A special event designed to showcase the town’s many natural and cultural offerings.
Behind the border of flowering shrubs and trees that lines the roadside, lies an Arts and Crafts-style house and garden built in 1908. With a few liberties, the owners have recreated the original garden designed by Marian Coffin, restoring the small, formal parterre extending south from the house and executing the large double border below […]
Come and visit the Norfolk Community Garden and meet some of the gardeners. You will see the beds in full summer bloom: children from the Summer Gardening Club have their own two beds where they grow pumpkins, tomatoes, peas, lettuce, kale and more, and we keep beds for the Food Pantry. The Community Garden, sponsored […]
"Our garden's focus is to feed us, our chickens, our bees and our souls," say the owners. They practice organic methods, remove invasives and embrace a natural feel. At its heart is the kitchen garden they have been developing behind their house, coping with a slope, wet soil and Connecticut's many stones. There are cold […]