Tag Archives: Gather New Haven

Eco System

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Want to turn Earth Day into Earth days? Start with this bird’s-eye view of our local eco system, from whatever angles may interest you. (more…)

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Small Wonder

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Tucked between I-95 and the Long Island Sound, the Long Wharf Nature Preserve is easy to zip by but rewarding to visit. (more…)

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Pitching Camp

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Temperatures are rising, days are getting longer and local parents who haven’t yet registered their children for summer camp might be feeling the heat. (more…)

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Flower Girl

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Cold wind whooshed past towering hemlocks as owner Christina Natale and her mottled brown and white pup, Stella, welcomed me to Little Hen Farm in North Haven. Showing me around the 4.5-acre organic flower venture, Natale pointed to plots she’d protected with tarps to help them weather a late-March frost and to rows of sprouting […]

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Path Finding

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Located at the east end of the Lighthouse Point beach, Morris Creek is “one of the few remaining salt marshes in the area,” according to (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (October 12 – 18)

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Today’s debut of Italian Heritage Day, a brand new local holiday alternatively celebrated as Indigenous Peoples’ Day or Columbus Day, coincides with greater freedom to congregate courtesy of Phase 3.  (more…)

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Busy Bees

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In a community garden on Arthur Street in the Hill, Dillan, a junior at High School in the Community, kneels on the ground and feeds grass into a smoker to “cool” the fire inside. (more…)

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Let It Grow

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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 as a new enthusiasm for growing their own food bloomed this season. “There’s been a […]

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