2016 saw us voting for our own application — one of three that made it to this stage — in the GCA Founders’ Fund competition. With our prize of $10,000 and monies the Club raised on its own, we funded replanting the park’s five entrances, following the winning plans from the Partners for Plants at Keney Park design competition. We also underwrote several years of From the Ground Up: Best Practices in Land Management Basics, a course for City of Hartford parks employees on such fundamentals as the importance of biodiversity, plant identification, pollinator preservation and invasive plant management. And we created and installed signs at all the Keney entrances, the golf course and the cricket pitches to explain the park’s flora, fauna, landmarks and history. (See The Keney Park Project above.)