Margaret Witkofsky

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URI Internship Year:

2025

Graduation Year:

2026

Degree:

MAR

Margaret is a 2025 Community Greenspace intern from Ridgely, Maryland. She earned her undergraduate degree at Washington and Lee University and is now studying religion and ecology at Yale Divinity School. She is passionate about how communities are connected to place and since this is her first summer in New Haven, she is excited to learn from the New Haven community! During her free time, Margaret loves writing poetry, hiking East Rock, and kayaking the Mill River!

Group

Beaver Ponds Park

Cherry Ann Park

New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence

Hemingway Butterfly Garden: Mariposas del Mundo

Blake Street Pocket Park

Cedar Hill Neighborhood

Greenspace Log

Date Category Photos Group Summary

06/11/2025

Planting
Planting

Beaver Ponds Park

This week Beaver Ponds had visitors from the New Haven Garden Club, who just recently awarded Beaver Ponds Park with a grant! Nan gave a quick tour to the visitors then we got to work clearing the beds, mulching, and planting some coreopsis and echinacea. The children's garden also did a lot of work arranging their new wood slabs, adding soil to their garden, and planting some flowers.

06/07/2025

Planting
Planting

New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence

Bridges of Hope came by the garden for the annual I Love NH Day. They weeded, mulched, and planted in the front gardens to prepare for the upcoming Annual Day of Remembrance. They even got to see a few chipmunks running around and a snake hiding in the gardens!

06/07/2025

Maintenance
Maintenance

Blake Street Pocket Park

We had our first workday of the season! We cleaned up leaves and trash and began weeding in the park. We also are testing some different brick options for the path around the park.

06/06/2025

Maintenance
Maintenance

Hemingway Butterfly Garden: Mariposas del Mundo

Kat got out the water pump for the first time this season so we could fill buckets from the creek and water the perennials that she planted last fall. We also spend time removing invasive species from around the creek.

06/05/2025

Planning
Planning

Cherry Ann Park

Beatrice and I handed out flyers to the Cherry Ann neighborhood to gain interest for our first workday next week!

06/04/2025

Maintenance
Maintenance

Beaver Ponds Park

Friends of Beaver Ponds met for their first workday of the summer. We focused on weeding the front gardens and mulching the seating area. We also moved some wood planks for the children's garden that the children helped to move and decide where in their garden they wanted each plank. At the end of the workday, Chris Ozyck stopped by to test out the new tether ball!

06/03/2025

Planning
Planning

Hemingway Butterfly Garden: Mariposas del Mundo

I met with Kat to discuss her upcoming plans for the summer!

05/31/2025

Planning
Planning

Blake

We started planning for the summer!

05/31/2025

Planting
Planting

New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence

We planted 9 winterberry bushes around the park and weeded around trees.

05/31/2025

Planning
Planning

Blake Street Pocket Park

We began planning for the summer and weeding the front of the pocket park!

05/30/2025

Planning
Planning

Beaver Ponds Park

I met with Nan to discuss her plans for the summer!

05/30/2025

Planning
Planning

Cedar Hill Neighborhood

We began planning for the upcoming summer!

05/29/2025

Maintenance
Maintenance

New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence

20 students from Hopkins toured the garden and got to speak with two of the moms that founded the garden. They also weeded and prepared the garden to be mulched.

05/24/2025

Maintenance
Maintenance

New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence