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Navarre Projects & Goals
 Navarre Garden Club Projects and Goals
OUR ENDURING GOALS The Navarre Garden Club is organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. It strives to: Educate members and the general public regarding home and community gardening, floral design, horticulture, and landscape design through workshops, seminars, field trips and other formal and informal classes.
- Research and disseminate information to educate members and the public on the protection of plant, bird and butterfly life native to the Northwest Florida region.
- Develop and educate members and the public in natural resource conservation and environmentally friendly horticultural practices classes.
- Educate students in area schools about the interdependence and environmental importance of area plant, bird and butterfly life, and assist deserving students in horticultural fields of endeavor through educational scholarships.
- The Club provides financial support, alone and through the FFGC, for youth environmental education, college scholarships, and the efforts of other community charitable organizations that promote goals consistent with the Club’s
2008-2009 Projects
With the Community - Flower Show – Navarre Public Library
- Thanksgiving Centerpiece Workshop
- Arbor Day Program
- Angel Tree
- Butterfly Gardening Public Workshop at the Panhandle Butterfly House
- Navarre Public Library – Refresh Landscape
- Yard of the Month Award to a Navarre Resident monthly
- Jr. Garden Club Programs monthly at W. Navarre Intermediate School
- Floral Design Workshops monthly at local nursing homes
- Scholarships for PJC and Navarre High School Students
- Adopt a Highway 4 times a year and Support for the Great American Cleanup
- Digging It – courses 7-10 completing the series
- Floral Design Studies course
Especially for Members and Guests - Horticultural Workshops, monthly Jan-April and Hyper-tufu and Vegetable Seed Planting
- Fun with Flower Workshops, monthly Sept-Dec.
- “Caravan of Lights” tour of Christmas Lighting
- Members Garden Tour & Garden Party
- Christmas Party and Sweetheart’s Luncheon
- Newsletter and Web Site
- Field Trips: Mobile Flower Festival
Cottage Garden Tea and FOG Gardens
2007-2008 Fund Raising Events
- Craft Sales - at monthly meetings and community events
- Festive Holiday Greenery Sale – live wreaths and poinsettias
- Annual Spring Fling Tasting Luncheon – tasting of area restaurant foods,cooking demonstration by local chef, Plant Sale, Craft sale, Opportunity Drawings
- Craft and Plant Sale at Navarre Fun Fest (June)
Donations- Betty Pullum Scholarship – Navarre High School graduating senior majoring in a horticulture related field
- PJC Scholarship – Pensacola Junior College Student majoring in a horticulture related field
- Panhandle Butterfly House
- ARC Santa Rosa
- Santa Rosa Clean Community
- SEEK
- Wekiva Camp Biding Fund
- FL State Flower Show
Expanding Our Horizons
The Garden Center Planning Committee will plan various programs to raise funds for the construction of a Garden Center facility in Navarre. 
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