We are happy to announce that our third annual Grand Marais Garden Tour will take place on June 28th from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm starting on the Green Space by the bay in Grand Marais, Mi, $10.00 admission. With this new date, we are hoping for a showy display of early season flowers.

We are grateful to all of you who attended last year's event. It was quite a fiasco. No rain all spring. Then the day of the tour: rain, wind, and very cold. The tents wanted to fly and poor Melissa along with her crew was trying to keep the auction items dry. Much to our surprise and delight, we grossed $1,000 more than the previous year, thanks to all the hardy souls that attended.

This year we will be expanding our event. In addition to gardens, music, art, door prize, and auction, we will be adding gardening workshops. We're hoping to make this our best year ever.

The workshops will include: soil preparation, self watering earth boxes, keeping away deer, methods of composting and mulching, and you can also participate in embellishing a water can with paint. We are really excited about this new addition.

As many of you know, our proceeds go towards the purchase of The Green Space, and also benefit Eastern UP Search and Rescue. This year part of our proceeds and volunteer work will help Burt Township School establish an edible schoolyard program, which will teach students how to grow and consume healthy foods.

The purpose of the Grand Marais Garden Club is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meeting, correspondence and publications, and to restore improve, and protect the quality of the environment through education. One of the best ways to help a community is to support a volunteer program. Any questions call Barb at 906-494-2299, or email her at rbwhaley@jamadots.com.