GPIP we will have an information table from 10am-1pm weather permitting. Come help promote GPIP for a bit then find … Read the rest
Category: Fall Work / Opportunities
Projects taking place in the fall
10/09/2025 Thursday @9:30am – Food Pantry Garden Close Down
The gardens officially close on October 13th (last day). Depending on the weather, the process to breakdown plots #53 & … Read the rest
10/11/2025 Saturday 11am-2pm Pay it Forward Food Drive at The Historical Society’s Museum on Hubbard Green
The Indigenous Peoples of the area taught the English settlers ways to increase their food supply by sharing new plants … Read the rest
10/15/2025 Wednesday @ 9am (rain 10/16) – 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
10/16/2025 Thursday @ 10am (rain 10/17) – 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
10/23/2025 Thursday @ 10am (rain 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
11/01/2025 Saturday @ 9am (rain 11/2) – 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
11/01/2025 Saturday @ 10am (rain 11/8) – The Medians
Fall Cleanup. Note the later start time. WSW cleanup is at 8:30am that day; maybe help out at both? Tasks: … Read the rest
11/01/2025 Saturday @ 8:30am (rain 11/8) – Welles Shipman Ward House
Kitchen Garden cleanup before Winter. Bring your gloves and favorite gardening tools to help remove spent plants (loppers, garden spade … Read the rest
11/05/2025 Wednesday @ 9am (rain 11/6) – 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
Winter Planters – 11/17/25 Monday @9am (Town Center) & 11/18/25 Tuesday @9am (South Glastonbury)
Help create the Winter Planters. Bring your gloves, snips for cutting small branches, and a smile. This is a really … Read the rest
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
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
10/6/2024 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
10/13/2024 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