Franklin Garden Club Program on New Age Floral Techniques

Kristin VanDijk, the founder of New Age Floral, will demonstrate how to create floral designs based on sustainable and regenerative floral practices at the February 3, 2026, Franklin Garden Club meeting. 

New Age Floral Techniques

The meeting will take place at the Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street, from 6:00– 8:30 p.m.  An informal social get-together will take place from 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. followed by a business meeting and the program. The meeting is open to the public at no charge, including those interested in becoming a member.    

 

New Age Floral provides floral professionals and hobbyists with eco-friendly solutions that replace unsustainable materials and contribute to a healthy, sustainable future.  Products include staples in the floral industry, such as the OshunPouch, a groundbreaking alternative to the traditional single-use ecologically toxic plastic floral foam block that sits in landfills. 

The OshunPouch is 100% sustainable, biodegradable, and home compostable.  VanDijk’s career spans leadership positions in garden clubs, owning flower shops, and pioneering online flower show education. She founded New Age Floral in 2020 and has grown the business to include numerous naturally sourced, regenerative materials to reduce the strain on the earth’s resources caused by the floral industry. 

The Franklin Garden Club is a member of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts

What's happening in Franklin, MA: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 ???

Tuesday, January 6

• Christmas trees scheduled for curbside pickup on your normal trash/recycling day

6:00pm Table Top (Franklin Public Library)

6:30pm Franklin Garden Club - monthly meeting (Franklin Senior Center)

Library & Senior Center events

For additional details on Library events -> 

https://www.franklinma.gov/942/Calendar-of-Events

For additional details on Senior Center events ->   

https://www.franklinma.gov/calendar.aspx?CID=37,24&showPastEvents=false

**  Town Meetings today   **

Police Station Building Committee Meeting

Tuesday, January 6 Time: 6:00 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01062026-2064 

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Find the full Community event calendar  https://bit.ly/FranklinCommunityCalendar

If you have an event to add to the calendar, you can use the form to submit it for publication:  https://bit.ly/Submit2Calendar

The Town meeting calendar is found  https://www.franklinma.gov/Calendar.aspx
The School district calendar is found  https://franklinpublicschooldistrictma.sites.thrillshare.com/o/fpsd/page/school-calendar

Reminder: Franklin Garden Club: Wreath and Holiday Arrangement Sale - Saturday, Dec 6

Franklin Garden Club: Wreath and
Holiday Arrangement Sale - Saturday, Dec 6

Saturday - December 6 Holiday Wreath and Arrangement Sale

The Franklin Garden Club will sell decorated holiday wreaths, swags, cemetery and patio boxes as well as table arrangements on Saturday, December 6 from 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM at Daddario’s Hardware Store, 528 West Central Street, Franklin, MA. 

Prices for all items range from $25 - $40.  

The Franklin Garden Club Instagram handle is @franklingardenclubma. Payment may be made with cash, credit card, check, or Venmo. 

Franklin Garden Club: Wreath and Holiday Arrangement Sale - Saturday, Dec 6

Franklin Garden Club: Wreath and
Holiday Arrangement Sale - Saturday, Dec 6

Saturday - December 6 Holiday Wreath and Arrangement Sale

The Franklin Garden Club will sell decorated holiday wreaths, swags, cemetery and patio boxes as well as table arrangements on Saturday, December 6 from 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM at Daddario’s Hardware Store, 528 West Central Street, Franklin, MA. 

Prices for all items range from $25 - $40.  

The Franklin Garden Club Instagram handle is @franklingardenclubma. Payment may be made with cash, credit card, check, or Venmo. 

What's happening in Franklin, MA: Tuesday, November 4, 2025 ???

