{"id":18,"date":"2021-02-22T22:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:04:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Garden Club of Brookfield was founded in 1962 and joined the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut in 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OUR MISSION STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"line-height:1.5\">The club shall operate as a non-profit organization working toward the beautification of Brookfield and educating our members and the community on good gardening practices and the conservation of our environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OUR GARDENS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Welcome to Brookfield Sign<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Museum Garden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flagpole Triangle Garden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Williams Park and Blue Star Memorial Gardens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Library Entrance and Community Room Garden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OUR PROJECT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Holiday Wreaths and Decorations for Town<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>OUR OFFICERS OCTOBER 2025-SEPTEMBER 2027<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>President: Joanne McKendry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vice-President: Annie Casella<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treasurer: Pam Liming<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recording Secretary: Dianne Mariano<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corresponding Secretary: Norma Jean Macauto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Garden Club of Brookfield was founded in 1962 and joined the Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut in 1963. OUR MISSION STATEMENT The club shall operate as a non-profit organization working toward the beautification of Brookfield and educating our members and the community on good gardening practices and the conservation of our environment. OUR GARDENS &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}