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The Adirondack Garden Club has awarded the Ausable River Association a 1928 AGC Founders Fund grant to continue efforts to revegetate the East Branch of the Ausable River. Here, AsRA staff and volunteers plant along the riverbanks of Upper Jay. (Photo provided by — AsRA)
KEENE — The Adirondack Garden Club recently awarded seven grants from the club’s 1928 AGC Founders Fund to nonprofit organizations that positively impact the Adirondack environment.
The 1928 AGC Founders Fund was established in the 1980s to award grants to schools and other nonprofit organizations involved in programs aimed at impacting specific areas within the Adirondacks. These requests will be reviewed by the Club’s Executive Committee for approval and distribution.
Grants were awarded to:
￣ Wild Center Youth Climate Summit. Every year, high school and college students from across the country gather for his two-day conference to learn about climate change, environmental impacts, and solutions before developing their own climate action plans.
￣ The Ausable River Association will continue to fund projects to improve riparian planting along the Ausable River.
￣ Adirondack Trail Improvement Association. Support ATIS’ programs to maintain and restore more than 100 miles of trails in the High Peaks Nature Preserve.
￣ Adirondack History Museum, to help maintain the museum’s colonial gardens.
￣ The Adirondack Mountain Club supports ADK’s Summit Steward Program, which educates visitors and helps protect the alpine habitat of the Adirondack High Peaks.
￣ Thank you to North Country School for supporting the school’s farm and garden program and hosting the garden club. “Forest under your feet” The event was opened to the public with a lecture by Justin Waskiewicz.
￣ Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture. Since our founding in 1928, we have funded more than 1,400 award recipients.
The Adirondack Garden Club was founded in 1928. The club’s mission is to inspire knowledge and love of gardening, support the conservation of native plants and birds, and encourage the public to plant and protect natural resources. Its purpose is to protect the plants, shrubs, and trees native to the Adirondack region, to create both wild and cultivated gardens characteristic of the environment in which they are found, and to create a collection of gardens throughout the Adirondack region. To promote cultivation. Promotion of citizen conservation and beautification. The Adirondack Garden Club is a 501 C(3) nonprofit organization. For more information, please visit the club’s website.
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