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Check out the FRESH Calendar for upcoming Events and Workdays for the 2009 Season!

Summer Workshops!

Propagation Methods!

Tuesday, June 16th, 6 - 7pm, Learn how to reproduce plants and expand your garden through dividing plants, saving seeds and taking cuttings.

Summer Solstice Potluck!

Sunday, June 21st, 4:30 - 7pm, w/ the Live Music of FRESH Gardeners: Liz Larson, Danny Spurr and Jake Kaeser: Bring a Dish or Drink to Share

Strategies for Small Gardens!

Sunday, July 2nd, 6 - 7pm, Learn strategies for maximizing the space in your garden: building trellises and other structures for vertical gardening, companion planting, timing strategies, succession plantings and others.

Methods for Extending Your Garden Season!

Sunday, July 14th, 6 - 7pm, Gardening isn’t just for summer anymore. Learn about cold hardy crops and methods to extend your season to make spring and fall just as fruitful! Participate in building a simple season-extending structure over a garden bed.

Saturday, July 25th:

Learn Tips and Tricks from the FRESH Community Gardeners!

4:30 - 6pm

Community Potluck

6 - 7pm

Bring a dish to share and friends to share it with.

FRESH Open Mic!!

6 - 7pm

The theme is ‘Food & Culture.’ Come to perform or watch as folks share their voices, music and bodies to explore these ideas.

Save the Date for the 5th Anniversary Celebration!

FRESH is turning 5 in September! Join us on Sat, Sept 12th from 2 to 6pm at the FRESH Community Garden Center. Food from the FRESH Farm, prepared by FRESH Youth. Live Music. Presentations. Lots of fun. Everyone is Welcome!

For more information, call FRESH at 860-444-8050 ext. 14
Spring Gardening

All events are free and open to the public. Rain or shine. All events are held at the FRESH Community Garden Center, corner of Williams and Mercer Streets, New London.
If you or your group would like support or advice on getting your own or a community garden started, give FRESH a call or an email.

 

 

 

 

Welcome

At F.R.E.S.H. (Food: Resources, Education, Security, Health in New London) we work to transform the food system from what it is to what it ought to be: healthful, universally accessible, sustainable, just and beautiful!

FRESH began in 2004 with a belief that public health, social justice and ecological sustainability are inextricably linked.

The city of New London is our home base and the focus of our efforts to build a vibrant local food system and a model of a food secure community. In the midst of this, we recognize the need to unite urban and rural people, resources & needs in order to make the progressive change we envision.

F.R.E.S.H. New London is a holistic response to hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity. We promote and build local resources to meet local needs. We pursue our mission through food and agriculture projects, in the fields of: experiential education for ecological literacy and health; training for community and individual self-reliance; promotion of improved community management of natural resources; economic opportunities through local agriculture (including youth entrepreneurship); innovative distribution and marketing of locally grown food; and cultivation of the next generation of youth leaders.

FRESH programs range from intensive summer and year round employment and training of New London teens, garden based education programs for children, community gardens, the FRESH Farm, marketing and donation of fresh produce and more. Please explore our site and find out what’s good at FRESH!