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TVCCA’s Senior Companion Day Program is growing - literally!!

Our partnership with the Town of Groton Parks and Recreation and the Ella T. Grasso Regional Vocational Technical School’s Agricultural Program marked its 4th year of collaboration on the Groton Community Garden. The town provides a free garden plot for our program participants; the school donates starter vegetable plants.

Students work side by side with Senior Companions and our program participants at the school’s greenhouse to identify, label and transplant the vegetables into larger pots. When the plants are ready, Day Program Participants then plant them in the garden, tend to their watering and weeding needs throughout the season, and harvest them when they are mature. Participants take some of the harvest home for their own use and donate the rest to local group homes, nursing homes, and senior centers. Brian Cosgrove, Program Manager, is clearly enthusiastic about the benefits of the program for participants: “It is such a pleasure to see the pride they take in their garden and the things they grow!”