Over 25% of products sent to landfills today are organic wastes, so home composting is one of the most important ways we as individuals can have a positive impact on the environment. The simple process of composting reduces runoff and compaction of topsoil, enhances biodiversity, and increases vital microbial activity. Adding compost to your soil will increase plant root growth, making plants more resistant to stresses related to multiple factors including weather extremes and climate change. Compost also largely eliminates the need for toxic synthetic pesticides and herbicides.
Join the West Hartford Garden Club to learn how to get started composting, best practices, and much more!
The Gardening Workshop Series is presented in collaboration with the West Hartford Garden Club.
Disclaimer(s)
Free parking in the Isham Garage is available to you at the Noah Webster Library during your library visit. Click here to learn more.
Please plan to give us at least one hour of your time during the morning. Please bring your favorite tools for weeding and pruning. A co-chair will arrive at the garden by 8:30 a.m.
PARKING: Parking will be in the paved lot next to the Amos Bull House on South Prospect Street. We encourage you to carpool as space is limited.
We plan to work if the rain is light. If it is pouring, you will get a cancellation call by 8:00 a.m.
• If you are unable to work on your signup date, please let me know so that we can reschedule you and help you find a replacement for your shift.
“A Glass Act: Unique Floral Designs in Glass”
Speaker: Trish Manfredi
Former Federated Garden Clubs of CT president and well-known
floral designer, Trish Manfredi, will be our guest speaker. Floral
arrangement will be raffled off at the end of the meeting.
OPEN MEETING, Guest donation $10.00
Flower arrangement: Barbara Cloonan
Tea sandwiches, cookies and beverages will be served
Please remember to bring your gardening tools. This is also the Noah Webster plant digging event to support the Plant Sale.
If you are unable to work on your signup date, please try to find a replacement and let us know so that we can reschedule you.
Social time and Shopping with our amazing Vendors: 9:00 a.m.
Meeting and Guest Speaker: 10:00 a.m.
Luncheon: 12:15 p.m.
Register here
Polar vortex. Siberian cold. Snow. Ice. Freezing Rain. UGH!
The Federated Garden Clubs has just the thing to turn your thoughts to budding trees, flowering gardens and emerging vegetables — the 96th Annual Meeting and Luncheon on Wednesday, April 16.
Our speaker will be Larry Weaner, a landscape designer, who is sure to get our creative thoughts flowing. The Federation will also install our new slate of officers, headed by Nan Merolla as President.
The luncheon will be at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville and will again feature a terrific lineup of vendors. Come at 9 a.m. to give yourself some time to register, greet friends, check out the raffle, and shop before we begin the program at 10 a.m.
Please plan to give us at least one hour of your time during the morning. Please bring your favorite tools for weeding and pruning. A co-chair will arrive at the garden by 8:30 a.m.
PARKING: Parking will be in the paved lot next to the Amos Bull House on South Prospect Street. We encourage you to carpool as space is limited.
We plan to work if the rain is light. If it is pouring, you will get a cancellation call by 8:00 a.m.
• If you are unable to work on your signup date, please let me know so that we can reschedule you and help you find a replacement for your shift.
Storytime and Activity for ages 3-5 in the Children’s Story Room. Beth Ann and Carol Waxman the Children’s Librarian will be assisted by Susan Grew, Suzanne Miller, Gina Trusiewicz, Annemarie Riemer, and Tanya Guadalupe. We will read 2 stories about seeds and then plant beans and pumpkins in peat pots – they have pots and soil from other activities, and the seeds will come from the Seed Library.