Our 2023 – 2024 Season ended with our Annual Dinner at A Villa Louisa where our new board was sworn in by Polly Brooks (Former President of the FGCCT). Suzie Hoyt of Glastonbury Garden Club hosted us for a wonderful tour of her beautiful gardens prior to the Annual Dinner

Kim Eierman

The Glastonbury Council of Garden Clubs is hosting Kim Eierman, (sounds like Fireman) at the South Glastonbury Congregational Church (949 Main Street, S. Glastonbury) on Monday, October 7 at 6:30 pm. Founder of EcoBeneficial LLC, Kim is an environmental horticulturist and ecological landscape designer specializing in native plants. Based in New York, Kim teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, The Native Plant Center, Rutgers Home Gardeners School and several other institutions.

Kim is an active speaker nationwide on many ecological landscape topics, presenting for industry conferences, sustainability events, corporate events, environmental organizations, and other groups interested in environmental improvements,

ECOBENEFICIAL LANDSCAPE STRATEGIES FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Climate change is here and it is impacting our landscapes – increased flooding, more frequent droughts, more extreme weather events, longer growing seasons and increasing temperatures. Ecological mismatches, record loses of native species and an increase of invasive species are now the norm. Want to help fight climate change in any landscape? Learn how the plants you choose and the landscape practices you use can help reduce the impacts of climate change and improve the environment around you.