Albertus Magnus College Performs Community Garden Clean-up
Part of Annual Earth Fest Celebration; Experiential Learning Day
New Haven, Conn., April 17, 2025 – In celebration of Earth Month, Albertus Magnus College students, staff, and faculty will help prepare the Albertus Community Garden for spring plantings.
Who: Albertus Servant Leaders
What: Garden clean-up and planting of fruits, vegetables, and herbs
Where: The Dr. Hilda Speicher Community Garden; between Siena and Sansbury Hall (Albertus Magnus College is located at 700 Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn.)
When: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 2-2:45p.m.
Albertus established the Community Garden in 2018 as a way to support local food banks. Since its inception, more than 1,300 pounds of food have been donated to such organizations as Dinner for a Dollar in Hamden, The Keefe Community Center, Fridge Haven, and St. Ann’s Soup Kitchen in New Haven.
In addition to donations of fresh food, the garden has participated in several on-campus and off campus events, including a community health event at the Keefe Center and a collaboration with Swords into Plowshares Northeast, an organization that works with local gun buyback programs to melt down guns and turn them into gardening implements.
The garden has also hosted three Albertus students as summer interns, and the garden serves as an outdoor experiential learning site for multiple Albertus classes, including, among others, Child Development and a Political Science class on Urban Agriculture and the Politics of Food.
Currently the garden is overseen by a volunteer crew of faculty and staff as well as donated service hours performed by Albertus students. Each year, the garden receives financial support from the Eckhart Center as part of a Shalom Grant from the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
About Albertus Magnus College
Albertus Magnus College, founded in 1925, is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. As New England's most diverse Catholic College, Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For eight consecutive years, graduating classes at Albertus have achieved post-graduate employment and graduate school success at a rate of at least 95%. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and 12 graduate programs. Proud to enroll a student body where more than half of its students come from minority backgrounds with nearly the same percentage of undergraduates receiving Federal Pell Grants and being first generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, General Health Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, Public Health, and Supply Chain Management; among its graduate programs is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program. Just two years from its historic 100 th Anniversary Year, the College is implementing its Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, which articulates an inspiring, bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.