Navesink Garden Club Announces Lineup Of Fall 2026 Events

RED BANK, NJ — The Navesink Garden Club has announced its lineup of events for the Fall 2026 season.

Set to kick off on Sept. 8, all club meetings will take place at the Atrium on 40 Riverside Avenue in Red Bank. Free valet parking is available.

The club's upcoming fall events include:

Tuesday, Sept. 8

• 11 a.m.
• A hands-on approach to learning to doodle, botanical art with master doodler Art Kaney, the “Doodle Dude.” Art has been educating and inspiring children and adults with his skills of doodling art for years. He will work with attendees, using pencils and paper, teaching attendees a new way to look at botanical art. All supplies will be provided.

Tuesday, Oct. 13

• 11 a.m.
• Sandy Gordon will discuss sculptor Seward Johnson and the making of Grounds for Sculpture. To choose the arts as your life’s ambition, to find your own voice, is to choose a path that is difficult and frustrating. To walk away from your family inheritance to pursue your art is even more astonishing! But this is the story of John Seward Johnson II, who was one of the heirs of the Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Company, who walked away, chose to be a sculptor, and then created his sculpture in a style totally opposite from that of his art period, and then established Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, for the public to appreciate! Come to hear the “rest of the story!”

Tuesday, Nov. 10

• 11 a.m.
• The club will have an “Art In Bloom Exhibit.” Club members will display their floral designs interpreting artworks. Designers can choose their own artwork, or one provided by the Design Chair. Designs will be critiqued by our own NGC Accredited Master Judge Marina Kerber.

Founded in 1948, the Navesink Garden Club is a member of the National Garden Clubs, Inc and the Garden Club of New Jersey Central Atlantic Region.

The club currently serves the Red Bank community in many ways, including performing weekly care and maintenance of the Beautification Planters throughout downtown Red Bank.

In addition to this care and maintenance, members also meet monthly with residents of The Atrium in Red Bank to create individual floral arrangements.

The latest addition to the club’s responsibilities is the maintenance of the garden and beds at No Limits Cafe (NLC), a restaurant employing adults with intellectual disabilities located on Rt. 35 in Red Bank.

The club volunteers with the NLC employees in the flower, herb and vegetable gardens, teaching them how to plant, grow, and maintain the landscape.

The herbs and vegetables are then used in the restaurant to create meals for public and private events.

A club member provided a grant to the Monmouth Museum to assist in the creation and maintenance of a nature setting adjacent to the museum on the Brookdale Community College campus. The nature setting also includes a Little Free Library for children.

This “Betty Jean & Karl Meyer Art and Nature Area” is a beautiful garden for visitors to experience art and nature in a natural setting.

The Navensink Garden Club offers a scholarship annually to a Brookdale Community College student who is pursuing a degree in horticulture, landscape design, or agriculture for an environmentally related field.

To learn more about the Navesink Garden Club, you can visit their website.