Garden Club Of Newtown Visited

Sticks & Stones Farm For Season’s First Meeting

The members of The Garden Club of Newtown enjoyed their first meeting of the 2009-10 year on September 22 with a potluck lunch at picturesque Sticks & Stones Farm.

Lunch was followed by a walking tour of the property conducted by owner Tim Currier, who is also a dry stone mason and registered lichen moss farmer. His farm is within the Hattertown district of Newtown, at the origin of the Pootatuck River, with acres of hilly rocks and woods and is filled with amazing creations made of rocks and natural vegetable gardens as well as the unusual moss farming that the garden club was particularly interested in viewing.

The various types of moss grown on this remarkable property are propagated in trays in the shade underneath the trees in shady areas, and garden club members were fascinated by the numerous varieties and the many possible uses for these amazing plants.

The Garden Club of Newtown meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month, usually at C.H. Booth Library, and i       s always interested in new members. In addition to maintaining the gardens at The Matthew Curtiss House on Main Street and the Blue Star Highway marker at the intersection of Wasserman Way and Main Street South (near the VFW Post), the club uses profits from its Annual Christmas Greens Sale to contribute to the community in many ways, including scholarships for Newtown High School graduates through the Newtown Scholarship Association.

Anyone interested in more information about the club is urged to call club president Beth Caldwell at 942-2445.