Seed library opens at Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton

SHELTON - The Olde Ripton Garden Club’s Seed Library at the Plumb Memorial Library is open!

Perennial, annual, and vegetable seed packs are available to the public this gardening season.

Please limit 3 seed packets per person. All seeds are free to the public.

The Library is at 65 Wooster St.

For more information: https://sheltonlibrarysystem.org/shelton-seed-library.../

Olde Ripton Garden Club offers seeds at Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton

SHELTON - The Olde Ripton Garden Club’s Seed Library at Plumb Memorial Library is open!

Perennial, annual, and vegetable seed packs are available to the public this gardening season.

Please limit 3 seed packets per person. All seeds are free to the public.

For more information: https://sheltonlibrarysystem.org/shelton-seed-library.../

Shelton Seed Library reopens Saturday at Plumb Memorial Library

SHELTON - The Shelton Seed Library reopens for the 2025 season THIS Saturday, Feb. 1 at Plumb Memorial Library, 65 Wooster St. All seeds are free to the public, limit 3 seed packets per person.

The Shelton Seed Library is managed by the Olde Ripton Garden Club in partnership with the Shelton Library System.

 A special thank you to our generous donors, Friends of the Shelton Libraries, Hilltop Blooms Shelton / Allison Knick-Menendez, Benedict's Home & Garden, UConn Extension Master Gardener Program and our amazing Shelton gardeners!

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Olde Ripton Garden Club to host workshop at Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton

 

Garden Club, Plumb Memorial Library share Shelton Seed Library

The Shelton Seed Library is managed in partnership with the Olde Ripton Garden Club and the Shelton Library System. 

Started in 2023, the seed library collects, stores, and shares seeds with the community for free.

It will be open March 1-Sept. 30.
Open to the public. No library card needed. Limit 3 seed packets per person.

For more information: https://sheltonlibrarysystem.org/shelton-seed-library-2024/

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Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton to celebrate renovation at open house

SHELTON - Plumb Memorial Library will host an open house Saturday celebrating completion of the renovation with a variety of events scheduled from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

• The Friends Annual Meeting at 10 a.m.

• The Friends ongoing Book Sale will be taking place in the upstairs Reading Room all day long!

• The Shelton Senior Center Songsters will present “Songs from Broadway Musicals” accompanied by David Scrimenti in the downstairs Meeting Room.

• The Olde Ripton Garden Club will be showcasing its new “Seed Library” in the Media Room.

• Artist Bruce Zboray will be showing his paintings in the gallery.

• Special events in the Children’s Department and goodie bags will be available all day.

The renovation project has been a five-year event done in four phases that was undertaken by Library Director, Joan Stokes, and the Library Board led by James Geissler and including treasurer Aleta Miner, Jean Cayer, secretary Julie Blakeman, Stephen Bellis, and Louis Dagostine.

The City of Shelton has worked in conjunction with the Library Board and staff to make the Plumb Memorial Library ADA compliant and to assist with the renovation.

All are welcome to visit the library for this special event and view the positive changes that have been made.

For information call 203-924-1580.

The Library is at 65 Wooster St.

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Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton to celebrate renovation

 

Olde Ripton Garden Club to hold cleanup of Ripton Road in Shelton

SHELTON - Come out and show your investment in helping keep our community clean from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Earth Day. 

The Olde Ripton Garden Club will be meeting at our beautiful Huntington Green and working our way up Ripton Road (concluding at Shelton's History Center). We will be picking up litter; gloves and trash bags will be provided. 

Individuals can park at the Community Center.

Any student in need of volunteer hours, please bring any necessary paperwork with you.

For further information on Shelton's continued efforts to keep our community clean, please visit their website at http//www.donttrashshelton.org

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Olde Ripton Garden Club in Shelton readies annual plant sale

 This is shared from the Olde Ripton Garden Club Facebook page. 

Olde Ripton Garden Club in Shelton to hold plant sale at St. Paul's Episcopal Church

 

Olde Ripton Garden Club to hold plant sale at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Shelton

 

Olde Ripton Garden Club in Shelton to hold film on spring planting

SHELTON - The Olde Ripton Garden Club will show “Martha’s Spring Gardening” at 10 a.m. April 1 at Plumb Memorial Library, Community Room (downstairs), 65 Wooster St. 
Members are admitted free; visitor fee is $5. 
Refreshments will be served.  

The film features  topics including early spring fertilizer, dividing hellebores, new herb gardens, planting primroses, and arranging seasonal alliums and tulips.
The Club will host a talk by horticulture chair Joyce Fedorko on projects for April in the garden. Members will display flowers and arrangements from their homes and gardens of the season.
A member drive is currently under way and new members are encouraged to join at any level of gardening - from beginner to master gardener! 

