Wellington Garden Club (WGC) will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, April 7, 2025 at the Wellington Community Center, at 12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd. The meeting will feature a presentation at 10:00 AM by Charmaine Peters, Farm Director at Arden Farm.
Charmaine Peters is currently the Farm Director at Arden, an award-winning Agrihood in Loxahatchee, Florida. Arden Farm serves as a community resource for food education and home-grown fruits and vegetables. Her talk will focus on plant diseases in the garden and how to safely control or eliminate them.
Previously, Peters spent 16 years managing a 60-acre family farm in Pennsylvania. She has been quoted as a farm and garden expert in several national publications, including US News and World Report and Martha Stewart Living. Charmaine also writes monthly articles for AroundWellington.com, an online publication serving Wellington and surrounding areas.
The community is invited to join club members for coffee and a plant raffle beginning at 9:30 a.m. Visitors are asked to check in at the guest table. Seating is limited. To reserve a spot, contact Carol Ralph at: [email protected].
Wellington Garden Club, founded in 1981, is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to educating its members and the public in the fields of gardening, horticulture, floral design, and landscape design; and to promoting conservation of natural resources, civic beautification and youth education. For more information: www.wellingtongardenclub.org.