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New Canaan Nature Center presents mostly grant-funded native-seed greenhouse plan, targets 2027 growing season
Summary
Bill Flynn of the New Canaan Nature Center asked the commission to support a plan to build a new native-seed propagation greenhouse (estimated all-in cost ~$350,000) next to the herb cottage; a $200,000 grant is already secured and the center expects to fund the remainder from its capital-improvement reserves and donations, with no town funds requested.
Bill Flynn of the New Canaan Nature Center presented a plan to build a new native-seed propagation greenhouse on town-owned nature-center property, outlining how the structure would support habitat-restoration work, education and community giveaways of locally propagated plants.
Flynn told the Conservation Commission the project fits a three-phase approach: (1) the new greenhouse adjacent to the herb cottage, (2) an education building to support preschool classrooms and programming, and (3) work to address the existing 1982 greenhouse later. He said the greenhouse manufacturer example shown in his slides is a prefabricated model; the…
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