Farm-to-Table Veggies on the Menu

Mother-daughter volunteers from the Fairfield Chapter of the National Charity League, Inc., prepare the organic vegetable garden.

Animals have to eat healthy too, and thanks to volunteers from the Fairfield Chapter of the National Charity League, Inc., critter residents at the Center at Fairfield will soon be dining on home-grown organic greens fresh from their own garden. 

As part of on-going support to Connecticut Audubon, 17 NCL, Inc. Fairfield Chapter members spent their day off at the Center, on April 26, planting a vegetable garden that will supply food for many of the education animals living there. Braving rainy conditions, they weeded and prepared a raised garden bed with starter plants of Swiss chard, lettuce, broccoli and spinach, and sowed carrot seeds to round out the selections.

The vegetable garden is a true community collaboration. The starter plants were supplied by Gilberties Herb Gardens of Easton, and on-going garden care and maintenance like weeding, watering and harvesting, are being undertaken by Master Naturalist volunteers, and by students in the Jr. Animal Care program at the Center at Fairfield.  read more>>