Ways to Celebrate National Garden Month
and Give a Garden

In Your Community...
• Organize or take part in a town beautification day. America in Bloom is a national greening organization that can help you get started. Click here to learn more.
• Visit your local farmers' market.
• Compliment a neighbor on his or her garden.
• Get together with neighbors to purchase compost and mulch in bulk quantities. To calculate how much you need, click here.
• Volunteer to plant and maintain a garden at your town library.
• Submit a gardening article or essay to your local paper.
• Interview an elder to learn what foods his or her family grew when he or she was a child.
• Seek out neighbors from various ethnic groups to learn about their native cuisine and gardening techniques.
• Green up your street or a local park by picking up trash.
• Share a cutting of one of your favorite landscape or houseplants with a neighbor.
• Inventory your gardening gear (e.g., pots, seeds, stakes) and donate the excess to a community gardening program or school garden.
• Celebrate other important "green" holidays: Earth Day (April 22) and National Arbor Day (April 26).
• Plant a Row for the Hungry and donate the food to your food shelf or other hunger relief agency. To learn about Plant a Row, click here.
• Volunteer at your local school's garden.
• Start a neighborhood garden club.
• Share your garden's bounty with a neighbor.
• Have fun doing a gardening project with a child. Click here for some ideas.
• Deliver houseplants or flowers to a nursing home or children's hospital.
• Donate past issues of gardening magazines to your library, or buy the library a gift subscription.

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