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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
10/20/2024 Sunday @ 11a – Village Green
Clean out the planters – bring your gloves, diggers, personal refreshments, and pots/containers if you want to try to overwinter … 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
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 @ 10a – Winter Planters
Help create the Winter Planters. Bring your gloves, snips for cutting small branches, and a smile. This is a really … Read the rest
11/10/2024 Sunday @ 10a – Winter Planters in 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
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
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
4/6/2024 – Saturday 9AM – Welles Shipman Ward House (972 Main St., South Glastonbury)
Spring Clean-up of the Colonial Kitchen Garden. It doesn’t take long as the garden is not too big. Bring: gloves, … Read the rest
11/4/2023 Saturday @ 10:45a – Plant the Drainage Area off Main St. near Overlook Rd.
11/4/2023 Saturday @ 10:45a – Plant the Drainage Area off Main St. near Overlook Rd.
This project was postponed from … Read the rest
11/12/2023 Sunday @ 9a Winter Planters – Help create the beautiful Winter Planters at two different locations
11/12/2023 Sunday @ 9a Winter Planters – help create beautiful planters for the Winter.
Two locations are offered this year. … Read the rest
11/5/2023 Sunday @ 9a to 10a – Welles Shipman Ward House – Kitchen Garden cleanup
11/5/2023 Sunday @ 9a to 10a – Welles Shipman Ward House – Kitchen Garden cleanup before Winter. Bring your gloves, … Read the rest
11/4/2023 Saturday @ 8:30a – The Medians – Fall tidying up
11/4/2023 Saturday @ 8:30a – The Medians – Bring your gloves, hand clippers and personal refreshment. This work will include … Read the rest
