Kalamazoo

 Garden Council, Inc.

2008 - 2009 GOALS

  • Increase Membership by taking advantage of any and all contacts.

  • Encourage husbands to join "co-ed" clubs by making programs of interest to them.

  • Continue to plant native plants; work toward eradication of invasive exotics; and use the principals of rain gardening in our landscape.

  • Encourage all our clubs and members to take greater advantage of the many opportunities available to us all through Council, District III, MGC and NGC

  • Research the history of our KGC home with an eye to having it eventually listed on the State and National Registers of Historic places.

                                        Zola Eidson, President

OBJECTIVES

The objectives and purposes of this non-profit organization, organized in February 1946 are:

  1. To Coordinate the interests of the Garden Clubs in the Kalamazoo Area and to bring them into closer relations of mutual helpfulness by association, conference and correspondence.

  2. To operate on a non-profit basis solely for benevolent, charitable, environmental, scientific and educational purposes.

  3. To promote the organization of new clubs and affiliate them in the Michigan Garden Clubs, Inc. and the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc.

  4. To advance the fine art of gardening, of landscape design, the study of horticulture and artistic floral design.

  5. To aid in the protection and conservation of natural resources, to enhance civic beauty and to encourage the improvement of roadsides and parks.

  6. To cooperate with other organizations in the furtherance of the foregoing objectives.

Bylaws of Kalamazoo Garden Council, Inc.; revision adopted May 9, 2006

KGC Continuing Projects:

Blanche Babcock Council Library        Horticulture
Council House Shop                            KGC Newsletter
Council Flower Show                          KGC Open House/Craft Fair
Council Greens Sale                             Markin Glen Park
Environmental Concerns                       National Arbor Week
Flower Design Classes                         Youth Gardening

Member clubs are members of:

  • District III, Michigan Garden Clubs, Inc.
  • Central Region, National Garden Clubs, Inc.

Council is a contributing member of:

  • Arbor Day Foundation
  • Kalamazoo Nature Center (Associate Member)
  • Michigan Audubon Society
  • Nature Conservancy of Michigan (Grass Bay)

Council also contributes to:

  • Kalamazoo County Extension Service
  • Kalamazoo in Bloom
  • Jo Russell Memorial Wildflower Meadow at Markin Glen Park
  • SouthWest Michigan Land Conservancy

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