Community Engagement
Civic Projects, Fair, Scholarship, etc
Saving Forests $68 At A Time - Each month we collect pennies for this project!
“NGC and the USDA Forest Service are proud to have formed a partnership sustaining our national and urban forests through this reforestation/forest education program.
Your Garden Club can participate in a meaningful and practical conservation project by contributing $68.00 to a Penny Pines plantation as part of the costs of replanting replacement trees indigenous to a particular damaged area. Whether by fire or by other natural catastrophe, pine trees and other trees are replaced. You may designate a specific state you wish to have benefit from this contribution.”
Ongoing and New Civic Projects
The Flag Pole Garden at the Pembroke Public Library was established in 1998, and continues to be designed and maintained by club members. In 2016, the garden was expanded using funds that were donated in memory of our late president, Mary Lou Chase. The club decorates the circle winter greens for the holidays.
Club members planted Rain Gardens at Pembroke Town Hall and at the Pembroke Police Station. The gardens were created in 2007 in partnership with the North and South Rivers Watershed Association.
The flower garden at the Pembroke Council on Aging building was planted by club members. A large flower bed was designed and built at the office of the Pembroke Housing Authority in 2011. Club members have also planted, and continue to maintain, the flower bed on the traffic island, “Ploak”, at the intersection of Pleasant St. and Oak St. In addition, work has been completed on the gardens adjacent to the Memorial Brick Walkway.
We encourage members to participate!
2024
Marshfield Fair
Bench in a
Shade Garden
Setup Day
Marshfield Fair 2024: 2nd Place
Marshfield Fair 2023: 1st Place
Marshfield Fair 2022: 3rd Place
Marshfield Fair 2021: 3rd place
Marshfield Fair 2018: First Place and Best in Show
Marshfield Fair 2017: 3rd place
Marshfield Fair 2016: 1st place
Marshfield Fair 2015: 2nd place
Scholarship - Mattakeesett Garden Club of Pembroke Scholarship
The Mattakeesett Garden Club of Pembroke awards a $1000 scholarship each club year. The scholarship recipient is determined by their educational plans in the horticultural, agricultual, or other environmental focused fields. Applications can be picked up at the Pembroke High School guidance counselors office. Once the recipient is awarded the scholarship in the spring and provides a transcript of their first completed semester, they receive the money.
We are pleased to announce our Scholarship Winners
Brennan Williamson - 2023-2024 school year
Monroe Haen - 2023 - In Memory of Jason Haen
