Grow it! Winter Gardening Series presented by Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven and Common Ground

Essential Flowers & Herbs for Vegetable Gardening — Saturday, March 11th, 2017

Flowers and Herbs attract pollinators and beneficial insects to help keep your garden productive and healthy. Learn about the best flowers and herbs for your garden. This class will also identify some edible weeds and tell you what you need to know in order to protect your garden from invasive ones.

Preserving your Garden Harvest — Saturday, March 25th, 2017

Learn how you can eat from your garden all winter long. Simple methods can save your harvest for winter use. The class will cover techniques that you’ll need to know for freezing, canning, dehydrating, pickling and more.

Single Classes $20 or Help a Neighbor $30. Full series of 6 classes at discounted rate of $100.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please call 203-562-0598 for scholarship details.

If you’d like to pay for the workshop(s) in person, you may bring a check or money order made out to ‘NHS of New Haven’ to Norma Pantoja at Neighborhood Housing Services (333 Sherman Avenue, New Haven) before the date of the class.