Ellsworth Garden Club
A Green Plan for Ellsworth
n January 2017 the Ellsworth Garden Club initiated a green planning process through a very well attended public forum. Out of the input from that forum and substantial written submissions a citizens initiative evolved with the following clear vision, mandate and mission:
Our Vision: Ellsworth Will Become a Model Green Community
Our Mandate: To create a phased plan that will help the community realize this Vision
Our Mission: To provide Ellsworth with a phased and ongoing smart plan for creating and maintaining a functional, welcoming and thriving community ecosystem in which people-friendly green objectives are situated within and motivated by attention to the needs and benefits of the full biodiversity of our environment.
FMI:
https://sites.google.com/view/ellsworthgardenclub/ellsworth-green-plan?authuser=0
BUTTERFLY AND HUMMINGBIRD GARDEN AT BIRDSACRE
Winner of a $1000 rant from the National Garden Clubs, Inc and Principal Financial Group and a $300
President’s Project Grant from the Garden Club Federation of Maine.
At the request of the Stanwood Bird Sanctuary, the Club began in late July of 2008 to landscape McGinley Pond at Birdsacre, the
home of Cordelia Stanwood, the pioneering ornithologist.
The primary focus of this project was on natural landscaping around the pond with native species which would attract
hummingbirds and butterflies. The Club was fortunate to receive a $1000 grant from the National Garden Clubs, Inc and Principal Financial Group to
support this project. It was the largest grant received by any Club from this fund in all of New England.
In the summer of 2009 the Club will continue further planting and develop educational programming for Ellsworth’s 3rd and 4th grade students both in the classroom and on site. In the spring of 2008 the project received a GCFM President’s Project Grant to support this dimension of the project.