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Call Gayle Lechner for membership information. (908) 232-8730
Junior Garden Club
The Rake & Hoe Junior Garden Club has members between Kindergarten and Sixth Grade. They meet once a month.
The Juniors are having a busy fall. They are learning about butterfly migrations, making decorations for the senior club's upcoming house tour, making bird trees and volunteering at the Hetfield House, all this fall.
Community Projects
This Fall the members are making ornaments for the annual December tree decorating at the Jardim School. The bright stars will be given to all of the children and coordinate with a holiday book for the school. Committee members will be making bedside flower arrangements for veterans at Lyons Hospital. As a new project this year they are creating gift bags for patients at Lyons Hospital in a variety of themes.
Deck the Halls 2010
Deck the Halls 2010 will be held on Saturday December 4 this year from 10 AM to 4 PM. . Members of Rake and Hoe are decorating four local homes for the holidays. Each home will feature custom designed decorations following different themes, and will include a variety of fresh floral arrangements. The homes include a magnificent Tudor style house in the Wychwood section of Westfield, a modern house near Tamagues Park, a lovely center hall colonial, and a stylish condo in Copperthwaite. The tour will be enhanced by a boutique held at the historic Reeve House on Mountain Avenue where the club has established The Claire Brownell Memorial Wildflower Garden. The boutique will include holiday floral arrangements, small gift items, kits for making arrangements at home, topiaries for outdoor decorating and new this year our "Porch Pots", perfect to take right home and place by your door.
Tickets are available from members of Rake and Hoe, and are for sale at Baron's Drugs, Christoffers Florist, Coldwell Banker East and at Williams Nursery.
Well-Seasoned Cookbooks
Members of Rake and Hoe are good cooks as well as good gardeners and have just published their new cookbook, Well-Seasoned. This is a collection of recipes for five seasons: spring, summer, fall, winter, and holiday. The books will be displayed at the upcoming decorated home tour Deck the Halls, and will be for sale at the tour boutique, the town book store and from members of the club.
Planting Sunshine
For the past two years the members of the Rake and Hoe Garden Club of Westfield have been planting hundreds of daffodils around town. Project "Planting Sunshine" created spring displays of sunshine at the Westfield Train Station, the Reeve House, Brightwood Park, The Miller-Cory House Museum, and the Shadowlawn Pocket Park.