Lake Hills Contributions and Projects

LHGC has made it a priority to enhance the lives of children with nature and the environment. Our contributions to these organizations reflect this concept. We will continue to contribute to the betterment of children through nature and look forward to additional opportunities to do so.

Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students

BUGS is a multidisciplinary after-school program that serves 2nd-5th grade students from Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School with meaningful hands-on academic enrichment activities that complement the school day. The program provides a dynamic learning environment at Living Classrooms’ East Harbor Campus, with access to a greenhouse, vegetable and flower gardens planted by the students, two egg-laying hens, three classrooms, a cooking lab, and the last remaining wetlands on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

Cylburn Arboretum Nature Camp

This camp focuses on the environment and teaches children (ages 5 to 10) knowledge of and respect for nature and their surroundings. They explore the 200-acre park with counselors who teach them about plants, trees, flowers, pollinators, animal habitats, insects, birds, bats and more. Children learn to appreciate the natural world and create nature-themed crafts such as: leaf rubbings, seed bombs, and indigo dying. Throughout a week-long session, activities are mixed with eco-oriented games and lunch locales set in different gardens. Children learn to be good stewards of our environment.

Little Leaves at the Rawlings Conservatory

Little Leaves is a science-based learning program for second grade students in Druid Hill Park, Mondawmin, and other neighborhoods surrounding the Conservatory. The Little Leaves curriculum is designed to support and supplement the Maryland State Science Standards for the second grade. Students complete Little Leaves with a better understanding of how plants work, knowledge of what plants need to survive in different habitats, how to use their senses to observe natural phenomenon, and how to visually illustrate their observations through drawing.

Family and Children’s Services Memorial Garden

Members assist the staff of the Family and Children’s Services of Central Maryland to plant and maintain additional perennials and shrubs in their Memorial Garden at Park Avenue. Bobbi Hahn, Robin Roszel, John Pohlemus, along with other club members have been active in ensuring this green oasis in the neighborhood is maintained.

Growing Green Leaders at Irvine Nature Center

This program develops close and meaningful relationships with both students and teachers with the goal of increasing environmental literacy and awareness. Irvine works with teachers to create extension units that align with current curriculum but challenge students and increase their environmental literacy. Through hands-on experiments, customized stewardship projects, and outdoor field studies, students are exposed to content and experiences that are not found in the general curriculum and allow them to make real world connections to their existing curriculum.

Maryland School for the Blind – Art Therapy Projects

Our garden club has volunteered for many years at MSB. Our visits to the kindergarten classes involved reading, engaging students with hands on materials to help them understand concepts related to nature and the environment and crafts for the children to keep and share with their families. As a statewide resource center, The Maryland School for the Blind provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent and well-rounded contributing members of their communities as possible.

Gilchrist – Centerpieces for the Viet Nam Veterans Luncheon

Gilchrist’s Welcome Home celebration honors Viet Nam veterans as well as all of the veterans in our community. Gilchrist’s 2nd Annual Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day Celebration was held on March 30, 2019 at Martin’s West in Baltimore. With over 900 attendees this year, Gilchrist honors and thanks the men and women who served our country. Club Members made over 100 floral arrangements for this celebration.