Tuesday, November 4

Biennial Election Day - Franklin High school from 6 AM to 8 PM

all precincts vote in this one site

12:00pm Community Closet (Franklin United Methodist Church)

6:00pm Table Top (Franklin Public Library)

6:30pm Franklin Garden Club - monthly meeting (Franklin Senior Center)

For additional details on Library events ->    https://www.franklinma.gov/942/Calendar-of-Events

For additional details on Senior Center events ->   

https://www.franklinma.gov/calendar.aspx?CID=37,24&showPastEvents=false

**   Town Meetings today   **

Biennial Local Election

Tuesday, November 4th Time: 6:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Location: All Precincts Vote @ Franklin High School

Massachusetts Strategic Health Group Meeting

Tuesday, November 4 Time: 1:00 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-1989 

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Find the full Community event calendar  https://bit.ly/FranklinCommunityCalendar

If you have an event to add to the calendar, you can use the form to submit it for publication:  https://bit.ly/Submit2Calendar

The Town meeting calendar is found  https://www.franklinma.gov/Calendar.aspx
The School district calendar is found  https://franklinpublicschooldistrictma.sites.thrillshare.com/o/fpsd/page/school-calendar

Franklin Garden Club Offers Program on Mushrooms

“Identifying and Growing Your Own Mushrooms” will be the featured program at the November meeting of the Franklin Garden Club.   The meeting will take place on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at the Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street, from 6:00– 8:30 PM.   

Franklin Garden Club Offers Program on Mushrooms

An informal social get-together will take place from 6:00 – 6:30 PM followed by a business meeting and the program. Lauren Schmitt, a horticulturist at Weston Nurseries in Hopkinton, will present the program. The meeting is open to the public at no charge, including those interested in becoming a member. 

Schmitt graduated in 2010 from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Plant and Soil Science.  Her career began in environmental chemistry, before transitioning to indoor farming and hydroponics.  She now works as a Massachusetts Certified Horticulturist at Weston Nurseries, and an Orchard Consultant for Peas, Love and Parsley.  

Schmitt has always had a personal passion for growing her own food, whether it’s vegetables outside in the summer, or mushrooms, herbs and microgreens indoors year-round.  She started a small culinary mushroom farm prior to moving back to Massachusetts, and now enjoys teaching classes to people who want to grow more of their own food.

The Franklin Garden Club is a member of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts. 

Franklin Garden Club to explore “Bringing Books to Life” as a floral craft - Oct 7

Franklin Garden Club to explore
“Bringing Books to Life” as a floral craft - Oct 7

A “Bringing Books to Life” floral craft night will highlight the October meeting of the Franklin Garden Club. 

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at the Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street, from 6:00– 8:30 PM   An informal social get-together will take place from 6:00 – 6:30 PM followed by a business meeting and craft activity, which will be conducted by Deb DeGrazia, club secretary and expert crafter.  

The meeting is open to the public, including those interested in becoming a member.  All attendees are asked to bring a book that can be cut out for the decorative arrangement that will be created.  

  

The Franklin Garden Club is a member of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts.  

Franklin Garden Club September Program Open to New Members

The Franklin Garden Club will begin its 2025-2026 season on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, with a meeting at the Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street, from 6:00– 8:30 p.m.   An informal social get-together will take place from 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. followed by a presentation on the coming year’s programs and activities.   The meeting is open to the public, including those interested in becoming a member.  

Club Co-Presidents Eileen Smith and Janice Cederquist stated, “The Garden Club, founded in 1987, offers many educational programs, and one does not have to be a Master Gardener to join. Meetings provide a wonderful opportunity to learn about various aspects of gardening from experts and to exchange information with fellow members. We welcome anyone who is interested to attend the first meeting to learn more about the Club and planned activities.” 

Franklin Garden Club

In addition to the September  meeting, this year’s programming schedule includes: October 7 – Craft Night – Bringing Books to Life;  November 4- All About Mushrooms; December 2 – Holiday Greens Workshop to prepare for annual wreath and arrangement sale;  February 3 – Deep in the Heart of Winter – New Age Floral Designs;  March 3 – Flowers, Health and Healing; April 7 – Craft Project; May 5 – Orchid 101; June 2 - Year-End Social.

