Community Gardens

The Erin Street Community Garden and the Ferry Street Community Garden

NEAT boasts two community gardens, The Ferry Street Community Garden (FSCG) and the Erin Street Community Garden (ESCG), which serve different smaller neighborhoods within the greater North End.  The Erin Street site is currently in its first year and is thriving, while the Ferry Street site was moved to make way for new apartments on Ferry Street.  That garden will hopefully reopen in late summer, 2007.

  The Ferry Street Community Garden was started in 1999 as a way to create attractive community open space available for use by North End residents and truly became a focal point of the neighborhoods east of Main Street.

Over the past year, NEAT has founded the Erin Street Community Garden on the corner of Erin and High Streets in the North End.  Only in its first season, the Erin Street site has also become a center for community activity and connections.  It hosts 15 plots, worked by residents, neighbors and children.

The gardens are or have been funded with support from the Middletown Substance Abuse Prevention Council, the Middlesex County Community Foundation, the Middletown Garden Club and an Anonymous Foundation.  We have also received support from our many friends and through donations from local nurseries.

                

 
NEAT is a non-profit (501©(3) organization and receives financial and in kind support from Liberty Bank Foundation, the American Savings Foundation, Middlesex County Community Foundation, the City of Middletown (CDBG), the Haymarket People's Fund, the Community Health Center, Wesleyan University, Citizens Bank, and private donations.

North End Action Team, 33 Ferry St. , Middletown, CT 06457 (860)346-4845, fax: (860)704-8533, email: neat@neatmiddletown.org