The CB&O team from NHS visited properties on West Division St to maintain community gardens and greenspaces. They laid mulch, weeded, pruned trees, and cut grass at NHS properties and surrounding homes. They also planted hastas, a hydrangea, and a Japanese maple tree that were donated. The beautification work is part of NHS' strategy to stabilize the neighborhood by encouraging surrounding homeowners to also maintain their properties. The team also helped establish donated plants at the Urban Oasis learning corridor.
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The CB&O team from NHS visited properties on West Division St to maintain community gardens and greenspaces. They laid mulch, weeded, pruned trees, and cut grass at NHS properties and surrounding homes. They also planted hastas, a hydrangea, and a Japanese maple tree that were donated. The beautification work is part of NHS' strategy to stabilize the neighborhood by encouraging surrounding homeowners to also maintain their properties. The team also helped establish donated plants at the Urban Oasis learning corridor.
The CB&O team from NHS visited properties on West Division St to maintain community gardens and greenspaces. They laid mulch, weeded, pruned trees, and cut grass at NHS properties and surrounding homes. They also planted hastas, a hydrangea, and a Japanese maple tree that were donated. The beautification work is part of NHS' strategy to stabilize the neighborhood by encouraging surrounding homeowners to also maintain their properties. The team also helped establish donated plants at the Urban Oasis learning corridor.
Report compiled by Will Taft, NHS CB&O Summer Fellow
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES
Community Building and Organizing Weekly Project Report
Community Gardens and Greenspaces
The entire Community Building and Organizing department visited West Division St. on Wednesday (August 1st) to maintain gardens at NHS properties and beautify surrounding homes. NHS Property Manager Angel Pantoja and Lab Director Kathy Fay joined the CB&O team. Committed New Haven volunteer Sally Voegeli lent a hand too. The team laid mulch in three non-NHS yards and one NHS yard and donated a few bags of mulch to another homeowner on the street. The team also weeded in preparation for plantings on Thursday (August 9th), pruned overgrown trees, and cut long grass. Angel and Kathy brought all of the trimmings and compostable materials to the Landscape Demonstration Garden at NHS to use as fertilizer.
On Thursday (August 9th), Stephen, Adam, and Will
returned to West Division St. to finish tending to the gardens with Sally. They planted hastas, a hydrangea, and a Japanese maple tree. Sally donated all of the plants.
The CB&O team’s work on West Division is one part of
NHS’ Newhallville revitalization strategy. Three properties NHS rehabilitated and sold sit on West Division, creating a cluster of homes and homeowners to stabilize the neighborhood. Continuous property beautification inspires surrounding neighbors to beautify their yards and discourages littering and further property damage.
On Thursday (August 2nd), Will, Jett, and Doreen
helped establish plants donated by the Urban Resource Initiative in the Urban Oasis at the Learning Corridor. Images In order of appearance from top… 1. Doreen, Stephen, Haley, and Adam weed a gardening bed at an NHS home on West Division St. 2. Doreen pulls weeds from a curbside garden on West Division St. 3. NHS property manager Angel Pantoja takes a weed whacker to over-grown grass in the backyard of an NHS home on West Division. 4. Will and Jett plant native species at the Learning Corridor Urban Oasis. 5. Adam plants a hydrangea at a home on West Division. 6. Stephen prunes shrubs in the front yard of Mr. and Ms. Joyner’s home. The Joyners have actively supported NHS’ work on West Division St. 7. Hastas now have a home in a curbside yard on West Division. All of the plants were donated by Sally Voegeli who also assisted during both volunteering sessions on West Division. 8. (bottom right) Adam and Will plant hastas. What we are reading this week… We are reading this new report from Grounded Solutions on solutions to an affordable housing shortage at any stage of crisis.
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