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  • Wednesday, April 22, 10:30 am – 1:00 pm – Metro District Annual Meeting and Luncheon

    The Metro District of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. will hold its Annual Meeting and Luncheon on Wednesday, April 22, from 10:30 – 1:00 at the Wellesley College Club, 727 Washington Street (Route 16 West), Wellesley.  The featured speaker is Noah Wilson-Rich, Ph.D, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Best Bees Company, LLC.  Parking is available adjacent to the Club, just inside the College’s rear entrance off Route 16.  Additional parking is available in the lot across Route 16, and elevators are available to the 2nd floor dining room.

    Noah Wilson-Rich founded Best Bees Company in his Boston apartment while getting his Ph.D. at Tufts University. Best Bees supplies gardeners and any other interested parties in the Boston area with beehives, as well as the resources, materials and appropriate consultation for their upkeep. This service is a nontraditional means of raising money for research to improve honey bee health. Profits from installing and managing these honey beehives goes to fund Wilson-Rich’s research into bee diseases.

    Dr. Rich will speak at 10:30, followed by lunch at noon.  The menu is butternut squash bisque, chicken Caesar salad, sorbet with fresh fruit, coffee and tea.  $38 per person.  Reservations are due by Wednesday, April 1.  Please make check payable to Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts (GCFM) and mail to Jean McCarthy, 24 Tubwreck Drive, Dover, Massachusetts 02030.  Please note the name of your Garden Club on the check.

  • Thursday, April 11, 10:00 am – Fabulous Gardens That Inspired Floral Designs

    The Metro District Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 11 at 10:00 AM. at Elm Bank in the Hunnewell Carriage House. Elm Bank is located at 900 Washington Street, (Route 16), Wellesley, Massachusetts.  Our featured speaker, Thelma Shoneman, a nationally accredited Master Flower Show Judge, will be presenting a program, Fabulous Gardens that Inspired Floral Designs. Thelma recently visited six fabulous gardens in Oregon, Nebraska, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maine. Thelma will speak about each garden and the unique attraction that inspired the “floral souvenir”! Each arrangement that she creates will include a different leaf manipulation, which she will demonstrate. These arrangements will be raffled at the end of the program.
    The luncheon will be catered by Baker’s Best of Newton and the charge for the luncheon is $25 per person. Checks should be made out to GCFM. For each attendee please list their name, email address, and their choice of lunch sandwich: chicken salad, roasted vegetable or turkey. Tell us if an attendee has special dietary restrictions. Guests are welcome. You may mail a check to Babs Moss, 43 Fairfax Road, Needham, MA 02492.  Image below is of Thelma’s floral interpretation at the Worcester Art Museum’s Flora in Winter:

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