Trainings & Events

Join the Southwest Conservation District on July 9th and 12th for Water Week for Urban Farmers in New Haven. Water Week is all about sustainable water practices that can support urban farmers. Please see below for additional information:

Wednesday, July 9th: Learn about the basics of integrating hydropnics and aquapoincs into our food systems. Participants will see exactly how hydroponics/aquaponics works with models at Sound School and making a 5-gallon bucket hydroponic system. Time to be determined. Please fill out this poll to inform the Southwest Conservation District when you are most available to join this workshop. 

Saturday, July 12th from 10am to 12pm: Learn about the basics of irrigation design, installation, maintenance, and overall water management. Participants will be invited to reinforce and arrange irrigation lines for hands-on learning to improve the water system at Armory. 

Saturday, July 12th from 1 to 4pm: Shortly after the workshop, please join the Southwest Conservation District at the West River Water Festival, organized by their partner CPEN. Celebrate water with free family fun, food, canoe rides, touch tank, watershed education, native plant workshops, and tours of West River Peace Garden.

Free cover crop seeds will be distributed to every registered attendee. Register here!
 

UConn CLEAR’s Land Use Academy is holding an in-person training for land use commisisoners on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at UConn's Middlesex County Extension Center located at 1066 Saybrook Road, Haddam, CT, 06438.

Renata Bertotti, AICP, Assistant Extension Educator in LU Planning and Climate Resilience, UConn Extension will present "Fundamentals of Site Plan Reading and Interpretation." This training is most helpful to newly appointed or elected Land Use Commissioners and those with little or no experience in site plan reading and interpretation. This training may be eligible for two (2.0) commissioner training hours as per CGS Sec. 8-4c. (Fair and Affordable Housing hour will NOT be covered).

For more information, contact Renata Bertotti, UConn CLEAR at [email protected], (860) 345-5210.

UConn CLEAR is a partnership of the Departments of Extension and Natural Resources in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources and the CT Sea Grant Program.

Price: $20.00
 

UConn CLEAR’s Land Use Academy is holding an in-person training for land use commisisoners on Thursday, July 24, 2025, at UConn's Middlesex County Extension Center located at 1066 Saybrook Road, Haddam, CT, 06438.

Renata Bertotti, AICP, Assistant Extension Educator in LU Planning and Climate Resilience, UConn Extension will present "Fundamentals of Site Plan Reading and Interpretation," this training is most helpful to newly appointed or elected Land Use Commissioners and those with little or no experience in site plan reading and interpretation. This training may be eligible for two (2.0) commissioner training hours as per CGS Sec. 8-4c. (Fair and Affordable Housing hour will NOT be covered).

For more information, contact Renata Bertotti, UConn CLEAR at [email protected], (860) 345-5210.

UConn CLEAR is a partnership of the Departments of Extension and Natural Resources in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources and the CT Sea Grant Program.

Price: $20.00