Explore the Future Route of the Shoreline Greenway Trail

Update for Explore the Future Route

of the Shoreline Greenway Trail

in New Haven- Part II

Fort Hale Park

Sunday, August 18, 9:30 AM - 12 PM

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Peels & Wheels

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Meeting point for Part II is Fort Hale Park. We will be traveling approximately 3.5 miles to the Long Wharf Area, the endpoint of the walk. From there we will shuttle back to Fort Hale.

The City of New Haven has received more than $9 million since December 2022 to complete a new extension into New Haven of the Shoreline Greenway Trail (SGT) which, when completed, will be a contiguous multi-use trail extending from New Haven to Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison.

In March 2024 the City released its proposed plan for the SGT expansion. The new segment will connect the future Shoreline Greenway Trail route at the New Haven/ East Haven town line with the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail and East Coast Greenway in the Long Wharf area, fulfilling a 25-year dream of trail advocates for an interconnected network of greenways and cycling systems across Greater New Haven.

Excitement is building for this unique recreational and economic development resource that will link existing parks and greenways and provide improved access to some of the most scenic and historic places on the east side of New Haven harbor, including the remains of an 18th-19th century military fort, the Pardee Seawall promenade, and Forbes Bluff, truly one of the most spectacular spots on the entire Connecticut shoreline.

You may have seen some of the recent publicity about the plans for the SGT expansion:

"Move Over, Appalachian Trail"

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/.../paving_the...

On this walk, join local experts and advocates for a walking 'preview' of the southern section of the SGT extension into New Haven. We will talk about the long history of the 'harborside trail' concept for New Haven, examine some ways the proposed plan could be tweaked to provide better access to scenic resources and a better user experience, and discuss the many environmental justice issues affecting New Haven's port and harbor area.

The walk will be led by longtime advocate of a harborside trail, Chris Ozyck, as well as Aaron Goode of the Bioregional Group and representatives from the Shoreline Greenway Trail organization.

Meeting point for Part II is Fort Hale Park. We will be traveling approximately 3.5 miles to the Long Wharf Area, the endpoint of the walk. From there we will shuttle back to Fort Hale.

Sponsored by Shoreline Greenway Trail, Inc., New Haven Friends of the Farmington Canal Greenway, and the Bioregional Group.

Questions? Contact us! Aaron.Goode@gmail.com, 203-350-3795

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UrbanScapes Native Plant Nursery

133 Hazel St, New Haven CT

CPEN along with the local Menunkatuck Audubon Society received an Audubon in Action Grant in 2020 to create a native plant nursery on one of the vacant lots at the intersection. During the pandemic, they started a pilot program, growing about 300 perennials and shrubs to sell or give away. The Urbanscapes Native Plant Nursery, New Haven’s only native plant nursery, was born. Since then, the nursery has blossomed and in 2024, in addition to growing 3,000 native plants from plugs and 600 native shrubs, volunteers are growing trees and salt marsh plants to use in a local marsh restoration project.

The nursery is open for sales to anyone interested in native plants. You can visit UrbanScapes Native Plant Nursery on Saturdays 9:30 - 12:30 at 133 Hazel St in New Haven, or go to menunkatuck.org to view plant selections and place online orders for pick-up.

Earth Loyalty & Bioregional Practice

Selected Writings of Fred Cervin

by New Haven - Quinnipiac Bioregional Group, 2015

Publisher: New Haven Bioregional Publications

ISBN 978-0-9908460-0-0

90 pages, 9"x 6" format $12

From the book's preface by Mark Mitsock:

"Fred Cervin believed that the relation of the human species to the natural world is in a state of crisis, and that this crisis has both a practical and spiritual dimension. The practical and the spiritual are typically thought to operate on separate planes, but in Fred's vision they

are seamlessly blended ..."

It's obviously from his very first poem "Three Medicine Songs" that Fred Cervin was a dedicated bioregionalist and activist who walked his talk.

In 2005 he co-founded the New Haven Bioregional Group in his local New Haven, Connecticut to put his ideas into action. Fred died in August 2013, but the Group is carrying on his work and perpetuating Cervin's life-place ideas and actions by producing this book of his writings for all of us and future generations.

Again and again throughout Earth Loyalty & Bioregional Practice, Cervin is resolute in his dedication to honoring the Earth and living in harmony with ALL of its occupants. In his Earth Loyalty As A Spiritual Orientation / Queen of My Heart he strongly urges everyone to make a vow to the Earth to live with love, consideration and respect in each of our places

as he does in his.

Cervin's poems are lyrical and filled with his heartfelt connection with the land, they strongly flow together in clearly presenting a variety of vitally important aspects of his life view. In his prose, he provides his thoughts on the critical state of the environment and its causes while also offering solutions, i.e. from growing one's own food to redefining our sense of who we are as humans, to reestablishing mutually beneficial relationships with the Earth

and everyone inhabiting the planet to rebuilding and maintaining strong communities in which communication, cooperation...as well as good home grown meals...are engaged in

and shared by all community members.

The context of Cervin's poems and prose resides in his awareness of and distress at the current state of the planet and how Earth continues to be plundered by profit-seeking individuals and corporations. This is Fred Cervin's wake up call to all of us to step back from our consumerism and reconnect with Mother Earth who freely provides everything

that we need. It is an urgent plea on his part and well worth our focused attention and

active participation.

by Jean Lindgren

Reprinted here with the permission of Planet Drum PULSE where this

review originally appeared in their Spring/Summer 2016 issue.

Planet Drum, PO Box 31251, SF, CA 94131

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