Projects include working on community gardens around town, holiday decorating at public buildings in Shelton, a garden therapy program with seniors, and youth gardening in Shelton schools.

Annual dues for membership are $35 for monthly meetings (except January and February). 
Meetings include speakers, a light lunch, great conversation, and friendly activities. 
Interested persons are invited to attend this meeting to see if they want to join. 
For more information visit www.olderiptongardenclub.org or Like Us on Facebook at: Facebook.com/SheltonORGC.


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Olde Ripton Garden Club in Shelton to meet at Plumb Memorial Library

Olde Ripton Garden Club members pose at an  event on the Huntington Green./ Photo from the Club's Facebook page.

SHELTON - The Olde Ripton Garden Club will kick off its 2019 gardening season at its first meeting of the calendar year March 4. 

Area gardeners and enthusiasts are asked to consider joining the Club and assist with its mission of beautifying streets, highways and grounds around public buildings in Shelton. The Club provides education and knowledge of horticulture and preservation of the environment.

Area residents can join no matter what level of gardening they are at – from beginner to master gardener! 

Projects include working on community gardens around town, holiday decorating at public buildings in Shelton, a garden therapy program with seniors, and youth gardening in Shelton schools. Getting involved with activities of the Club is a good way to get to know neighbors and be active in projects related to gardening, house plants, horticulture classes, trips, landscape design, and programs focusing on pollinators, birds, and conservation.

Meetings include speakers, a light lunch, great conversation and friendly activities. 

Interested parties are invited to attend a meeting to see if they want to join.

The first meeting will be held at 10 a.m. March 4 at Plumb Memorial Library Community Room, 65 Wooster St. 

A nominal visitor fee of $5 is requested to help defray costs of program, lunch, and refreshments. Annual dues are $35 for those who wish to join.

The Olde Ripton Garden Club is a non-profit organization. 

The club website with detailed information is http://www.olderiptongardenclub.org.

*Information shared from the Club's Facebook page.

Valley Community Foundation helps center in Shelton create garden

SHELTON – A $2,500 grant from the Valley Community Foundation recently helped volunteers with Adam’s House construct a garden surrounding the memorial walkway for the nonprofit grief education center. 

Adam’s House Founder and Executive Director Allison Wysota said, "We are thrilled that our front garden is now a beautiful, welcoming space that will offer peace and healing not only to grieving children and families that enter our program, but to all in the Shelton community that pass by our doors.” 

As part of the Adam’s House “Healing Hearts” program, children and their families can create a commemorative brick to place on the Memorial Walkway to honor and celebrate the life of a loved one. 

VCF board chairman Alan Tyma and 

Adam's House founder Alison Wysota.

The Valley Community Foundation grant funded the plantings and construction of the gardens that encompass the Memorial Walkway. 

The Olde Ripton Garden Club in Shelton led by Garden Designer Renee Marsh, owner of A Simpler Place, contributed the project’s landscape design. 

Twelve volunteers from the Shelton office of Nasdaq made up the labor force that turned Marsh’s landscape design into reality.   

During a warm, sunny day, the Nasdaq volunteers cheerfully planted a new array of hydrangeas, lilies, catmint, roses, and a dogwood tree to create the Memorial Walkway landscaping and front garden. 

“Our Nasdaq Shelton office was proud to partner with Adam’s House in their garden restoration event,” said Tanya Smigocki, Nasdaq Sr. Advisor, Corporate Responsibility 
“Our employees give back by exercising their corporate know-how and investing their time and talent in communities to provide the biggest impact.”

Wysota said the completion of the Memorial Walkway project could not come at a better time. Adam’s House currently has openings for families, including children from 3 to 18 years of age, to participate in its eight-week “Healing Hearts” program. 

The new program starts Aug. 30 and is offered at no charge to grieving families. 
Interested family members must pre-register by contacting Adam’s House Executive Director Allison Wysota at 203-513-2808 or adamshousect@gmail.com.

Located in a charming, multi-story Victorian home at 241 Coram Ave., Adam’s House is a supportive place where bereaved families come together to share experiences and ideas on how to navigate their grief. 

Nurturing educational workshops, arts and crafts programs and personalized discussion groups are part of the program. 
“We believe no child, no family should ever grieve alone,” Wysota said. “Through educational programs guided by compassionate, trained facilitators, we can help grieving families ease their feelings of loneliness and isolation and build hope and resiliency.”

This is a press release from Adam's House.