Where We’ve Been
The GBG campaign was introduced at a Town Hall meeting February 10th and received enthusiastic encouragement from meeting attendees.

In keeping with its commitment to community involvement and education, Grow Berlin Green awarded scholarships to four local teachers to attend the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education conference in Ocean City.  Jeanene Gwin and Victor Hall of Berlin Intermediate School, Pat Johnson of Stephen Decatur Middle School and Jessica Patterson of Stephen Decatur High School were the recipients of the special Grow Berlin Green scholarships.

GBG’s official launch was at Berlin’s Spring Celebration in May. Here GBG gave out free reusable shopping bags, sold rain barrel raffle tickets, held a child’s workshop activity of making birdfeeders using old milk and juice container, gave information and a demonstration on solar power and handed out information on going green. The first ‘De Litter the Ditch’ clean up was scheduled for that morning but unfortunately was cancelled due to the weather. BUT we have to say thank you to all of those who committed to our first effort and came to the Coffee Beanery in spite of the weather.  A BIG thank you to Lyssa Sebia and her green team as they cleaned their ditch the day before the scheduled event so they missed the bad weather!

GBG attended the opening day of Berlin Farmers’ Market and handed out reusable bags. More bags will be distributed to market vendors so that they can discourage the use of plastic bags. New displays with free bags are being distributed to Berlin merchants with donation jars.

GBG will be contributing monthly articles to the local paper the Maryland Coastal Dispatch featuring green events we can all take advantage of and green living tips.