Conventional wisdom says Mother’s Day is the time to begin planting most summer crops, when the danger of frost is pretty much past. Still, many New Haven gardeners had already plunged their hands into the dirt well before last Sunday …
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This Week in New Haven (October 9 – 15)

A harvest dance, a visual arts bonanza, kids in costumes and other local October staples highlight a week that’s busy and dynamic even by New Haven standards. …
Elm Seedy

“Flowers don’t bloom or bushes berry for our admiration.”—Sara Stein, Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards (1993)
In other words, plants have their own agendas.…
Patch Work

Jacqueline Maisonpierre doesn’t seem to mind getting her hands dirty.
As the farm manager at New Haven Farms, Maisonpierre (pictured third) splits her time between seven tiny patches of…