From left: Tony McDowell, Earthplace executive director; Melissa Kane, Westport Board of Selectmen; Matthew Mandell, Earthplace board member and president of the Westport Chamber of Commerce; Jim Marpe, Westport first selectman; Jay Petrow of Petrow Garden; Bill Kraekel, Aspetuck Land Trust president; David Brant, Aspetuck Land Trust executive director; Mary Ellen Lemay, Aspetuck Land Trust landowner engagement director; Christina McVaney, Westport Woman”™s Club president; Nancy Saipe and Jeannette Tewey, Westport Woman”™s Club Ruegg Grants committee; and Susan Hricik, Westport Woman”™s Club community services chair.
On Sept. 13, Aspetuck Land Trust celebrated the installation of a native plant demonstration garden at Earthplace.
The garden will be used to teach homeowners how to incorporate native plants into their home landscapes and is part of Aspetuck Land Trust”™s Green Corridor Initiative. The garden was made possible by a $10,000 Ruegg grant from the Westport Woman”™s Club.
For more information on the Green Corridor and upcoming native plant events at Earthplace, visit aspetucklandtrust.org.
