PROJECTS THE SGC HAS FUNDED IN FULL

• The COMO Children’s Learning Garden 

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• The Lighthouse Museum Garden

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• NatureScapes, a natural science program that funds curriculum and an annual field trip to the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center for every third grade class in the town of Stonington (private, public, parochial)

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• Quiambaug Fire Station pocket garden

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• Scholarships for 2 high school students to attend Project Oceanology at the University of Connecticut’s local facility

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• The Stonington Borough Post Office Garden

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• Stonington Cemetery Inc. – Daffodil bulb planting and beautification

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• Stonington High School: speakers on careers in agriculture

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• Wayland's Wharf Rain Garden

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• Annual Environmental Awards (See our Gifts & Scholarships page for more scholarship information.

PUBLICATIONS

• “Earth Friendly Alternatives,” a 60 page award winning book on alternatives to pesticides (2nd edition)

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• "What's Up Outside," a 56-page teacher's workbook based on the NatureScapes curriculum and published in 1998, was developed and funded by the club as a gift to third-grade classrooms in Connecticut

Additionally, members have volunteered their skills and energy towards the following projects:

• Reclaiming wetlands at the Stonington Community Center with the DEEP

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• La Grua Center – Children’s Greens Workshop

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• Floral centerpieces for Salt Marsh Opera, NESS, Stonington Free Library, the COMO, and Stonington Historical Society fundraisers

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• Stonington Free Library - weekly floral arrangements in the summer

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• Stonington Free Library - garden book donation

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• Winter Wreaths for the Stonington Free Library, COMO, Lighthouse, and Captain Nathaniel Palmer House

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• Holiday Greens tabletop arrangements for area care facilities

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• Gardening and weeding the Borough Post Office Garden, the COMO Children's Learning Garden, the Lighthouse Museum Garden, and the Wayland's Wharf Rain Garden

PROJECTS THE SGC HAS FUNDED IN PARTNERSHIP

• Climate Change - sponsored the public forum to discuss plans to mitigate the impact of Climate Change with the Town of Stonington's Town Planner and Town Engineer

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• Comfort Station in Stonington Borough - Pledge to fund the environmentally sustainable features of the future public comfort station. This includes (3) areas:

  • services of a Landscape Architect and Horticulturalist

  • purchase and installation of the plants associated with the environmental features

  • public signage highlighting educational aspects of environmentally sustainable features

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• The Cottage at Avalon/Stonington Community Classroom 

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• Dean's Mill School

  • entrance garden

  • after-school Garden and Junior Garden Clubs

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• Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center - major funding toward the purchase of the Coogan Farm Giving Garden

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• duBois Beach seagrass

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• F.R.E.S.H. vegetable garden project in New London

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• Donahue Park (Pawcatuck) signage

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• Mystic River Boathouse Park - funded Horticulture Consultant to work with Town of Stonington to identify recommended native plants

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• The Nature Conservancy's public Programs on Climate Change

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• North Main Street tree and daffodil planting

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• Paffard Woods Project by the Avalonia Land Conservancy (redirected to Copps Brook Project)

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• Stonington Borough Fire Department landscaping

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• Stonington Free Library landscaping

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• Stonington High School

  • additions to the courtyard

  • teaching garden

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• Stonington High School & Middle School - purchase of mobile science carts, science books, tapes and CD-roms

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• Stonington Historical Society’:

  • major funding for the creation of a grape arbor and perennial beds on the grounds of the Captain Nathaniel Palmer House

  • supporting public open space at Lighthouse Museum and Captain Nathaniel Palmer House Museum

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• Stonington Land Trust - Centennial Tree Project (22 trees)

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• Wadawanuck Square planting of the Norway Spruce in collaboration with the Stonington Village Improvement Association

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• Wayland’s Wharf gazebo start-up funding

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• West Vine Street School outdoor classroom garden​​

The SGC has also made charitable donations to the following organizations:

• American Horticulture Society

• Avalonia Land Conservancy

• Clean Up Sound & Harbor (CUSH)

• Connecticut College Arboretum

• Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation

• CT Adopt-A-Road Program North Main Street

• Eastern Connecticut Conservation District

• Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut

• Friends of Wadawanuck Square

• Garden Club of America

• GCA Student Conservation Scholarship Fund

• Native Plant Trust

• Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center – supporting Community Garden, Holiday Toy Drive, Food Drive

• Save the Sound

• Stonington Beautification Committee

• Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association