Hillsborough Garden Club
The Hillsborough Garden Club was founded in 1922 and became a member of the Garden Club of America in 1929. The
purpose of The Garden Club of America is to stimulate the knowledge and
love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of
educational meetings, conferences, correspondence, and publications, and
to restore, improve and protect the quality of the environment through
educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic
improvement.
The Hillsborough Garden Club has a long history of promoting projects in conservation, preservation and restoration. In 1943 the Club won the GCA Founder’s Fund award which enabled the club to purchase a tract of redwoods for the Save the Redwoods League. The Club now contributes annually to the League. HGC also started the Interchange Fellowship Program during WWII which the GCA adopted in 1952.
This year the Club’s community projects include: funding a Filoli Internship, supporting Pie Ranch, a sustainable farm in Pescadero, California which has programs for inner city youth, and an involvement in the Pollinator Partnership, a highly regarded non-profit which protects and enhances pollinator invertebrates, birds, and mammals. It has also funded two community gardens in Hillsborough which the members planted.
Over many years the Hillsborough Garden Club has given grants to Coyote Point Museum now known as CuriOdyssey (hummingbird garden), Save the Bay (to help restore the wetlands), Golden Gate National Park Association (to help restore the Alcatraz Gardens), Quarry Hill Botanical Garden , San Mateo Arboretum (to help restore the Japanese Gardens) and San Mateo Parks and Recreation (to help with the information kiosk at Edgewood).
