Author: Lory Woods
11/9/2024 Saturday @ 9a – Welles Shipman Ward House
Kitchen Garden cleanup before Winter. Bring your gloves, a rake if you have one and personal refreshments. Location: Welles Shipman … Read the rest
11/9/2024 Saturday @ 10:30a – The Medians – Fall Clean Up
Cutting back perennials and woody plants for winter. Please bring hedge clippers, loppers, hand pruners, tarp, leaf rake and battery-operated … Read the rest
11/10/2024 Sunday @ 9a – Winter Planters – Glastonbury Center & South Glastonbury Center. Rain date 11/17/2024
Help create the Winter Planters. Bring your gloves, snips for cutting small branches, and a smile. This is a really … Read the rest
Farmers Market – Once a month GPIP hosts an informational table at the Farmers Market (Hubbard Green).
GPIP members enjoy speaking with people about our organization and offering any gardening advice they can. This is only once … Read the rest
All Summer – Educational Garden @ the Town Community Gardens (to the east side of Herbert T. Clark House)
Two plots have been donated by Parks & Recreation to allow GPIP the opportunity to show how to grow vegetables … Read the rest
9/15/2024 – Sunday 1-4pm – Historical Society’s Harvest Time Event at the Welles Shipman Ward House
Volunteers needed to help at our GPIP table where visitors can make dried flower bouquets and help harvest the garden. … Read the rest
9/29 or 9/30 or 10/1 – Date TBD – Food Pantry Garden Close Down
9/29 or 9/30 or 10/1 – Date TBD – Food Pantry Garden Close Down- The community gardens will officially close … Read the rest
10/5/2024 Saturday @ 9a Tree Walk down Main St. (rain date 10/6)
Meet at: The Love Garden on Main St. between SignWiz & Evets Glassworks
The walk highlights many of the TREES … Read the rest
10/6/2024 Sunday @ 10a at Village Green – Youth in Mission Group from South Congregational Church
GPIP will lead and assist this excellent group that has chosen Village Green as one of their dedicated annual workdays. … Read the rest
10/07/2024 Monday, 6:00PM Fall Educational Presentation and Member Meeting at the Riverfront Community Center
Starting at 6:00pm There will be a social hour to enjoy conversation, a picnic type dinner and volunteer sign-up for … Read the rest
10/13/2024 Sunday@ 11-2pm at the Museum on the Green
The Historical Society will be celebrating Indigenous People’s Day along with a Food Drive at the Museum on the Green. … Read the rest
10/16/2024 Wednesday @ 9a (rain date 10/17) – Town Center Planters
Clean out the planters. Bring your gloves, diggers, personal refreshments, and pots/containers if you want to try to overwinter any … Read the rest
10/19/2024 Saturday @ 8:30a – The Medians – Perennial Relocation Day
Removal and division and replanting of many perennials in both island gardens. Irises (twice blooming) are the primary task to … Read the rest
CANCELED 10/20/2024 Sunday @ 11a – Village Green
CANCELED (Planters were cleaned out by Youth in Mission Group from South Congregational Church as part of the group’s annual … Read the rest
10/22/2024 Tuesday @ 10a (rain date 10/24) – WTM Library Patio & Front Garden
Fall clean up. Bring your gloves, hand digger, snips for trimming back plants and personal refreshment. Location: Welles Turner Memorial … Read the rest
10/24/2024 Thursday @ 10a (rain 10/25) – South Glastonbury Planters
Clean out the planters. Bring your gloves, diggers, personal refreshments, and pots/containers if you want to try to overwinter any … Read the rest
10/28/2024 Monday @ 10a (rain 10/31) – Salmon Brook Gardens [East & West gardens]
Fall clean up – bring your gloves, hand digger, snips for trimming back plants and personal refreshment. A trash bucket … Read the rest
11/02/2024 Saturday @ 9a (rain 11/3) – Buckingham Gardens
Fall clean up. Bring your gloves, hand digger, snips for trimming back plants, rake if you have one and personal … Read the rest
7/31/2024 – Wednesday 9AM – Salmon Brook Gardens (East and West) Main Street near the car wash and Best Cleaners
Come join us for some on-going summer maintenance of the Salmon Brook Gardens! We’ll be weeding, deadheading and pruning as needed. … Read the rest
6/12/2024 – Wednesday 10AM – Salmon Brook Gardens (East and West) (Main St. near car wash and Best Cleaners)
Spreading mulch on the two gardens. If we have enough people, we’ll divide into two groups and do both gardens … Read the rest
6/2/2024 – Sunday 1PM to 4PM – Welles Shipman Ward House (972 Main St., South Glastonbury)
“Step Back in Time” Event – GPIP will finish planting the garden and we will have activities for families/children which … Read the rest
5/24/2024 – Friday 2PM – (Date change due to weather forecast) South Glastonbury Planters (865 Main St., South Glastonbury – at picnic tables in parking lot)
Spring planting for added beauty in South Glastonbury. Annuals will be planted at various sites. … Read the rest
5/23/2024 – Thursday 9:30AM – Riverfront Park Planters (Meet at the Boat House on the river side)
Because of the ongoing road construction on Main Street this summer, some of the town center planters have been relocated … Read the rest
