May 28,
2021
| Noelia Ortiz
nortiz@thereminder.com
AGAWAM – The Agawam Garden Club will have their annual plant sale on June 5 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Feeding Hills Congregational Church.
This is the club’s first in-person event back since the shutdown in March 2020.
“The board has met a couple of times via Zoom but besides that we haven’t been able to do too much,” Agawam Garden Club Vice President Kathy Rose said.
They will be selling a variety of plants including perennials, vegetables, day lilies, bleeding hearts, bushes, shrubs, jack and the pulpits and more for a bargain price.
Proceeds will go towards furnishing speakers and the rest will go towards the Agawam Garden Club Scholarship fund.
This year, they will be awarding a $500 scholarship to Agawam High School senior Emerson White at their first in person meeting, taking place June 8 at 6:30 p.m.
It is an annual scholarship they give to an Agawam High School senior or college student who graduated from Agawam High School in a qualifying program related to the environment and gardening. Some of the majors that qualify include botany, environmental engineering, environment science, earth systems, forest management, natural resources, plant soil and insect science, sustainable agriculture, sustainable horticulture or food and farming, turf grass science and management, landscape design and management technology, clean energy, technology studies: wastewater, or other environmental related studies.
The required supporting documents to apply for the scholarship include a copy of high school transcripts for seniors, copy of all college transcripts, a list of two references, and a copy of a college acceptance letter for the high school senior applicants.
For more information on how to apply for the Agawam Garden Club Scholarship visit https://agawamgardenclub.com/scholarship/.
The club will be in compliance with what the state’s COVID-19 guidelines and protocols are including not mandating a facemask to attend the plant sale.
“We all feel a lot more comfortable with doing it. We will stick with whatever the guidelines are at the moment,” Rose said.
Rose stated they will be planning to have other outdoor activities for the rest of the summer with more details to come.
For more information on the plant sale, or membership with the Agawam Garden Club, visit www.agawamgardenclub.com.
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