Club community service activities include planting and maintenance of the Franklin Town Common Garden and the planters at the Franklin Library and Franklin Food Pantry; sponsorship of an annual scholarship awarded to a high school graduate; distribution of pine tree seedlings in the elementary schools; and special projects with other community organizations. The Franklin Garden Club is a member of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts.  

Franklin Garden Club features "H is for Daylilies" - May 6

The Franklin Garden Club will offer a program on “H is for Daylilies” on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:00 PM at the Franklin Senior Center located at 10 Daniel McCahill Street. The program is open to the public at no charge.

"H is for Daylilies" - May 6

The program will be presented by Lifetime Master Gardener and Franklin Garden Club member Adele Turent. “H is for Daylilies” focuses on the origins of the modern daylily, the different bloom forms, its care, cultivation and breeding. Turent is a member of both the New England Daylily Society and the American Daylily Society (ADS). She is an ADS Garden Judge instructor. Garden judges are trained to evaluate daylilies in the garden, and their votes determine the daylilies that win national awards. Adele has taught Garden Judge Workshops at National and Regional ADS conventions in the U.S. as well as in Québec. 

 

From 2013 to 2018, Turent was the award-winning editor of Daylilies in the Great Northeast, an ADS regional publication. In 2019, she became the Executive Editor and Ad Sales Manager of The Daylily Journal, the American Daylily Society’s national, full color, quarterly magazine.

Garden Club prepared 500 seedlings for 1st Graders to plant

Garden Club prepared 500 seedlings for 1st Graders to plant

"Members of the Franklin Garden Club prepared nearly 500 bags of pine tree seedlings which were given out to first graders in the Franklin schools and Benjamin Franklin Classical Charter Public School to plant as a celebration of Arbor Day."

Shared from ->   https://www.instagram.com/p/DI-D2d5O30t/

Franklin TV: A Look Back

Ten Years Ago

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 04/06/2025

When we were building our studio (2013-2014) I documented every phase of construction. Lotsa Pix-n-Vidz in our photo archives. This past week I spent a few evenings compiling many of them into 3D stereograms – the old school origins of today’s hot digital/visual experience – VR, virtual reality. A stereogram is simply two photographs – one positioned for each eye, Left-Right. Think those Viewmaster disks many of us grew up with.

In the midst of my digital rummaging I wondered what we were up to ten years ago.

This is the Franklin Garden Club in 2015. They held a meeting in our Community Room and then recorded a cooking program in our kitchen. The first of many.

We officially moved out of our trailer and into the studio building in Mid-November. Here we are; four months later – partying and producing programs.

We still are. Do you have a program you would like to do? Call us. 508-541-4118.

And – as always –

Thank you for watching. 

Thank you for listening to wfpr●fm.

And staying informed at Franklin●news.

Get this week's program guide for Franklin.TV and Franklin Public Radio (wfpr.fm) online  http://franklin.tv/programguide.pdf   

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What's happening in Franklin, MA: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 ???

Tuesday, April 1

** Franklin Art Association Art Show and Sale Exhibit (Norfolk Public Library)

6:00pm Table Top (Franklin Public Library)

6:30pm Franklin Garden Club - monthly meeting (Franklin Senior Center)

7:00pm Musical Bingo (Raillery Public House)

For additional details on Library & Senior Center events ->       

https://www.franklinma.gov/calendar.aspx?CID=37,24&showPastEvents=false

** Town Meetings today   **

Franklin School Committee = Contractual Negotiations - Executive Session

Tuesday, April 1st Time: 4:00 PM

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-1586

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Why are there multiple calendars?

What's happening today in Franklin? 

