The Secret Garden Gala Fundraiser Flourished!
We are deeply thankful to each of the generous sponsors, donors, volunteers, and folks who danced the night away at the Bixby’s 2025 Secret Garden Gala Fundraiser. Your support makes our library bloom and grow, funding vital programs, services, and collections for our five-town community. Please thank these individuals when you see them and make it a point to shop with these business donors and tell them thank you, too!
Peony Sponsors
- Dennis & Vicki Hopper
- The Millstone Foundation
Rose Sponsors
- The Ewing Family
- Clarke & Cathie Keenan
- Nancy Remsen
Tulip Sponsors
- Eileen & Ed Brennan
- Kris & Barney Bristow
- Friends of the Bixby
- The Langstaff Family
- Peter & Liz Markowski
- Otter Creek Engineering
- Vergennes Animal Hospital
- Vergennes Grand
Daffodil Sponsors
- Anonymous
- 7 Green LLC
- Champlain Periodontal
- Pat Mayo and Ralph Shepard
- Jeff & Wendy Tweedy
- PJ Welch Corporation
Daisy Sponsors
- Benton Real Estate Appraisers
- The Bolduc & Mullin Family
- Thomas Borchert and Rhonda Williams
- Gaines Insurance Agency Inc.
- Glen Peck Electric
- Jackman Fuels Inc.
- Jeffry Glassberg
- The Royal Group
- Silver Maple
- Tom & Carol Spencer
- Vermont Integrated Architecture, PC
- Vermont Nursery & Landscape Association
Food, Beverage, Decor, and Advertising Donors
- 3 Squares Café
- Addison Four Corners
- Addison County Independent
- Adventure Dinner
- Black Sheep Bistro
- Daily Chocolate
- Deborah Schlosser
- Diddle & Zen
- Jim Larrow
- Kelly Sweeney
- Martha Sanborn
- Northland Career Center Culinary Arts
- Park Squeeze
- Red Wagon Plants
- Shadow Glen Orchard
- Sweet Charity
- The Holt
- Vergennes Laundry
Auction Item Donors
- 10 Green St
- Abby Matson
- Adventure Dinner
- Aubuchon Hardware
- Basin Harbor
- Bethany Farrell
- Bixby Board Members
- BJ’s Farm Supply
- Bob & Julie Jones
- Cabot Creamery
- Carol Spencer
- Cobble Creek Nursery
- Comfort Hill Kennel
- David Meath
- Diddle & Zen
- Dominique de Bonneval
- ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
- Everything Nice
- Flying Pig Bookstore
- Gilfeather’s Fine Provisions
- Gourmet Gift Baskets
- Green Mountain Shakti
- Greenhaven Gardens & Nursery
- Hannaford
- Hare and the Dog
- Hilda Marshall
- Jessica’s at The Swift House Inn
- Joan Burt
- Little City Cycles
- Little Seed Coffee Roasters
- Lost Lantern Whiskey
- lu.lu & Doug Mack
- Malabar
- Middlebury Agway
- Middlebury Natural Food Co-op
- Mike Winslow
- Miles Sherts
- Runamok
- Shelburne Farms
- Shelburne Museum
- Snowbound Kennels
- Stone Block Antiques
- Stone Mill
- Sweet Charity
- The Tillerman Inn & Restaurant
- Toad Hall Flowers
- Town Hall Theater
- True Path Healing Arts
- Ursa Major
- Vergennes Animal Hospital
- Vermont Lake Monsters
- Vermont Teddy Bear
- WowToyz, Inc.
Event Volunteers
- Matt Aronson
- Kristin Benton
- Lesley Bienvenue
- Bethanie Brady Farrell
- Eileen Brennan
- David Croke
- Jamie Edwards-Orr
- Merle Edwards-Orr
- Taijia Fish
- Olivia Hays
- Liz Hays
- Bob Jones
- Julie Jones
- Mark Koenig
- Peter Quinn
- Nancy Remsen
- Eliza Spencer
Board of Trustees Clean Up Crew
- Tania Bolduc
- Tom Borchert
- Marsha Hoffman
- Deena Miller
- Erin Roche
- Silas Towler
Secret Garden Gala Fundraiser Committee
- Eileen Brennan
- Bethanie Brady Farrell
- Catharine Hays
- Bob Jones
- Julie Jones
- Amber Lay
- Laura Mack
- Abby Matson
- Sas Stewart
- Cedar Winslow