This week we removed a dead maple tree at the park and planted a hackberry in its place! We also filled in the freshly-prepared bed around the entrance sign with shrubs and flowering perennials and topped everything off with a layer of mulch. John transported 50 gallons of water in a huge tank (thanks to the generosity of the New Haven Land Trust!) on the back of his pick-up truck, and we were thus able to water all of this week's plantings despite no fresh water source at the site.
06/14/2017
Today, the Fort Hale Greenspace group removed turf around the park entrance sign and prepped the bed with fresh topsoil and a mounded mulch border. At the end of the day, we planted two tall zebra grass to frame the sign. Next week we'll fill in the rest of the bed with shrubs and flowering perennials!
06/07/2017
Today was the first planning meeting of the Fort Hale Park Greenspace group. All of the volunteers who came to the meeting had worked together on other East Shore Greenspace projects in prior years. John Cox, the group leader, presented five potential work priorities for the summer. The group deliberated and decided to start by revamping the park entrance sign.