Cordalie Benoit, a former lawyer who closed her practice to attend the Forestry School, now has a garden-filled life. She is Director of Community Gardens at the New Haven Land Trust. There are more than 50 community gardens hidden away in all neighborhoods of the city, initiated by residents and assisted by the Land Trust. Each garden has its own rules, and each family has its own plot.She is also President of the Elm City Parks Conservancy, which helps park friends’ groups by acting as a liaison between users and the parks, organizing activities to encourage use, and helping solve park problems (often caused by a park being in two different towns).
Before moving to Court Street near Wooster Square in New Haven, Cordalie had a gorgeous garden on two acres in Newtown. Now she has two very small gardens -- one even has a pool -- and she grows vegetables at a community garden.
In addition, she is re-landscaping the family home (an old farmhouse) in Westerly, Rhode Island, which she and one brother purchased from her parents’ estate last December.
Cordalie “loves the people” in the Garden Club, has enjoyed Kitchen I, the programs at the meetings, and lunch with Betsy and Bonnie. She found the trip to Stone Barns Farm fun and fascinating.
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