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Griffin Community Garden in Derby offers summer squash for the picking

DERBY - Our summer squash is about ready to pick at the Griffin Community Garden, free and open to all!

Relatively low in carbs, calories, and fat, summer squash is high in fiber, an excellent source of vitamin C, and contains B vitamins and important minerals such as potassium and magnesium.

Quick Prep Tip: Try summer squash raw in salads, sautéed or roasted with olive oil as a side dish or spiraled into “zoodles” as a healthy substitution for noodles.

Opened in 2018, the Griffin Community Garden is designed to engage its neighbors to actively participate in selecting, planting, maintaining, harvesting, and preserving fresh, nutritious produce.

Located on the Griffin Hospital campus, the garden is part of Griffin's commitment to its Planetree patient-centered care which stressed the importance of nutrition for overall health and well-being.

The ultimate goal is to help residents obtain healthy fruits and vegetables and encourage neighborhood residents to start their own gardens and improve their eating habits, helping alleviate one of the biggest social obstacles to good health.

At additional nearby community gardens, similar veggies are free to harvest from the newly formed collaboration of several @Valley-Community-Gardens.

Find one near you:

Ansonia

• Beaver Brook – 96 Central St.

• Salvation Army – 26 Lester St.

Derby

• Griffin Hospital – 130 Division St.

• 5th & Olivia Streets

• Derby Public Library – 313 Elizabeth St.

Seymour

• Seymour Community Center – 20 Pine St.

• Trinity Episcopal Church – 91 Church St.

• Little Free Pantry on Skokorat – 58 Skokorat St.

Shelton

• Good Shepherd Church – 182 Coram Ave.

Oxford

• Immanuel Lutheran ECLA Church – 25 Great Hill Road

Shared from the Griffin Hospital Facebook page.

Derby Neck Library to host Tales and Trails fun Wednesday

Rescheduled from last week: 

DERBY - Tales and Trails will be at the Osbornedale Pond tomorrow at 11 a.m. Meet in front of the Osborne Homestead Museum [at 500 Hawthorne Ave.] where we will read and learn about frogs and toads before going on an amphibian hunt! 

The weather looks perfect, and we hope to see you there!

Shared from the Derby Neck Library Facebook page.

'Turnback Tuesday' features book from 1900, "The Salt Box House'

Turnback Tuesday is sharing a portion of the “Salt Box House.”

This peg, as it states, was used in the house itself when it was built in 1758.

The book “The Salt Box House” was written in 1900 by Miss Jane DeForest Shelton. She describes the house after the last occupant had passed away. Miss Shelton felt the house seemed to lose heart when Miss Mary died.

This book is available to borrow at Derby Public Library.

Thanks as always to the Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week.

Kellogg Estate in Derby to host free Pop of Color quilt show

DERBY - The Kellogg Estate will host a free outdoor show this weekend displaying quilts from Southern Modern Quilt Guild members and other quilters from across Connecticut. The show is from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily July 24-27.

A variety of colors and sizes will be on display around the grounds and gardens.  

Visit the Osborne Homestead Museum at 500 Hawthorne Ave. to see a collection of vintage quilts throughout the rooms of the house. A special showing of the Farmington River Quilt Project in its entirety will also be displayed in the education center totaling 90 feet in length.  

Quilts displayed outdoors only if the weather allows. Call 203-734-2513 to verify outdoor display if weather is threatening rain.