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Sign Installed As Kimberly Park "Friends" Keep Cleaning

by | Nov 14, 2023 9:16 am | Comments (8)

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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.

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Liz & Lizzette Plant Perkins St. Paradise

by | Jul 29, 2022 5:53 pm | Comments (8)

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Lizzette Flores and Liz Johnston, in paradise.

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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The Tomato Plot Thickens

by and | Jul 14, 2022 3:35 pm | Comments (9)

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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.

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“Serenity” Takes Root On Shepard Street

by | Aug 6, 2012 11:29 am | Comments (1)

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

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

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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Greenspacer Turns Blighted Lot Into “Treasure”

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

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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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