Volunteer Opportunities - Fairfield County
If a contact person is not listed below the project description, please contact Sandi Wilson at Sandra.Wilson@uconn.edu or 203-207-3261 for more information.
New Caanan Nature Center
Looking for volunteers to work in the herb, bird and butterfly garden, naturalist’s garden, and help rehabilitate an orchard.
Contact: Nancy Gamerman
(203) 966-9577
Community Garden, Norwalk
The Norwalk Health Department in conjunction with the Department of Recreation and Parks are looking for volunteers to help start up a community garden on a 9 acre track of land in urban Norwalk. Master Gardeners are needed for planning and teaching and giving gardening talks.
Contact: Gabriella Grode
Norwalk Health Department
203-854-7974
Bent of the River Audubon Center
Master Gardener volunteers needed to help revitalize Butterfly and Bird Gardens, Wildflower Garden and Woodland Garden.
The center would also like to develop a diagram of the Butterfly and Bird Garden as well as a handout brochure for visitors. Speakers wanted for gardening lectures and presentations such as Organic Gardening techniques, Sustainable Lawn Practices, Invasive Plant Identification and Control, and other gardening topics.
Contact: Judith Stevens
203-264-7804
For lectures, contact: Christine Cohen
203-264-6332.
Healing Hearts, Danbury
Garden restoration at hospice-affiliated grief counseling center for children and adults. The gardens include a water garden, maze, meadow area, and formal garden area. A plan for an interactive plant walk is being developed.
Ashlar of Newtown
Horticulture therapy with residents of this non-profit nursing home and assisted living facility. Other projects include design and installation of a wheelchair-accessible serenity garden and a research project on interior plantscapes for a new wing in the facility.
Harrybrooke Park, New Milford
Master Gardeners are planning several clean- up days to help restore the town park.
Twitchell – Rowland Homestead, Oxford
In need of volunteers to help design and plant period wildflower and herb gardens on the site of a 1755 colonial farmhouse.
Cascades Assisted Living, Bethel
Looking for speakers on general gardening topics for residents of the facility. Topics and times are flexible.
The Baldwin Senior Center, Stratford
Looking for speakers on gardening issues for their autumn meetings.
Fairfield County Extension Center, Bethel Volunteers needed to design and plant small gardens around the new signs on the property.
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