Trish Helm from the Agricultural Station Associates

Pictured Trish Helm from the Agricultural Station Associates. Trish recently spoke to members of The Spring Glen Garden Club about the associates and their work.

The ESA Experiment Station Associates is a non-pr ofit that supports the Connecticut Agricultural Station (CAES), founded in 1990 to support CAES’s research and services by assisting career scientists. They also try to raise public awareness of the Ag. Station research and services. The Associates are looking for new members.

The Club would like to thank the Community for helping us celebrate our 100th anniversary.

The Garden Club ongoing projects includes the gardens and planters in Spring Glen, Poppy’s Garden on the Farmington Canal Trail and the Historical Herb Garden at The Jonathan Dickerman House, watering the plants at the Government Center and the Miller Library.

The Club donated 10 American Elm hybrid trees to the Hamden Center Park as a result of its successful Wreaths for Trees program.

Other projects of the Club were a Rhododendron Garden at the entry to Lockwood Cottage and the Red Oak tree (Quercus rubra) affectionately known as “Annie Oakley” planted in the Eli Whitney Park.

The Club has been a fixture in the Hamden community since 1925, a chartered member of The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut, Inc., and National Garden Clubs, Inc., since 1929. Please stop by our historical display in hall outside the Miller Library in front of the Thorton Wilder