Community Garden
I’ve been reading about community gardens recently. I think it would be a lot of fun to have one – to have so much space as well as get to know other people who enjoy gardening. So I decided to google community gardens in the city I live in to see if there were any close by. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out there is – it’s not the best area of the city but it’s in the same neighborhood where I went to high school and worked for awhile.
There was an email attached to the listing so I sent off one a week or two ago to find out the specifics. I got an email back this morning, so here are the details. Last year was their first season. It costs $10 for a season, there are 16 4′x16′ plots. They don’t allow pesticides and there are several rain barrels on site. Unfortunately she wasn’t able to tell me if they’d have any plots available – she won’t know til March.
So does this sound like a good community garden? The plots sound huge to me, and $10 doesn’t sound like much. I like the fact that it’s close by, about a 5 minute drive. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.
Sowing The Seeds said,
January 5, 2009 at 3:35 am
This sounds like a great community garden to me. I like the ‘no pesticide’ policy, I think this is very important in a communal gardening space. Great having water on site too
I would say ‘Go for it”. Community gardens are so cool, you can learn so much and meet so many interesting people from such diverse and culturally rich backgrounds. Goodluck 