Education

Oct 4th, 2021 – Save the Date! Fall Annual Meeting

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Save the Date!
Fall Annual Meeting
October 4th, 2021
featuring James “Jim” Sirch
 We are so excited about this speaker. Jim Sirch is the Educational Coordinator for Yale Peabody Museum. He specializes and is passionate about Native Plants. Fall is the best time to plant native seeds. Be certain to come to this meeting. We hope to have the meeting at the Riverfront Community Center as in the past, including a little social time before the presentation. Keeping our fingers crossed.

Propagating Pollinator Plants from Seed

Including native plants in your garden is a great way to help pollinators. Expand your native plantings inexpensively by growing them yourself from seed. In this workshop we’ll discover different germination requirements for different kinds of seeds and how to plant a plastic milk jug filled with a seed selection to stratify over the winter. Proper after care will be discussed

Jim Sirch is the Education Coordinator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Jim was past president and is currently on the board of the Hamden Land Conservation Trust and the CT Native Plant Working Group. A certified CT Master Gardener, Jim gives talks throughout the state on gardening for pollinators and growing native plants from seed and is dedicated to helping improve backyard biodiversity. Jim was featured in the Members Making a Difference section of the Summer 2016 issue of the American Horticultural Society’s American Gardener magazine. Jim also authors a weekly nature blog called Beyond Your Back Door at: www.beyondyourbackdoor.net

5/19 @ 9a & 5/21/2021 @ 4p – Educational Garden Topic: Container Gardening

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Educational Garden at Town Community Gardens

5/12 & 5/14 Topic: Cool Weather Vegetables RAIN CANCELS EVENT

Topic conversations begin at 9:10a on Wednesday and 4:10p on Friday. Topic repeats Wednesday & Friday of the same week

Guest Conversationalist: Pam Eudowe, Glastonbury Partners in Planting, Inc.

Location: Plot #68 – 45 Canione Rd., Glastonbury, CT (Behind Herbert T. Clark House)

Every Wednesday and Friday bring your questions about gardening to a GPIP volunteer at Garden Plot #68. We will do our best to answer any questions. And while you are there take a few minutes to listen to a short casual conversation on a specific topic. All produce from this garden will be donated.

Interested in volunteering at this garden or at another garden with GPIP? We need help with watering, weeding, harvesting, and topic conversationalist at this garden. Contact Pam at information@gpip.org or via Facebook Messenger

GPIP is a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides beautification, education, and environmental work on the public lands of Glastonbury. All projects are funded by membership dues, donations and/or grants. TOWN DOES NOT PAY FOR OUR WORK – it is all FREE.

For more information: GPIP.org or information@gpip.org Donations can be mailed to: GPIP PO Box 378 So. Glastonbury, CT 06073 or electronically via PayPal.

5/12 & 5/14/2021 – Educational Garden Topic: Cool Weather Veggies

Pam Eudowe Calendar, Education, Spring Planting, Uncategorized, Volunteer Project

Educational Garden at Town Community Gardens

5/12 & 5/14 Topic: Cool Weather Vegetables RAIN CANCELS EVENT

Topic conversations begin at 9:10a on Wednesday and 4:10p on Friday. Topic repeats Wednesday & Friday of the same week

Guest Conversationalist: Pam Eudowe, Glastonbury Partners in Planting, Inc.

Location: Plot #68 – 45 Canione Rd., Glastonbury, CT (Behind Herbert T. Clark House)

Every Wednesday and Friday bring your questions about gardening to a GPIP volunteer at Garden Plot #68. We will do our best to answer any questions. And while you are there take a few minutes to listen to a short casual conversation on a specific topic. All produce from this garden will be donated.

Interested in volunteering at this garden or at another garden with GPIP? We need help with watering, weeding, harvesting, and topic conversationalist at this garden. Contact Pam at information@gpip.org or via Facebook Messenger

GPIP is a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides beautification, education, and environmental work on the public lands of Glastonbury. All projects are funded by membership dues, donations and/or grants. TOWN DOES NOT PAY FOR OUR WORK – it is all FREE.

For more information: GPIP.org or information@gpip.org Donations can be mailed to: GPIP PO Box 378 So. Glastonbury, CT 06073 or electronically via PayPal.

5/5/21 @ 9:00a & 5/7/21 @ 4:00p – Educational Garden Topic: Soil

Pam Eudowe Calendar, Education, Uncategorized

Every Friday bring your questions about gardening to a GPIP volunteer at Garden Plot #68. We will do our best to answer any questions. And while there take a few minutes to listen to a short conversation on a specific topic.

Location: Community Gardens behind Herbert T. Clark House 45 Canione Rd., Glastonbury, CT

Topic conversations begin at 4:10pm. Topics repeat Wednesday & Friday of the same week.

Topic today: Soil and planning

Guest Conversationalist: Greg Foran, Park Superintendent, Tree Warden, Town of Glastonbury

RAIN CANCELS EVENT

Interested in volunteering at this garden? We need help with watering, weeding, harvesting, and topic conversationalist. Contact Pam at information@gpip.org or via Facebook Messenger

GPIP is a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides beautification, education, and environmental work on the public lands of Glastonbury. All projects are funded by membership dues, donations and/or grants. TOWN DOES NOT PAY FOR OUR WORK – it is all FREE. For more information: GPIP.org or information@gpip.org Donations can be mailed to: GPIP PO Box 378 So. Glastonbury, CT 06073 or electronically via PayPal.

Beware the Beasts in Your Backyard

Partners Education

– Adult Ed. Course a Great Success

In May 2014, GPIP partnered with the Adult & Continuing Education department to offer a course: Beware the Beast in Your Backyard to help our community recognize and control invasive plants such as Oriental Bittersweet, Japanese Knotweed, Garlic Mustard, Burning Bush, Multiflora Rose and more. Information on native plants was also included. It was a 2-night course: a classroom meeting plus an outdoor class at Riverfront Park for a Plant Walk to identify these aggressive plants. 15 people attended.

The course was taught by Michael Corcoran who is affiliated with the University of Connecticut’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Coverts Project and the Connecticut Audubon Society.

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Class participants learn how bittersweet infests an area killing many trees on the course’s Plant Identification Walk