Scholarship
The Bedford Garden Club offers annual scholarships to residents of Bedford and Hanscom Air Force Base who are current year graduates of Bedford High School, Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational Technical School, other secondary schools, or are home-schooled or complete GED requirements.
Scholarships are awarded to students who plan to study such fields as agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, landscape design, climatology, conservation, forestry, ecology, environmental science or engineering, natural history, botany, biology, land management or related areas.
The Bedford Garden Club Judith R. Brown Memorial Scholarship was established in 2020 and endowed by Nathaniel Brown to honor his late wife’s commitment to education, the gardening world, and our Club.
Applications for scholarships will be processed and reviewed under the auspices of CSF of Bedford Dollars for Scholars where applications are available.
Applications are accepted between March 1 – March 20 and will be presented in May at the annual CSF Dollars for Scholars ceremony.
2025 Recipients
Liam Green
The 2025 recipient of a $1,000 Bedford Garden Club Scholarship was awarded to Liam Green, a graduate of Bedford High where he was part of the Environmental Club at BHS and helped spread awareness about climate change and picked up litter in the school courtyards.
He worked on some local sustainability activities: helped with the Mothers Out Front pumpkin smashing day (promoting composting of food waste), set up an E-waste recycling program at Bedford High School, and was a member of the Environmental Club.
At UNH his studies will focus on environmental engineering courses such as Environmental Pollution and Protection, Green Building Design and Environmental Sampling and Analysis. When he graduates, he plans to work for a business that works on areas such as waste reduction, green energy and energy efficient transportation.
Bella Savoie
The 2025 recipient of the $1,000 Bedford Garden Club Judith R. Brown Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Bella Savoie.
She studied and did field work with the Acadia Institute of Oceanography in Maine and Florida, and with the Tropical Research and Education Center in Belize. She had a fellowship at the Seacoast Science Center where she did research and volunteered teaching about the Gulf of Maine intertidal zones.
Bella will be attending the University of Miami this upcoming fall majoring in marine biology and ecology.
She plans to obtain advanced degrees so she can teach marine science and do research on the effects on and mitigation of climate change on organisms such as sea stars and corals.
Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Scholarships
The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts (GCFM) – the statewide organization of garden clubs of which the Bedford Garden Club is a member — also offers 11 scholarships of $1,000 each. Two national scholarships of $2,000 each are also available through the National Garden Club; all students applying for the state scholarships will be considered for the national awards as well.
The GCFM and National Garden Club scholarship applications are due March 1st. The GCFM scholarships are available to students majoring in horticulture, floriculture, landscape design or architecture, conservation, forestry, agronomy, city planning, environmental students, land management, botany, biology and allied subjects. Awards are available to both undergraduate and graduate students.
Applications, financial aid forms and additional information for the GCFM and National Garden Club scholarships are available on the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts website.