NBT, garden club volunteers landscape Habitat home

NBT, garden club volunteers landscape Habitat home

A volunteer crew from NBT Bank went right to work grading fresh topsoil for the future front lawn at the Habitat for Humanity home on Rudd Pond Road.

Photo by John Coston

MILLERTON — Volunteers arrived on a sunny Tuesday morning on May 29 to pitch in to landscape the new Habitat for Humanity home on Rudd Pond Road.

The home, now occupied by the family that purchased the home last year, was transformed by gangs of help from NBT Bank and members of The Garden Club of Orange & Dutchess Counties.

North East Town Board member Meg Winkler stopped by to lend a hand and check in with Jessica Muccio, chief development officer of Hab itat for Humanity of Dutchess County.

Native Landscapes in Pawling provided and delivered perennial plants and shrubs for foundation planting, as well as mulch. McEnroe Organic Farm in Millerton donated and delivered premium garden soil for the planting beds.

Members of The Garden Club of Orange & Dutchess Counties, from left, Marcy Wagman, Sarah Peacock, Dorian Winslow, Linda Rohleder, Linda Tawse, Carrie O’Leary and Elinor Hart. Photo by John Coston

The Town of North East donated the land for the affordable housing project. The house is approximately 1,400 square feet with three bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on a half-acre plot of land.

Under an affordable housing initiative, the program allowed families to apply for this ranch-style house at 30% of their household income.

Besides its homebuying program, Habitat for Humanity of Dutchess County also provides a home repair programs that assists in installation and building of access ramps, porch and screen repair and landscaping.

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