West Haven Community Garden

Our goal is to create an organic community garden with 100 plots at Molloy School for the residents of West Haven, CT. Community leaders, including City Councilman Michael Last, City Councilwoman Nancy Rossi, and Dorinda Borer, BOE member, will be working with Marilyn Wilkes, who is spear-heading the project, to bring the garden to fruition. Once established, the West Haven Community Garden will provide residents with the opportunity to meet people and create community, get exercise through gardening, learn new skills, enrich the environment, and grow healthy, accessible food for themselves, food banks, and local charitable organizations.

Get approval from Planning & Zoning for Special Permit
Garden Site Design (done)
Soil Tested (done)

• Call before You Dig
• Field Cleared
• Create plots
• Mulch walkways
• Irrigation
• Parking (done)
• Fencing
• Equipment storage shed
• Compost

• ioby.org
• Grant applications
• Sponsors
• Donations
• Events

• Create Permit process (done)
• Draft Garden rules (done)
• Draft Code of Conduct (done)
• Draft Bylaws (done)

• Create web site using Wordpress
• Student flyers
• Letters to Molloy neighbors 
• Postings in Libraries
• Articles in local daily and weekly papers
• Posting in Senior Centers
• Post on WH Park Rec Website and Office
• FaceBook postings

West Haven does not have a community garden. We want to create one for its residents that is organic, non-profit, non-partisan, and non-discriminatory. Seeking to be multi-cultural and multi-generational, it will provide residents with the opportunity to meet people and create community, get exercise through gardening, learn new skills, enrich the environment, and grow healthy, accessible food for themselves, food banks, and local charitable organizations. Educational programs will be offered to K-12 students, as well as the general public as possible. A gathering space will be provided for gardeners to rest and communicate with each other, and for teaching.