Hamden Community Garden

06/18/2026

It’s a beautiful day in the garden with the cool, cloudy weather. Come on down! Peas, scapes, lettuces, chard and more!

06/08/2026

Check out out this little fellow visiting the garden yesterday: silver spotted skipper on nepeta.

06/07/2026

Lettuces and garlic are coming along nicely in our gardens and there’s even an early pea flower showing its head. Happy gardening this week!

05/25/2026

Nice greens, alliums and fava beans growing in the garden. Someone took one of Jim Sirch’s native perennial plant propagation workshops offered through the Free Hamden Seed Library and has their seedling-filled milk jug in their plot. Very nice to see! A reminder that you can still receive free seeds at the Hamden Library until June 6.

05/20/2026

Have a read in the New Haven Independent about Gather New Haven: https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/05/18/gather-gives-city-most-of-its-gardens-farms/ . We’re fortunate to have our community garden and it’s a good reminder of the importance of keeping up our plots. Check out the first comment.

A local environmental nonprofit has handed over to city government 19 community gardens and three urban farms -- raising questions about the future of those publicly owned greenspaces and the group that used to help maintain them.

05/13/2026

Good news! The water is available now in the garden.

05/02/2026

Welcome back to the garden and a new gardening year. There’s lots going on already!

11/21/2025

A few greens still in the Garden this evening. Perhaps not after tonight. Thank you Hamden Community Garden for all the great food, flowers and learning. See you next garden year!

10/14/2025

Plenty of harvesting still going on in the garden.

10/06/2025

Fall garden chores with Margaret Roach. Take a look…

EVEN I—SHE OF THE MONTHLY CHORES LISTS—get overwhelmed at the thought of it: fall cleanup. As the month begins, I wait in a sort of suspended animation—for frost, and for leaf drop, the two accelerators