FOUNDED IN 1931, the West Hartford Garden Club works to improve and beautify our community. Since 1987, the major sources of funding for these projects have been our Garden Tour (click here to request more info) and Plant Sale through ticket sales and Sponsorships. THANK YOU !
West Hartford Climate Emergency Resolution
CURRENT AND ONGOING CIVIC PROJECTS:
Spice Bush Swamp Park – Bird and Pollinator Gardens
Providing a program of garden therapy for youth and adults
Supporting historic properties
CIVIC PROJECTS OF THE WEST HARTFORD GARDEN CLUB OVER 82 YEARS:
Planting trees and landscaping
Encouraging community gardening
EARTH DAY EVENT
On April 20, 2024, an Earth Day event was held at West Hartford Town Hall Parking Lot in Blue Back Square at 50 South Main Street, Blue Back Square. The West Hartford Garden Club was one of the event sponsors. At our booth, which we are sharing with UCONN Master Gardeners, visitors were able to make native wildflower seed balls, using soil leftover from winter sowing and seeds leftover from our Seed Saving/Seed Swap last fall, and pot up little annual flower and vegetable plants.. We were approved for a 100% Sustainable CT grant, which is contingent on collecting 75 donations (in any amount) through this link: Project Earth Day.
CT Lights Out! Help Save Connecticut’s Migratory Birds
The Civic Projects Committee has launched a new campaign! We are asking members of the West Hartford Garden Club to support the CT Lights Out program by turning off some or all outdoor lights, especially from 11 pm to 6 am, during Peak Migration times. Peak fall migration is from 8/15/23 to 11/15/23 this year. Many garden groups are supporting this program.
Please sign the Pledge to Help Migrating Birds by turning down your lights and identifying “West Hartford Garden Club” as the organization with which you are affiliated when asked.
We all know that bird populations are threatened. We are working hard as a club to plant trees, shrubs, and flowers to support birds and the pollinators that help to feed them. Turning out lights is another way we can help. In Connecticut we have 450 native bird species, of which 60% are migratory. Of these, about 80% migrate at night due to lower temperatures, better airflow and air patterns, and to stay away from their predators – which usually migrate during the day.
Civic Projects Committee member Anastazia Owsiak recently attended a program about Lights Out CT to learn more. She summarized what she thought were the most important points made during the program in the attached document. Anastazia came away from the meeting thinking that this would be an easy and worthwhile way for our group to continue to support our feathered friends.
Thank you for considering participating in this program.
Earth Day Fair
The West Hartford Garden Club participated on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at the West Hartford Town Hall, 50 South Main Street, in an Earth Day Fair sponsored by The Foundation for West Public Schools. Earth Day Flyer.
The West Hartford Garden Club emphasized the idea that children and families can make a difference toward a net decrease in the impact of climate change by improving the environment to save the earth throughout every day in the little things we do from the time we wake up until when we go to sleep at night.
