[Community_garden] June 16th Conference & Wine tasting

[cordalie.benoit at aya.yale.edu]

There is a $30.00 wine tasting is at my house, 19 court Street, NH, CT  from 5 to 7:00 pm  (A walk from Harkness Hall)

The conference starts at 9:00.   Pat Hynes is our main speacker at 3:00 pm an expert on the health effects of community gardening.   

You are welcome to come for part of the day.  The $15.00 conference fee includes lunch.  
The Connecticut
Community Gardening Association presents:

Growing Healthy Food and Healthy Communities in Connecticut

A Community Gardening Conference in the Elm City

June 16, 2007

Yale University

Harkness Hall

470 College Street, New Haven

www.ctcommunitygardening.org

Come join us at this annual sharing of garden ideas. Gain new insights on how community gardening contributes to the health

of people and neighborhoods

In co-operation with:

?? Bridgeport Community Land Trust

?? City of New Haven Department of Parks,

Recreation and Trees

?? Common Ground High School/New Haven

Ecology Project (celebrating its 10th year!)

?? Connecticut Master Gardener Association

?? CT NOFA (Celebrating its 25th year!)

?? Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo

?? Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries

?? Knox Parks Foundation

?? The New Haven Land Trust, Inc. (Celebrating its

25th year!)

?? Torrington Community Gardens

?? UCONN College of Agriculture and Natural

Resources

?? UCONN Department of Cooperative Extension

?? USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

?? Urban Resources Initiative-New Haven

?? Wheelers Landscaping (Compsoil)

Funded in part by:

?? Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

?? Common Ground High School, New Haven

?? Members of the Connecticut Community

Gardening Association (CCGA)

?? The Community Gardening Program of the New

Haven Land Trust, Inc.

?? New Alliance Bank

?? Yale University

?? Starbucks Coffee Company

For more information, contact:

?? Cordalie Benoit, President, CCGA, 203-770-0146;

cordalie.benoit at aya.yale.edu

?? Diane Wright Hirsch, UConn Cooperative

Extension; 203-407-3163;

diane.hirsch at uconn.edu

Directions/Parking

To Harkness Hall: Mapquest 470 College Street, New Haven, CT

>From Route I91: Take Trumbull St. exit straight to Prospect/College Street, turn left; HH is two blocks on the right.

>From Route 15: Take Route 34 south exit; turn left on Church St; left on Grove St; left on Prospect/College St. HH is one

block on the right. On street parking is free on Saturday.

Parking at Yale:

Lot 51: Left on Wall St., right in one block onto Temple. Lot is on right. (gate is open on weekends)

Lot 78: Ashmun , Follow Grove, take right on Ashmun, parking lot on corner

Lot 84: York Street, at University Theater , follow up Chapel, right onto York (222 York is the theater)

Parking Garages:

1) Grove Street between Orange and Church

2) Church Street between Wall and Grove

Growing Healthy Food and Healthy Communities in Connecticut

A Community Gardening Conference in the Elm City: June 16, 2007

Schedule of Events

8:30am - 4:00pm

8:30- 9:30 Registration/Networking/Exhibits

9:30-10:00 Welcome to New Haven and the CCGA conference

10:00 Move to workshops

10:15- 11:15 First Sessions:

?? Organic matters: Make the transition to organic gardening

?? Got your seeds, your trowel and your .website? Using websites as tools for successful community gardens

?? Manure and compost don't just happen: Learn how to build good soil

?? Entrepreneurial gardening: A project of the Knox Parks Foundation

?? Growing youth into gardeners: Stories of Common Ground High School and New London F.R.E.S.H.

?? TOUR: To market, to market, to see a fat---cucumber-visit a New Haven City Seed farmers' market

11:30- 12:30 Second Session:

?? Gardens to farms: Make your garden work for you

?? Gardening 101-new to gardening? Start here.

?? The sustainable garden

?? A tree grows in New Haven-and so do vegetables and flowers: Discover New Haven's gardens and green spaces

?? Now, what do I DO with it? Simple cooking from the garden (bring a favorite garden vegetable and Claire Criscoulo will

teach you how to use it!)

?? TOUR: Teaching ecology and community: visit the Ecology Project and New Haven's Common Ground High School

gardens and woods

12:30- 1:45 Lunches

1:45- 2:45 Third Sessions:

?? Getting the lead out: searching for lead in community gardens and green spaces

?? The garden diet-eat well and exercise while planting, weeding, and harvesting some of the best foods on earth

?? A history of the New Haven butterfly garden

?? Insects and gardens-should you let them bug you?

?? Local politics and the fall and rise of community gardens: it's a matter of policies, priorities and power

?? TOUR: Enjoy the view: see the New Haven community gardens and green spaces

?? TOUR: See brain food in the making: visit Yale sustainable gardens

3:00 Keynote Address:

Speaker: H. Patricia Hynes, PhD, Professor, Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health and author of

A Patch of Eden: America's Inner-City Gardeners

4:00 Wrap-up

Registration Form:

(Registration includes lunch, continental breakfast, and all conference materials.)

Name: ___________________________________________________________________Phone Number: ______________________________

Address: ________________________________________________________________Email address:________________________________

Registration fee options: Total $

CCGA Members - # ____ @ $15.00 $_____ Make checks payable to CCGA

Non-members - # ____ @ $20.00 $_____ Send form and payment to:

CCGA membership dues - # ____ @ $10.00 $_____ CCGA

CCGA Supporter/Optional donation - (tax deductible) $_____ PO Box 266

Harwinton, CT 06791

Vendor Fee #____ @ $25.00 $_____ (if you wish to exhibit products for sale)

Total enclosed: $_____









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