CMGA Outreach Projects

CMGA provides financial support to UConn’s Master Gardener Program; to the UConn Extension MG county coordinators who administer the Master Gardener Program classes, to Certified Master Gardeners and MG Interns who are involved in projects that promote horticultural knowledge.

CMGA has established a Grants Committee to administer this mission. In addition to the projects listed below, scholarship funding is also given each year to the UConn MG Program for partial scholarships for each location.

CMGA Provided Funding Assistance
for the Following MG Projects:

2020

  • Allen Place, Knotweed Eradication to Collinsville Pollen Trail - Collinsville

  • Annie Fisher STEM School, Hands-on learning gardens - Hartford

  • Breakthrough North School, New school garden - Hartford

  • Colchester Native Plant Garden, Educational welcome signs - Colchester

  • Common Good Gardens, Growing vegetables for Shoreline Soup Kitchens -Old Saybrook

  • Denison Pequot Nature Center, Giving Garden at Coogan Farm - Mystic

  • Fernridge Park, Installing Pollinator Garden - West Hartford

  • Herb Garden at Elizabeth Park, Plants in Words Signage - Hartford

  • Hop Brook Park Flower Bridge, Stone Seating Wall Garden - Simsbury

  • Natchaug Hospital Gardens, Master Gardener gardening tools - Mansfield

  • Newington Senior and Disabled Center, The Giving Garden - Newington

  • LEAP For Kids, Kids Community Garden - New Haven

  • Palmer Arboretum, Native Plants for Reclaimed area - Woodstock

  • Peoples Harvest Garden, Battling local food insecurity - Pomfret

  • Permaculture Demonstration Garden, Edible Landscape -Windham County UConn Extension Center

  • Real Food Share, Fresh produce for food insecure, Newtown

  • Spencer Village Public Housing, Community Gardens - Manchester

  • Stonington Community Center, Children’s Garden - Stonington

  • Water Street Pollinator Garden, Creating  a Pollinator Garden - Essex

  • UConn Extension, 2020 Bug Week - Virtual Event

 

2019

  • LEAP Children’s Garden, New Haven

  • Northwest Park Edible Border, Windsor

  • Children’s Garden at the Stonington Community Center

  • Rain Garden at the United Methodist Church
    New Milford

  • Seed Library, Bell Library, Ledyard

  • Children’s Story-Walk Garden, Colchester

  • Ruby and Elizabeth Cohen Woodlands, Colchester

  • Permaculture Garden, Windham Extension, Brooklyn

  • UConn Extension Bug Week Event

  • The Giving Garden, Newington Senior Center

  • Project Pollination, WAIM Community Garden, Willimantic

  • Monarch Way Station/Pollinator Garden
    Mercy by the Sea, Madison

  • Peoples Harvest Garden, Pomfret

  • Bee Happy Garden-Pollinator & Medicinal Herbal Garden, Children’s Hospital, Hartford

  • Northwest Park Organic Demonstration Garden Windsor

  • Installation of Rain Garden, New Milford

  • Wilton Historical Society

  • Burgdorf Health Center Community, Hartford

  • Pollinator Pathway, Wilton

  • CMGA Model Garden, Middlesex Extension Center

  • 4-H Auer Farm, Bloomfield

  • Avery Point Children’s Cognitive Garden, Groton

  • UConn Demonstration Gardens, Fairfield Extension

  • Pollinator Garden, Hill-stead Museum, Farmington

 

2018

  • Harwinton Library Seed Bank

  • Mercy by the Sea, Madison

  • Protect Our Pollinators

  • Saint Luke Community Garden, Gales Ferry

  • Wilton Pollinator Pathway Renovation

  • Wilton Historical Society and Museum

  • Children's Garden at the Stonington Community Center

  • Xeriscape Garden, Colchester 

  • SCADD (SCADD "Southeastern Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence, Inc."), Lebanon

  • Peoples Harvest Garden

  • The Giving Garden, Newington Senior & Disabled Center

  • Pollinator Garden project at Hill-Stead Museum

  • Nehemiah Royce House, Wallingford

  • Northwest Park, Windsor

  • Pollinator Garden at Gifts of Love Farm, Simsbury

  • Foodshare Garden at Auerfarm, Bloomfield

  • Oak Hill Garden, Hartford

  • Nathan Hale Elementary School, Meriden

  • Avery Coop House, Groton

  • Burgdorf Health Center Community Garden Hartford

  • Spencer Village Community Garden, Manchester

  • CT Science Center, Hartford

  • LEAP Children’s Garden, New Haven

  • Save My Sanity, Wallingford

 

2017

  • Grasslands Project, University of St. Joseph, West Hartford

  • Protect Our Pollinators, Newton

  • Community Garden, New London Park

  • Renovation of Children’s Cancer Memorial Garden, East Lyme Public Library

  • Garden Improvement Team, Natchaug Hospital, Mansfield Center

  • Mercy by the Sea, Madison    

  • Seed Library at the Darien Library

  • CT Pollinator Pathway, Wilton

  • Peoples Harvest Garden, Pomfret

  • Pollinator Garden, Groton Public Library

  • Charles Barnum Elementary School, Groton

  • Burgdorf Health Center Demonstration Garden

  • Gay City State Park Habitat Restoration Project, Hebron

  • Great Path Academy, Garden Club,
    LED grow lights experiment

  • Hill-Stead Pollinator Garden, Farmington

  • Children’s Day Story-Walk, Colchester (butterfly handout)

  • Spencer Village Community Garden Manchester

  • Simsbury Historical Society

  • Japanese Knotweed Removal/Installation of Native Plant Material, Simsbury Historical Society

  • Meadow at Meigs Point Nature Center Madison

  • Renovation/Enhancement of Red Twig Dogwood Garden, Colchester

 

2016

  • Leap Gardens, New Haven

  • Mercy by the Sea Center, Madison

  • Woodland Treasures, Bartlett Arboretum, Norwalk

  • People’s Harvest, Pomfret

  • New Haven Extension Office

  • Lake Garda Elementary, Burlington

  • Bethany Community gardens, Bethany

  • Fairfield County Extension Office

  • Cohen Woodland Butterfly-Pollinator Garden, Colchester

  • Betances STEM Magnet School, Hartford

  • Bethel Extension Fair, Bethel

  • Simsbury Historical Society, Simsbury

  • University of St. Joseph Grassland Project, West Hartford

 
 

2015

  • Auer Farm, Hartford

  • Bartlett Native Plant Garden

  • Bethany Community Garden

  • Bethel Gardening Fair

  • Brookfield Giving Garden

  • Cohen Woodlands Butterfly-Pollinator Garden, Colchester

  • Great Path Academy Garden Club, Manchester

  • Harwinton Land Trust (Bull Pond)

  • Harwinton Public Library

  • KidsPlay Children's Museum Habitat

  • LEAP Children's Garden, New Haven

  • Lee May Memorial Garden

  • Lily B Haines Elementary School Garden

  • Manson Youth Institution

  • Medicinal Herb Garden iPark

  • Mercy Center, New Haven

  • Merwin Meadows Park (Invasives)

  • Peoples Harvest, Pomfret

  • Urban Garden (Hartford North End) (Irrigation System)

  • Wilton Historical Society Herb Garden

  • Woodland's Edge Garden, Bartlett Arboretum