Yesterday we broke ground with the installation of the waterfall.  Rob Townsend, owner of Aqua Scapes of Connecticut, spent the day teaching seniors from Ella T. Grasso Regional Vocational Technical High School how to create this beautiful water feature. The students came with shovels in hand and high spirits, making the day really fun and rewarding. Our local technical schools are so amazing! They teach our children through hands-on experience and I could see the willingness to learn, as well as the confidence in their own abilities, as they worked together building this structure. There was a lot of camaraderie and laughter which was also heartwarming.

Thanks to Rob for sharing his time and know-how with our youth, especially as he is getting busy with his pond cleaning/installation season.  It is volunteers like Rob, Larry Fritch, Department Head for the Bioscience Environmental Technology at Grasso, and his students, that make community projects like this possible. By the way, Larry and his students wholeheartedly embraced helping with the garden and will be doing the installation of the pollinator garden and meadow as well as helping to design both of them. It is so exciting to be actually moving into the building phase of the garden. We will be completing the falls sometime next week.  We’re still uploading the photos from yesterday so stay tuned!