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Nov 14, 2023 9:16 am
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Hill youngsters and Crystal Fernandez install signage at Kimberly Park.
Ten-year-old Cristian Estrada and his brothers Joshua, 9, and Jeremiah, 5, took turns plunging a shovel into the dirt on Kimberly Avenue to bring more beauty to their neighborhood park — this time in the form of installing a Friends of Kimberly Park sign.
Homeowners trying to turn their expanses of traditional turf grass into gardens for vegetables or flowers might take some cues from Elizabeth (Liz) Johnston and Lizzette Flores of Perkins Street: Their small yard is full of flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees and vines, and is described by some friends as “Paradise.”
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Jul 14, 2022 3:35 pm
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Paul DiMauro nourishes his communal plants.
As children with flushed faces and cherry cheeks raced around a playground in the summer heat, Paul DiMauro enjoyed a similar sense of freedom a few feet away — spending another morning of his retirement tending to seeds that will soon sprout into rosy tomatoes in a shared community space.
A decade ago Addie Kimbrough was teaching her son how to cut grass and prune bushes. Now that he’s 23 years old, she’s teaching a new generation of neighborhood youth about yard work.
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Natalie Kainz |
Jun 15, 2021 1:18 pm
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Community garden founder Addie Kimbrough.
Addie Kimbrough had a vision: A community garden in the vacant plot of land opposite her house where neighborhood kids and seniors could plant cabbage, collard greens, kale, and turnips.
With the help of volunteers, she made that vision sprout.
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Jul 25, 2014 12:00 pm
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Freshly planted trees garnished with hostas and lillies look beautiful to those who slow down to notice, but for the Green Hill Terrace residents who planted them, the effort is not just about beautification. It’s about survival.
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Jul 18, 2014 3:24 pm
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A decade ago, Curtis Libert found a riverside dump with dead dogs and old mattresses. He transformed it into a treasure trove of fruit trees, plastic kiddie bikes, a time-traveling easy chair, and royal red carpet.
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Jul 1, 2013 12:02 pm
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A new inkberry bush took root at the corner of Ellsworth and Edgewood avenues, the latest of 16 years of plants that have shown up on Edgewood Avenue thanks to a gang of local gardeners.
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Allan Appel
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Aug 6, 2012 11:29 am
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Smith and Jaimini Parekh with the new hydrangea tree.
When Tanya Smith started landscaping the old house she had bought and rehabbed in Newhallville, some passers-by told her she was making it too nice for the neighborhood. So she revived a community greenspace a block away that is helping make the neighborhood just as beautiful as her house.
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Thomas MacMillan
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Aug 17, 2011 1:00 pm
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3-year-old Fabian Ostorba clutches a fresh carrot.
Kline points out a patch of papalo, an herb from Mexico.
With an overflowing vegetable patch on James Street and work underway at three vacant city lots, Rebecca Kline’s Fair Haven garden empire is taking root as she plots to “see New Haven cross the line between urban and rural.”
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Allan Appel
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Aug 11, 2011 11:38 am
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The Chinese Elm behind Adeli DeArce came up only to her ear when it was planted nine years ago on the empty rock-strewn lot where two drug and prostitution houses once stood. Today that tree and a dozen more form the centerpiece of a shady green oasis helping to stabilize a tough stretch of Fair Haven.
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Allan Appel
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Aug 8, 2011 11:01 am
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You won’t find Matthew Browning’s honey-flavored white Lebanese summer squash in any store. His Church Street South neighbors find them — and get them for free — when they pass his front-yard gardens on Portsea Street on their way home from the produce-less convenience store on the corner.
The yellow finches and sparrows know it well. So does the daring egret that thieves the goldfish. Yet not many human denizens of New Haven know of Ivy Narrows, the 10-year old Echinacea and raspberry haven that Jeannette Thomas’s family and neighbors have built in the heart of Newhallville.
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Sep 1, 2010 11:56 am
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In a garden tucked between two industrial buildings on James Street, Wanda Albandoz filled up a crate of organic kale, string beans, basil, and tomatoes for her family — produce that she had a hand in growing. Meanwhile, Albandoz has lost 30 pounds in five months.
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Allan Appel |
Aug 25, 2010 4:19 pm
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They arrived in New Haven only in April. They will return to their home in Luzhou before the end of the year. And yet the garden where they are growing “ghua” or melon and enough other Chinese vegetables to feed several soccer teams is as big as a soccer field, and more beautiful.
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Allan Appel
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Aug 19, 2010 2:11 pm
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With hyacinth bean, clematis, and other climbing vines, Christopher Schaefer has created the most beautifully trellised “Do Not Obstruct Driveway” sign in all New Haven. He’s also using his gardening enthusiasm and talent quietly to help transform his City Point neighborhood.
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Allan Appel
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Aug 3, 2010 11:16 am
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Maria Meneses talks to her flowers and she touches them. As hundreds gathered in her West Rock yard for a celebration, she revealed the real secret to sunflowers taller than an NBA center and hibiscus petals the size of a dessert dish: seeds from Mexico.
