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Don’t Look Now: City’s Becoming A Farm

by Thomas MacMillan | Aug 17, 2011 1:00 pm | Comments (11)

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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Greenspacer Turns Blighted Lot Into “Treasure”

by Allan Appel | Aug 11, 2011 11:38 am | Comments (6)

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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Hidden Urban Farms Strut Their Stuff

by Allan Appel | Aug 8, 2011 11:01 am | Comments (6)

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.

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Bird Garden Fights Blight

by Allan Appel | Sep 17, 2010 1:00 pm | Comments (10)

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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An Idea Takes Root In Fair Haven

by Thomas MacMillan | Sep 1, 2010 11:56 am | Comments (10)

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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Visiting Hands Help Chinese Gardens Bloom

by Allan Appel | Aug 25, 2010 4:19 pm | Comments (6)

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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“Guerrilla” Gardener Has A Plan

by Allan Appel | Aug 19, 2010 2:11 pm | Comments (6)

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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Tlaxcala Secrets Revealed

by Allan Appel | Aug 3, 2010 11:16 am | Comments (8)

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.

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