Enrolling New Members Now! 🌸🪻🌸 Our first Garden Story Project Starts January 2027
"How do we turn books and stories into experiences?"
Where books become gardens and gardens become classrooms.
The Garden Story Project connects books with plants, gardens, nature, hands-on activities, creative projects, and community stewardship—turning stories into experiences that can be shared across generations.
Garden Story Project™ connects books and stories with gardens, plants, nature, creativity, and community learning. Each project invites participants to read, discover, create, observe, grow, and take action through activities that may include gardening, crafts, nature exploration, discussion, and stewardship. Families and organizations can participate at home or use the project model to create their own learning experiences.
Each month, everyone explores a seasonal theme through a carefully selected children's books and adult book. When we gather, children and adults have age-appropriate activities and discussions, then come back together for family projects and community adventures.
Whether you come to read, create, garden, volunteer, or simply spend time together, there's a place for you in our garden.
Each age ran
Calling all young gardeners, nature detectives, and curious explorers!
Our Children's Garden Club brings stories to life through a monthly children's book, hands-on crafts, garden discoveries, and family challenges.
Each month, young members will:
📚 Discover a new children's book
🎨 Create a hands-on craft to take home
🌱 Explore a garden or nature theme
🐞 Investigate the world around them
🌼 Complete a family Grow-Along Challenge
🌎 Participate in community adventures
The children's group meets separately from the adults so our youngest gardeners can learn, explore, and share at their own level.
Every book opens a garden gate—and every young reader gets to decide where the adventure leads.
A new story, a handmade creation, a garden challenge, and hopefully a little dirt under their fingernails!
This is where the whole family comes together!
The Family Garden Club is designed for families who want to experience the magic of both the children's and adult reading adventures together. Each Month will have books for each centered on the same theme.
Each month, your family will have the opportunity to experience:
📚 One Adult Book
📖 One Children's Book
🌱 A Family Garden Challenge
🎨 A Hands-On Family Project
🌎 A Community Adventure
Parents, caregivers or grandparents can enjoy the adult book while children explore their own story. Then everyone comes back together for activities that connect the two.
For example, an adult book about pollinators might be paired with a children's story about bees. Your family might then:
🐝 Build a pollinator habitat
🌼 Plant flowers together
🎨 Make a bee-themed craft
📚 Compare what the two books taught you
🌱 Visit a local garden
🤝 Participate in a community stewardship project
That's the magic.
Children discover the world through their stories.
Adults explore deeper ideas through theirs.
Then everyone meets in the garden.
Adult members have opportunities to turn the ideas explored in our books into action through volunteer hours, stewardship projects, workshops, and community service.
Read a book.
Learn something new.
Roll up your sleeves.
Leave your community a little better than you found it.
For gardeners, readers, lifelong learners, and anyone who believes a good book can open the door to a great conversation.
Our Adult Garden Book Club explores one carefully selected adult book each month, connecting literature with gardening, nature, history, sustainability, herbal wisdom, and community.
Members can expect:
📚 Monthly adult book discussions
🌿 Hands-on garden projects
🍵 Seasonal workshops and demonstrations
🌱 Gardening and plant education
🐝 Nature and environmental exploration
🤝 Volunteer opportunities
🌎 Community stewardship projects
👩🌾 Guest speakers and special experiences
Some months may take us into a garden. Others may take us into a workshop, a historic site, a nature trail, or a community service project.
We don't just read about the world—we step outside and experience it.