Garden-to-Garden Volunteer Committee 

The 2009 Garden-to-Garden Project

The Retreat in Nassau, Bahamas

                                    2009 Committee members (from left to right) George Gates, Yonna Levine, Stacy DeMeo, Pauline Goldsmith, and Cornelia Hurst (not pictured: Lynn Leverett).  The Committee is shown at the 2008 Spring Social where raffle prize winners were announced.

In 2008, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden volunteers formed a Garden-to-Garden Committee whose purpose is to raise funds to support FTBG partner gardens around the world as well as Fairchild projects.  In Garden-to-Garden's first project, funds were used to purchase tools and equipment for the Arboretum d'Antsokay in Madagascar to help develop a regional conservation center for their unique spiny forests. 

In spring 2009, Garden-to-Garden raised funds to support the Retreat, an 11 acre garden in the heart of Nassau, Bahamas.   The funds helped the Retreat to restore the habitat around their "Green Hell" sinkhole.

Garden-to-Garden Committee members organize and plan all aspects of these fundraising events from researching appropriate projects to selling tickets, planning raffles and competitions and soliciting community support.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!