The Little Garden Club of Rye
The Little Garden Club of Rye provides grants and donations to organizations and individuals in our community that share our mission and purpose.
The Rye Nature Center Nature Station
LGC donated $20,000 to the Rye Nature Center to help sponsor the purchase of their Nature Station - a mobile Nature Center.
With this vehicle, they can bring environmental education to children that do have access to nature.
Annual Donations
Every Spring, LGC makes donations to support a number of local organizations.
These include:
Friends of Rye Town Park
Friends of the Marshlands
The Rye Nature Center
The Jay Heritage Center
The Rye Free Reading Room
Rye Sustainability Committee
Daffodils
We donated daffodil bulbs to local schools and Rye Town Park.
Scholarship
The Little Garden Club of Rye scholarship is awarded to a Rye High School senior who has demonstrated a commitment and passion for environmental science, horticulture or sustainability and conservation of resources within Rye.
We received a Founders Fund Award of $40,000 for the Marshlands Conservancy. This grant will be used to help restore the native habitat in the meadow at Marshlands Conservatory; the oldest known continuously-managed meadow in New York State.
We received a Partners for Plant Award for the Marshlands Conservancy Understory Restoration.
This award is focused on restoring native habitat on federal, state and local public lands throughout the United States.
We received Grants from the Garden Club of America to help local organizations achieve their missions
We received a $40,000 Founders Fund Award for the Jay Heritage Center to replant indigenous and historic northeastern species to create an edible plant learning Center at the Jay Estate
In 2023, we applied for a $25,000 Restoration Initiative Grant for the Rye Nature Center, after Hurricane Ida's devastation of our local community. The Blind Brook carried tons of debris through the town and the Nature Center, damaging the banks of the Brook and several habitats.