Respectfully, the Library and Senior Center calendars are too full of events to include all their events so we tend to focus on the major events. Town and School meetings are also kept separate. Links for all the calendars are shared here:

Find the full Community event calendar  https://bit.ly/FranklinCommunityCalendar

If you have an event to add to the calendar, you can use the form to submit it for publication:  https://bit.ly/Submit2Calendar

The Town meeting calendar is found  https://www.franklinma.gov/Calendar.aspx
The School district calendar is found  https://franklinpublicschooldistrictma.sites.thrillshare.com/o/fpsd/page/school-calendars

Franklin Garden Club Presents Program on House Plants - April 1

The Franklin Garden Club will present a program on “What’s Wrong with My Houseplant” on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at the Franklin Senior Center, 10 Daniel McCahill Street, from 6:30– 8:30 PM.    An informal social get-together will take place from 6:30– 7:00 PM followed by the program, which is open to the public at no charge.The speaker will be Massachusetts Master Gardener Bonnie Power.

Franklin Garden Club

As with our outdoor gardens, many things can go wrong when you grow plants indoors. Learn the factors that make for happy houseplants, including light, water, and soil and how to provide them. Common houseplant pests and diseases, as well as how to treat them, will also be discussed.

Power, a serious outdoor/indoor gardener, has many horticultural interests and areas of expertise. She holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in zoology, which informs her perspective on the management of garden and plant insects and pests. She is a member of the MGA Soil pH Testing team and also volunteer guide at Garden in the Woods, a Native Plant Trust botanical garden in Framingham. 

The Garden Club presents "Hydrangea Ps and Qs" at Library on Tuesday, March 4

The Franklin Garden Club, in partnership with the Franklin Public Library, will offer a talk on Hydrangea Ps and Qs on Tuesday, March 4, at 7:00 PM at the Franklin Library located at 118 Main Street, Franklin, MA. 

The Garden Club presents "Hydrangea Ps and Qs"

The program is open to the public at no charge.

Hydrangea Ps and Qs Covers Planting, pH, Pruning, Problems and audience questions. The program will be presented by Lifetime Master Gardener Kathie Skinner and will address common issues related to growing beautiful hydrangeas, including when and how to plant; how to raise or lower the soil PH to control bloom color; when and how to prune hydrangea that bloom on old wood and new wood; and common fungal problems and pests. 

There will also be an opportunity to ask questions.

Shared from -> https://www.instagram.com/p/DGhHrkHo5UX/

Garden Club still has some centerpieces/floral arrangements 4 sale

Garden Club still has some centerpieces 4 sale

The Franklin Garden Club still has 4 centerpieces for sale (as this goes to post)

You can check them out on the Garden Club Instagram page -> 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DD4qq8xxijt/

What's happening in Franklin, MA: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 ???

Tuesday, December 17

• Fiber Art Installation (Franklin Public Library)
• Fresh Floral Holiday Arrangements 4 Sale (via Instagram) 
• Franklin Art Association, Art Show & Sale (Norfolk Public Library)

6:00pm Table Top (Franklin Public Library)

7:30pm Voice of Franklin, part of Toastmasters International (Franklin TV Studio)

**  Town Meetings today   **

Franklin Public Schools Community Relations Sub Committee Meeting (virtual only)

Event Date:  Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 5:30pm

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/events/franklin_public_schools_community_relations_sub_committee_meeting_2.pdf

Friends of Franklin Library Meeting

Event Date:  Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 7:00pm

No agenda posted

Joint Budget Subcommittee Meeting (Council Chambers & broadcast)

Event Date:  Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 7:00pm

https://www.franklinma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif10036/f/agendas/2024-12-17_joint_budget_subcommittee_meeting_agenda.pdf

What's happening today in Franklin? 

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Why are there multiple calendars?

Respectfully, the Library and Senior Center calendars are too full of events to include all their events so we tend to focus on the major events. Town and School meetings are also kept separate. Links for all the calendars are shared here:

Find the full Community event calendar  https://bit.ly/FranklinCommunityCalendar

If you have an event to add to the calendar, you can use the form to submit it for publication:  https://bit.ly/Submit2Calendar

The Library calendar of events ->    calendar link

The Senior Center calendar of events ->   https://www.franklinma.gov/node/39/events/upcoming

The Town meeting calendar is found  https://www.franklinma.gov/calendar
The School district calendar is found  https://franklinpublicschooldistrictma.sites.thrillshare.com/o/fpsd/page/school-calendars