

August 4, 2025:  Garden Club Meeting 1:00 pm @ the Bow Lake Grange. Presentation: Shade Gardening-Turn that shady section of lawn into a blooming habitat for birds, bees and butterflies.

August 11 or 18, 2025 TBD:  Shaker Village, Canterbury Special Tour of the village grounds and Hugelculture pollinator plot. Check back for updated date and time.

September 5, 2025: Garden Club Meeting 1:00 pm @ the Bow Lake Grange. Presentation:  To Be Announced.  Check back for updated topic

September 20, 2025: Dunk's Mushrooms, Farm tour and lecture about mushroom culture and wild mushroom foraging by owner William Dunkerly.

October 6, 2025: Garden Club Meeting 1:00 pm @ the Bow Lake Grange. Presentation: Soil Testing - Time to prepare for an even better garden in 2026 with knowledge of your soils and the tools and supplies for amendment.

                                 Trips / Lunch                       

      From April thru November we will try to have a field trip and/or local lunch planned for members. Monitor your email for more information. During Jan., Feb. and March while our gardens are resting through the winter, we will not have business meetings. Instead we will stay in touch with occasional lunches at local restaurants. Member suggestions for places are welcome!