ASD students pair with Elizabeth Park Conservacy

American School for the Deaf partners with Elizabeth Park ConserWEST HARTFORD>>Students in the Employability Class at the American School for the Deaf (ASD) formed a work partnership with the Elizabeth Park Conservancy this fall.
The Employability Class is in its first year of operation and Elizabeth Park Conservancy was their first partnership.
Students removed and planted bulbs, fertilized and turned over garden beds, and weeded the rose gardens while learning about different types of gardening tools.
The partnership started in September and students worked through November 2013. The students, with teacher Joan Hanna, arrived in the afternoons, Monday-Thursday, and assisted with various gardening jobs alongside Andrea Masisak, manager of grounds and volunteers and Doug Clifford, conservancy gardener, Bob Prill, conservancy horticulturist and various Hartford city workers, including Jose, a deaf city worker.