History – Let's TALK

past events

February 6 – Ted Johnson – How to Grow Native Plant Seeds workshop
February 27 – Ted Johnson – How to Plan and Design a Native Plant Garden workshop
March 15 – Doug Tallamy Nature’s Best Hope webinar
April 4 – Ted Johnson Native Garden Planting Techniques and Tips workshop –
April 22 – Earth Day Fair
April 30 – Glastonbury Inclusive Volunteers – Painting colorful rocks for our gardens
June 4 – Glastonbury Inclusive Volunteers – Put together golf tournament gift bags
June 9 – Golf tournament at Minnechaug –
August 21 – Ice cream Social
September 18 – Reconnecting Meeting at Welles Turner Memorial Library
September 28 – Tracy Zarillo – My Garden of a Thousand Bees movie and discussion –
October 11 – Donna Kaffenberger – Native seed collecting at Riverfront –
October 16 – Candidates Forum
October 24 – Donna Kaffenberger – Native Plant Seed Collecting and Saving Workshop
November 4 – Native garden planting at First Church

February 7 – “Ways to create and enhance Wildlife habitat on your property using Native Plants” – Peter Piccone, wildlife biologist. At Welles Turner Memorial Library
April 18 – Beneficial Tree presentation with Allen Blake and Beth Brantley from Bartlett Tree. Part of Glastonbury Adult Education.
April 20 – Earth Day Fair
June 3 – Stonewall Speakers event. Co-cosponsored with Welles-Tuner Memorial Library

March 15 – Discussion about Affordable Housing with Erinn Boggs and Sam Giffin of OCA and Rep. Jason Rojas (Social Justice Team)
March 29 – The Victim Next Door – Domestic Abuse Awareness (Citizen education Team)
April 17 – Pitch in for the Parks – clean up at Riverfront Park (Environmental Action Team)
Pollinator Pathway #No Mow May (Environmental Action Team)
May 26 – How Social Media Impacts Our Lives (Citizen Education Team)
June 1 – Glastonbury Community Voices: Why Affordable Housing Options are so Important (Social Justice Team)
October 13 – Candidates’ Forum on Zoom
December 13 – Affordable Housing in Glastonbury 101

January 17 – Report about Affordable Housing in Glastonbury by Tyche Planning & Policy Group commissioned by the Social Action Team
April 4 – Conversations that Work. First of 4 weekly sessions based on the book Beyond your Bubble by Tania Israel
April 19 – Planning for Equity – Jointly with OCA
April 23 – Earth Day Fair, sponsored by TALK in conjunction with South Church
Glastonbury Pollinator Pathway sponsored No Mow May
May 11 – Opening Doors for Open Choice – a program about Open Choice in Glastonbury sponsored by the Social Action Team
June 9 – Zoom talk by Tracy Zarillo, Department of Entomology of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, who did a CT Bee
Checklist presentation.
June 10 – Birdies, Bees, & Bogeys Golf Tournament fundraiser sponsored by Glastonbury Pollinator Pathway
June 29 – Virtual Screening of the documentary “Purple: America, We Need to Talk”
July 25 – Time to Heal 2.0. A group discussion where each participant talked about what had influenced their lives and what had brought them to the meeting.
August 15 – Icecream Social
Saeptember 10 – Pollinator Pathway Native Plany Sale
Oct.10 – Candidates Forum on Zoom

Jan. 20 – Participation in Women’s March in Hartford
Jan. 22 – MaryJoan Picone – discussion about Glastonbury’s migrant farm workers
March 12 – Fix-It – movie about healthcare
March 19 – Big Pharma – movie about healthcare
May 21 – The Birds & The Bees – with Grace Kenney – discussion about pollinators
June 16 – Participation in Glastonbury Strawberry Moon activities
July 11 – Play in for the Planet
Aug.27 – Getting Big Money out of Politics
Oct. 1 – America, Who Are We? Readers Theater
Oct. 15 – Candidates Forum