Imagine Forestville and Fredonia Garden Club are excited and proud to announce that they are once again working together to bring BLOOM 2024, a Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation event, to the residents of Forestville.

This is NCCF’S 5th Annual BLOOM Event geared to promote residential front yard gardening for the beauty of our communities.

NCCF describes Project BLOOM as “a way to acknowledge home gardeners who contribute to the curb appeal of northern Chautauqua’s neighborhoods and to encourage all residents to take part in making our community a more beautiful place. It is a way to say thank you for the color, character and beauty that residents bring to our community.”

“We are so excited to be a part of this amazing NCCF event to beautify our community! Posters have been up in the hamlet since June inviting residents to prepare, so it’s almost “Showtime,” remarked Aimee Rogers, President of Imagine Forestville. “Imagine Forestville and Fredonia Garden Club are so happy to have been accepted into this very community-minded event!”

How Project BLOOM Works

If you live within the former Forestville village limits or one mile outside the limits:

— No need to sign-up! Just have your front garden/yard eye catching and your house number visible.

— Be ready! July is here and the we will canvass the Forestville community soon and decide which front yards have the most BLOOMING curb appeal.

— The committee will look at flowers, shrubbery, yard tidiness, trimming, decorations, uniqueness and your house number! The committee hopes to see yards that will inspire others to create a more beautiful, vibrant Forestville.

— Residents’ gardens that are chosen will receive a BLOOM garden recognition sign and a chance to win other gifts.

For more information about participating in Forestville Project BLOOM, please contact Rogers at 716-870-5087 or Carol McEntarfer at 716-965-4262

NCCF is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt community corporation incorporated in 1986, created by and for the people of northern Chautauqua County dedicated to a simple, powerful and highly personal approach to giving focused on local Philanthropy for the betterment of all community residents.

The Fredonia Garden Club’s mission was established in 1924 to preserve wildlife and the environment and encourage community beautification. The club includes several Forestville residents.

Imagine Forestville, formed in 2018, is dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the richly historic hamlet as a welcoming rural community.