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Our volunteer activities

December 5, 2025 bkrammes21 Leave a comment

Some of our garden club members are in action to taking care of the kitchen garden at Tweed’s Tavern and decorating the Tavern and Museum for the holidays.

Another Holiday volunteer opportunity Countryside participates in is the Festival of Trees that benefits Delaware Hospice. Our 2025 tree theme was The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Everyone contributed to making the ornaments.

Our fall volunteer opportunity is participating in the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition A Walk for the Cure by staffing the survivors tent Bee-lieve in a Cure. Small plants were given away to any participant.

Community News, Member's Activities

Tweed’s Tavern and the Museum, a letter from Kathe

Image July 11, 2018 bkrammes21 Leave a comment

Our Countryside Garden Club member, Kathe sent us an interesting letter talking about her family history connected with the history of Tweed’s Tavern. With Kathe’s permission, we would like to share with you her letter which can be accessed in the link below.

Tweeds Museum

Members of the Countryside Garden Club maintain the garden around the historic Tavern and a new raised bed colonial kitchen garden (herb garden) is planned to be implemented this summer. (Photos of Tweed’s Tavern and the Museum by Hiro)

Member's Activities

Visiting ‘Farm for the City’ in Philadelphia

Gallery June 28, 2018 bkrammes21 1 Comment

I was at a medical conference in Philadelphia for three days this week and took a stroll in the city during my lunch break. This was my first walking tour of the city and I was happy to find “Farm for the City” sponsored by Philadelphia Horticultural Society and others.

It was amazing to see all sorts of vegetables such as tomato, corn, cucumber, lettuce, growing in the middle of the great city. They looked healthy and delicious. Here are some of my photos from the farm for the city and the surroundings.

CGC News

Kathe’s Discovery!

February 18, 2016 bkrammes21 Leave a comment

Our Countryside Garden Club member, Kathe bought a book at a yard sale. The book’s title was “The Encyclopedia of Judging and Exhibiting Floriculture and Flora Artistry by Esther Veramae Hamel.

As she opened the book, she found a Countryside Garden Club Membership List of 1994 tacked in the pages. And the book used to belong to a CGC member, Joan Frey!

I did some research on the club history and found a couple of newspaper articles.

The photo directly below was found in the Hockessin Community News published on August 17, 1995. The caption was “Countryside Garden Club wins award for DNS project.

Pictured (left to right) club members are Kris Qualls, Joanne Deaton, Pat Boyd, and Patti McCarter. Helen Fischer of the DNS is on the right.

The article on the bottom right : The caption below the photo reads ” Countryside Garden members (left to right) Pat Boyd, Alice Bucher, Peg Lord and Joanne Deaton, hold leadership positions in the Delaware Federation of Garden Clubs flower show. (date unknown)

Member's Activities

Kathe’s Holiday Spirits

December 16, 2015 bkrammes21 Leave a comment

Kathe made all these and 24 more advent centerpieces for her church. She said, “It took about 2 weeks to create them and one hour to pack them up.”

Garden Tour

Photos from Hopesview, New Brunswick, Canada

December 1, 2015 bkrammes21 Leave a comment

Our Countryside Garden Club member, Hope shared her beautiful collections of nature photography from her summer home, at Hopesview in New Brunswick, Canada.

Hope loves how frost defines the edges, each one blade becomes a singular piece of art within the whole. “Cool Literally.”

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Look what I found on Blackenville Rd. this morning!

October 18, 2015 bkrammes21 Leave a comment

October 17 was the DelDot’s statewide cleanup day. Members and a friend of the club cleaned Blackenville Road in Hockessin on Saturday morning.

“Look what I found on Blackenville Rd. this morning. Now if I could find the mate…” said Pat.

Events of the month

A visit at Brader’s wetland habitat

October 15, 2015 bkrammes21 Leave a comment

This morning, members of Countryside Garden Club visited Brader Elementary School in Newark, DE to meet with Sharon Brubaker, a national award winning librarian, who developed the unique program about wetland habitats for the Brader students. She introduced us to the wetland in the school property and showed us some interesting wetland species. You can learn more about the Delaware’s wetlands programs at the Division of Watershed Stewardship website. Thank you Sharon for your excellent work.