Activities & Events

Since 1998, The Annual Family Café has brought Floridians with all types of disabilities together for three days of information, training, and networking. With a great range of individual breakout sessions, a packed Exhibit Hall with dozens of vendors, and a series of...

We so enjoyed our morning at Whitehead's Blueberry Farm in Winter Haven.  We grabbed our buckets and set off on the tram to pick blueberries.  We spotted a small gator in the lake and a rabbit running through the blueberry bushes. We had such fun before heading over...

We gathered at Lake Mirror on April 9th for the 30th anniversary (and last) SPCA Walk for Animals.  We enjoyed meeting up with friends and supporting this wonderful organisation.  After walking aroud Lake Mirror, we headed up to the Saturday Farmer's Market in...

Well this was a very intergalactic afternoon's entertainment!!  Our group met at Grillsmith in Lakeland Village (there seems to be an underlying theme to our gatherings - food!!) then headed to RP Funding Center to check out Florida Tropics. Whether it was the threat...

Gail represented Harwood Village at the Community Senior Adult Health and Resource Fair on Friday March 11.  Along with more than 50 exhbitors, topics included addressing the Dimensions of Senior Living, Free Services Available to Assist you at Home and Home Care vs...

We celebrated Valentine's Day with our families and wonderfully supportive friends.  We prepared scrummy individually crafted flatbreads, pasta salad and Valentine kabobs and then made dreamcatchers. Thank you so much to Gail and Linda for hosting and organising the...

We kicked off the New Year with a soccer game here in Lakeland. We all met up at The Joinery in downtown Lakeland to catch up on each others latest news and enjoy a range of delicious food.   We then went off to RP Funding Center and watched Florida Tropics power past...

Huge “thanks” to Linda and Debby for arranging our day out at Sanding Ovations on Treasure Island. We had a fabulous time marveling at the sand sculptures, walking on the beach, tucking into a very tasty lunch and, of course, enjoying each other’s company. Looking...

What fun we had at our inaugural Harwood Village activity.  We gathered at Publix car park opposite our Harwood Village Southgate property, David passed out scavenger hunt sheets and the group split up and started detecting!!! There was great team work as we searched...

Gail Bagley shares how cohousing is a healthier way to live; more caring, more sustainable (sharing resources), safer, more equitable, more connected and more fun.   Learn how cohousing communities create a healthier, happier, safer and more sustainable community for...

Gail Bagley shares how conscious aging not only acknowledges that we are getting older; it celebrates it!  Learn the steps to becoming a consciouis elder, which is seeing life as full of purpose, growth, and in service to community. Presentation to RATH Senior...

Gail Bagley shares how, as people live longer, our concept of what it means to be old is rapidly changing.  A new phase of “Bonus Years” has been added to the human life-cycle.  Learn how conscious eldering can transform those bonus years into self-discovery, purpose...