MAY EVENTS..........

Women Build women can't stop planning!! Not only are we actively engaged in training women with new skills, developing women as crew leaders, but we're also planning numerous events to help celebrate our work and raise money to ensure our goal of $70,000 will be met.

On May 5, at Time and Space Limited our two organizations: TSL and Women Build are celebrating Cinco De Mayo from 6-8; Join Bread and Puppet Theatre, enjoy fabulous food by Picante Uno.... and tenga un buen tiempo with friends and family. $20 per person and $ 5 for children under 12. To find out more about this event, go to http://www.timeandspace.org/.

On May 18, join Suzy Bales who has turned her lifelong passion for cooking and gardening into a career as she shares with us incredible ways to enjoy down to earth gardening. A wonderful opportunity to celebrate Women Build, spring and enjoy lunch and auction at Columbia Golf and Country Club, Claverack from 11:30- 2:00.$50 per person.

Suzy Bales has had her own weekly gardening column in Newsday for two years, joined Family Circle as their contributing garden editor for twelve years. She wrote for The New York Times and Better Homes & Gardens as the Sr. Editor for Gardening and Outdoor Living from 2004 until early 2007. She has been featured in Ladies Home Journal, House Beautiful, Better Homes and Gardens, Horticulture, Beautiful Gardens, and Easy Gardening.

Suzy is the author of 13 books. The first eight books were in the Burpee American Gardening Series: Bulbs, Perennials, Annuals, Vegetables, Container Gardening, Roses and Vines, and Ready, Set, Grow, a book on children’s gardening. She has also written: Gifts from Your Garden, Garden Parties, A Garden of Fragrance, The Down-To-Earth Gardner, The Garden in Winter.

Suzy won the Garden Writer of the Year Award from the American Horticultural Society in 1995, and has twice been awarded the Quill and Trowel Award by The Garden Writers of America. In 2007 she received the Elizabeth Hamilton Great American Philanthropist award for her twenty-five years of volunteer work with abused and homeless children.

Many cooks and gardeners recognize Suzy from her frequent TV appearances on ABC and NBC as well as her series of garden spots on Good Morning America. She travels and lectures constantly and has been the featured speaker at Epcot, the Williamsburg Garden Symposium and other flower shows across the country including Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, St. Lewis and Atlanta.

Stay tuned to our website and even more events.....much is being planned for June as we continue to build a home, friends and supporters of Women Build.