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[Maxine Bailey]

I think the Wylde Center would be the easiest and best long term solution; getting permission from local home owners in the second option coulp possibly delay a spring start.

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LEWIS B & TAMARA JONES <jones...@bellsouth.net>: Jan 17 01:14PM -0800 DHS Gardeners:   >Tamara >404-862-3235   >Wylde Center director Stephanie Van Parys invited us to move to the center's Sugar Creek Garden. We met there with her and J.C. Hines, who manages that space. They use it with school groups and have a row crop area, with plans to grow some higher end for-profit culinary herbs. There's an unused grassy, sunny corner, flat to gently sloping, that measures 39x47 feet at its largest point, narrowing to half that at the top. It looks quite small, but Tamara and Moira judged it would hold about 16 4x8 plots, or Stephanie said it could be gardened communally, like the current DHS "lower 40" beds. The garden already has compost bins, a shed, tools and on-site water, including a sink, from both a cistern and (we think) city pipe. We'd have to pull several hoses up to reach this corner, but it's doable. Gardeners would follow the same requirements as those for plot holders at the Oakhurst Garden, including dues and volunteer hours. As it happens, DHS garden founder Anna Rose will be working for the Wylde Center this spring, running their annual plant sale (and recruiting member volunteers.) The advantages to this site are that it's plug and play: join the Wylde Center, decide whether to move materials over from DHS to build raised beds or garden in ground, and be ready to get plants in the ground this spring.   >We met with Decatur officials Lena Stevens and John Madajewski at a possible site in Hidden Cove Park at the end of Westchester Drive, a few doors down from Jan's house (also Michael's neighborhood.) It's a wide, flat, grassy flood plain surrounded on three sides by the creek and so has several restrictions. Raised beds are not allowed. The shed could possibly be placed on an existing paved space, not sure. Soil is quite soggy after rains, and it floods occasionally. City requires that immediate neighbors be consulted (there are four who overlook the space.) There's an old county water meter at the street, but services were cut about 15 years ago when the city bought the property and demolished the house. It's unknown whether there are still pipes in the ground and it would take some research to see if we could get service restored. There's also a hydrant at the street that could be tapped, but the hose would need to go about as far as at Sugar Creek. We'd have to fill out the official city garden application, present a landscape plan and likely apply for some city variances, which Lena and John thought would be no big deal. Both adjoining neighborhoods would be notified, and there could either be opposition or interest from additional gardeners. The garden would have to be started from scratch. All the various hurdles might take a while.

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