The city of Hartford got a $50,000 grant from one of the nation’s leading garden-products makers to create a 38,000-square-foot farm within city limits.
During an award presentation Thursday at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hartford Mayor Pedro E. Segarra accepted a $50,000 grant from the Miracle-Gro Garden and Green Spaces Program. Miracle-Gro makes fertilizers, enriched soils and other garden supplies for indoor plantings and outdoor gardens, city officials said.
The funds, to be combined with a $50,000 match from Aetna Inc., will be used to advance The Hartford Grown Project, a collaboration between nonprofit KNOX Inc., the city and Hartford Blooms to establish the farm on Laurel Street for Hartford’s community gardeners, officials said.
The farm will be called the Hartford Grown Headquarters. Additionally, the funding will launch a clean up and beautification project in the spring and construct raised floral beds along a stretch of Franklin Avenue.
