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Save the Date – 2027 Garden Tour
Happy summer from the Bar Harbor Garden Club! Save the date! Save Saturday, July 24 for our 2027 tour, Gardens by the Sea. We invite you to visit five stunning Bar Harbor gardens to relax and enjoy nature’s beauty from 10 am to 4 pm. Please note a limited quantity of...
‘No Mow May’
The Bar Harbor Garden Club endorses practices that create a pollinator-friendly community on MDI, by supporting initiatives like ‘No Mow May’ and plants that are neonicotinoid (pesticide) free. These efforts help to support and protect pollinator populations of native...
Kelley Farm Green Bean Project for Bar Harbor Food Pantry
Bar Harbor Garden Club made quick work of the sixth harvest of beans for the Bar Harbor Food Pantry. We picked the final beans from the third planting and removed the plants. We totaled 6.4 pounds which brought our cumulative total to just under 100lbs of green beans...
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Members and Friends traveled by coach today to Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay for a terrific day of touring, learning, walking and enjoying the many garden areas. What a magnificent treasure this over 300-acre garden is--what a gift. Thank you to our BHGC...
Improvements at Pemetic Elementary Greenhouse, Southwest Harbor
Funds for the Gardens by the Sea, Garden Tour 2023, were used to make improvements to the raised beds, water access, greenhouse, and landscaping at the Pemetic Elementary School in Southwest Harbor. The enhancements provide an upgraded functional greenhouse, newly...
BHGC Outing to Moore Manor Lavender, Newport, ME
Fabulous BHGC outing to Moore Manor Lavender in Newport, Maine — beautiful day, row after row of stunning lavender, and a gift shop full of lavender inspired gifts, lavender sugar, shortbread and sorbet. Growing lavender in ME can be done if you follow a few...
Bowdoin College Student, Lillian Frank, Awarded 2024 Nell Goff Memorial Scholarship
Photo Caption: May 23, 2024, St. Croix District Annual Meeting – presentation of the $3,000 Nell Goff Memorial Scholarship to Lillian Frank, for pursuit of her studies in earth and oceanographic science at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. From right to left: Barbara...
Nell Goff Memorial Scholarship Announcement
The winner of the prestigious NELL GOFF SCHOLARSHIP for 2024 is Ms. Lillian Frank. Ms. Frank is a graduate of Ellsworth High School class of 2021, and is entering her senior year as a student of the Earth and Oceanographic Sciences at Bowdoin College, Brunswick,...
The Birds of Acadia: Changes in our Avian Population
March 14, 2024, 1:00 p.m. Richard MacDonald, The Natural History Center Local outdoor adventurer, Richard MacDonald, is a world-class naturalist and life-long birder. His training and experience as an ornithologist is enhanced with his credentials of being a...