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Second Annual Jensen Beach

Garden Expo – Feb. 25 – Save
The Date!

The Second Annual Jensen
Beach Garden Expo will take
place on Saturday, Feb. 25,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Indian
Riverside Park, 1701 N.E.
Indian River Drive, in Jensen
Beach on the grassy area north of the Children’s Museum
of the Treasure Coast. gardens at Hoke Library, Indian Riverside Park, the log
The Garden Expo is a specialty garden show featuring raised by the expo to provide summer camp scholarship cabin at Langford Park, and the planters in downtown Jensen
quality vendors showcasing plants and trees. You can also opportunities for children in need at the Environmental Beach. JBGC also donated to House of Hope’s Travel Garden
find gardening supplies, garden art, and accessories for Studies Center. In past years, JBGC has supported Martin for their community and education gardens. Other projects:
the garden or patio for sale. The show also includes free County’s “Kids in Camp” program and the U.S. Sailing A gumbo limbo tree planting at the Gertrude Walden Child
educational presentations and demonstrations. Learn more Center of Martin County. Care Center on Arbor Day 2022, various tree plantings at
about growing fruit trees in your yard, how to repot an Admission is free and open to all! Indian Riverside Park and Hoke Library, planted gardens
orchid, shop for exotic plants, and so much more at this fun Jensen Beach Garden Club, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit at Jensen Beach Elementary School, and the purchase and
educational plant and garden fair. established in 1950. It has helped to maintain the beauty dedication of the Blue Star Marker at the Rio Arch to honor
This year’s Garden Expo will raise money to support and ecological balance of the Martin County, Florida area. men and women who have served in the military. Join us!
House of Hope’s Community and Education Gardens. Last In April 2022, the club received the Keep Martin Beautiful Please visit us at JensenBeachGardenClub.com.
year, the Jensen Beach Garden Club (JBGC) donated funds Environmental Stewardship Award for maintaining the public Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
Club newS

Protecting Our Environmental and restore central Florida’s Ocklawaha River. To this day, Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida’s Environment.
Heritage With The Martin the river is blocked by remnants of the Cross Florida Barge Macdonald received her Ph.D. in American history from
the University of Florida.
Canal, a project that Carr and her fellow Florida Defenders
County Genealogical Society of the Environment stopped before its completion. Dr. Blake Library, 2351 S.E. Monterey Road in Stuart, from 1
Free and open to the public, the meeting will be at the
Macdonald will share images from Carr’s collection, the
Although genealogists are primarily focused on Matheson History Museum and other repositories. to 3 p.m., Friday, March 17. To participate via Zoom, go to
discovering their human ancestry, our geographical Native Floridian Peggy Macdonald, Ph.D., is a public mcgsfl.org and register by March 16.
environment is also an important aspect of our shared historian and adjunct professor who has taught at Stetson The Genealogical Society offers a variety of services
heritage. At the Martin County Genealogical Society’s University, Indian River State College and Southern at the Genealogy Room in the Blake Library in Stuart
March 2023 meeting, Dr. Peggy Macdonald will discuss New Hampshire University. She has written about local including an extensive research library, access to several
her book, Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida’s and Florida history for FORUM magazine, Gainesville genealogy websites and assistance from MCGS volunteers.
Environment. For 35 years, Carr, a self-described “housewife Magazine, Our Town Magazine and Senior Times. In For more information about membership, activities and
from Micanopy,” led a coalition of citizen activists to protect 2014, the University Press of Florida published her book, services go to mcgsfl.org.

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