CROSSLAKE — The Crosslake Area Garden Club’s annual plant sale will run from 8:30-11 a.m. Saturday, June 7, at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Recreation Area picnic shelter next to the dam at 35507 County Road 66 in Crosslake.
All plants are locally grown or dug from club members’ gardens, which provides easy transition to local gardens since the plants are already acclimated to this area.
The sale will again include perennials, annuals, vegetables and flowers. The sale will also include the “Market,” which includes fun garden accents and yard art for gardens.
Last year the club sold over 550 plants and donated over 100 to the Crosslake Food Shelf.
Revenues from the plant sale help fund monthly educational presentations at club meetings as well as donations to horticulture-related nonprofit organizations within a 40-mile radius of Crosslake.
Last year the club donated collectively $1,000 to the following organizations: Emily Food Shelf garden, Ideal Food Shelf garden, Northland Arboretum earmarked for their children’s gardens, Crosslake Community School for the first/second grade class that grows and sells plants to raise money for their home economics program, and the new Breezy Point Community Gardens.
The Crosslake Area Garden Club is celebrating 30 years and consists of nearly 50 members. The club meets at 1 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month at the Crosslake Community Center at 14126 Daggett Pine Road in Crosslake.
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