CMGA Grant Awards

CMGA Funding Assistance provided for MG 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.

Grants awarded in 2024

  • Roseland Park Community Garden Expansion, Woodstock

  • Feed the World - Starting Locally!, Windsor

  • Barkhamsted Community Garden Shed and Bulletin Board

  • Educational Native Plant Signage Project - Cheshire Pollinator Pathway

  • COMO Childrens Learning Center, Stonington

  • Spencer Village Community Garden, Manchester

  • Peoples Harvest Garden, Pomfret

  • New Sturdy Storage Container for Brookfield Giving Garden

  • Pollinator Garden at Ellsworth Ave. School for Preschooler and Kindergartener Students, Danbury

  • Killingworth Growing Groceries Program

  • Rockland Preserve ~ Coan Pond Restoration Project, Madison

  • Tree Identification and Labeling at the Olive W. and George S. Lee Memorial Garden, New Canaan

  • Ballard Green Raised Bed & Community Garden (Phase II), Ridgefield

  • Hamden Homicide Memorial Botanical Garden of Healing at Eli Whitney Park

  • Danbury Public Library Native Plant Garden

  • McLean Butterfly Garden Revitalization Project, Simsbury

  • Quinnipiac River Linear Trail (QRLT) Labyrinth Garden Project, Wallingford

  • Herbal Use by Colonials in 17th Century New England, Wallingford

Grants awarded in 2023

  • Cohen Woodlands Butterfly-Pollinator Garden revitalization project, Colchester

  • Native Plants that Attract and Support Butterflies, Ballard Park's Native Plant Garden, Ridgefield

  • Peoples Harvest Garden, Pomfret

  • Windham Edible Landscape Permaculture Garden, Brooklyn

  • Potting Bench for Bethel Schools Student Garden, Bethel

  • Hamden Seed Library’s Rain Garden/Rain Barrel Project

  • Mark Twain House Conservatory Restoration, Hartford

  • New London - Great Neck School Garden/Pollinator Garden, New London

  • Botanical Markers at Mark Twain House, Hartford

  • Byram Park Pollinator Border Garden, Greenwich

  • Batchelder Montessori Magnet School Garden, Hartford

  • Peace Pole Pollinator Pathway, Canton

  • Wakeman Town Farm Pollinator Garden-Educational Signage Project, Westport

Grants awarded in 2022

  • Hebron Interfaith Human Services Pantry

  • Great Neck School Garden, Waterford

  • Auerfarm Medicinal Garden, Bloomfield

  • The Homestead Project/Stephen Main Homestead, North Stonington

  • Hamden Seed Library

  • Creation of an Active Teaching and Learning Composting System, Enfield

  • Healing Garden Project/Chesterfields Health Care Center, Chester

  • Bacon Academy Auditorium Entrance Sign Garden, Colchester

  • Pollinator Garden at Great Plain School, Danbury

  • Tomato Trellis Supports and Repairs to Handicapped Accessible Raised Beds, Colchester

  • Colchester Elementary School Butterfly Garden

  • Brookfield Pollinator Garden at Eriksen Farm

  • Dragonfly Pollinator Garden at Lyme/Old Lyme Foodshare Garden

  • Roundhill Wildlife Garden, Salem

  • Wilton Historical Society Colonial Garden Rejuvenation

GRANTS AWARDED IN 2021

  • Permaculture Demo Garden, Edible Landscape, Madison

  • Scranton Memorial Library Pollinator Garden

  • Torrington Community Garden

  • UConn Extension Bug Month

  • Demonstration Garden Project

  • Peoples Harvest Garden

  • Bethel School Student Garden Raised Bed Garden

  • Enhanced Accessible Public Education at Herb Garden

  • Common Good Gardens, Old Saybrook

  • Brainerd Butterfly Garden Expansion

  • Old Lyme Food Share Garden

  • Native Plant Garden on ADA trail, Patrell Preserve

  • Bent of the River Pollinator Garden Revitalization

  • Plant Book: Pollinator Garden Guide for visitors to the Hill-Stead Pollinator Garden

  • Collinsville Pollen Trail Signage

  • Spencer Village Community Garden

  • Colchester Storywalk Children’s Garden

  • Goodwin Museum Garden

  • Potting Bench for Bethel School Student Garden

  • The Giving Garden

GRANTS AWARDED IN 2020

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

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

  • 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

GRANTS AWARDED IN 2019

  • Northwest Park Edible Border, Windsor

  • LEAP Children’s Garden, New Haven

  • 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

GRANTS AWARDED IN 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

GRANTS AWARDED IN 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

GRANTS AWARDED IN 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

GRANTS AWARDED IN 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