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
About Albertus Magnus College: Founded in 1925, Albertus is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money, and The New York Times, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For nine consecutive years, at least 95% of Albertus graduates have attained employment or gone on to graduate studies within six months of completing their degrees. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and graduate program levels. Proud to enroll a student body where nearly half of its undergraduate students receive Federal Pell Grants and are first-generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, including BSN and Connecticut's first LPN-to-BSN; General Health Sciences; Interdisciplinary Studies; and Public Health. Among its graduate offerings is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program, and it is just one of three schools to offer a Master of Science in Human Services. In 2025-26, Albertus is celebrating its historic 100th Anniversary and completing implementation of the Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, with a 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.