This from President Christine Nagy:
Should we be able to congregate by May 19th, we believe we should change the Garden Auction to a Plant Sale. The main reason is that it would not be in good conscience and very insensitive of us to ask businesses for donations when many of them will be stretched to their limits.
We could still sell herbs, veggie, and tomato plants that we purchase from Tillsonburg Garden Gate and sell donations from our members who may prove even more generous given our situation. There would be no prize table and no bake table, given how germ phobic we are right now.
If we can’t have a Plant Sale on May 19th, we can always organize one later in the season when the rules of isolation and social-distancing are hopefully relaxed. We may even have a fall Plant Sale if only to get a few hundred dollars into our coffers.