Matching Fund To Repair Raised Garden Beds In Hartford

Press release from Eastern Connecticut State University: After a $2,150 match from the Sustainable CT Community Match Fund, The Simsbury Grange now has $4,300 for repairing raised garden beds and supporting the community garden at Broad Street in Hartford.

The Community Garden at Trinfo Café, 1300 Broad St., offers free garden plots to registered gardeners, a small park with picnic tables and a "Read and Seed" little free library that is open to the public. The "Read and Seed" lends books and gives out seeds supported by a collaboration between the Simsbury Grange and the Trinity College Neuroscience Program.

"We are thrilled with the support of Sustainable CT's matching fund. This garden is a real oasis and it desperately needed repairs," said Susan Masino, vice president of Simsbury Grange and neuroscience professor.

The project was supported by a crowdfunding campaign that received a dollar-for-dollar match from the Sustainable CT Community Match Fund, which is an initiative of the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Eastern Connecticut State University that is funded by the Smart Seed Fund, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and Connecticut Green Bank.

This press release was produced by Eastern Connecticut State University. The views expressed here are the author's own.