Gardeners' Guild of Braintree

The popular Christmas House Tour and Boutique, presented annually for 38 holiday seasons by The Gardeners’ Guild of Braintree, will be held on Sunday, December 8th.  The Boutique will be held at Braintree Town Hall from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and is open to the public for a $2.00 entry fee.  (House Tour ticket holders have free admission.)  The House tour runs from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Tickets will be $16 in advance or $20 on the 8th.  One dollar of every ticket will benefit the Braintree Historical Society, working in association with the Guild this year.
 

Banville takes over as Gardeners' Guild of Braintree president by Robert Aicardi (The Braintree Forum)

Donna Banville is looking forward to collaborating with the Braintree Historical Society and Sustainable Braintree during her yearlong term as president of the Gardeners’ Guild of Braintree, a nonprofit organization formed in 1975.

Since its inception, the Guild has awarded a scholarship annually to a senior graduating from Braintree High School who will continue his or her education in a field related to guild interests, e.g. environmental studies, global warming, landscaping, botany, marine biology, among others.
 
This year The Gardeners’ Guild of Braintree awarded two $1,000 scholarships to students graduating from Braintree High School.  

This year Spring came with the much anticipated new Adopt-an-Island signs.  More than two dozen beautifully hand-carved and hand-painted signs were painstakingly completed by Mike McCarthy of Yankee Woodcarvers.  Each sign displays the name of an Adopt-an-Island sponsor under the Seal of the Town of Braintree.  Mike McCarthy from Yankee Woodcarvers has finished the painstaking process of hand painting these new signs and has started placing them around townMore than two dozen Adopt an Island signs have been replaced with beautiful hand-carved wooden, hand-painted versions.