FW: Interested in community gardens in Central Park?
Nicole Craig
Is there anyone who would like to help work on promoting community gardens in Central Park? Here's an email I sent out recently to the Marquette Neighborhood listserv. Let me know if you'd like to help with this effort!
Best,
Nicole
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From: Nicole Craig
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 6:17 PM
To: Mar...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Interested in community gardens in Central Park?
Hi all,
One of the projects that the new MNA Parks and Gardens committee will be supporting in the upcoming months is the creation of some community gardens in our neighborhood in the new Central Park. There are currently raised beds planned on land between the Willy St Park and bike path (currently a MGE storage lot), but there may be an opportunity for a larger number of community gardens on a different, larger area of the park, if interest was demonstrated in the neighborhood.
I’m organizing a group to go door-to-door in our neighborhood to survey residents and find out if there would be interest. If you’d like to have a community garden plot in Central Park, or would like to support our efforts, please join us! You can take the attached survey around to your neighbors to have them fill out and share info with them about a Central Park public meeting, where they can show up in support of community gardens (flyer attached). The public meeting will be Wednesday, February 2, 6-8pm at Research Products Lab, 130 S. Ingersoll Street.
Please let me know if you’re interested in helping out. We can organize a time to go door-to-door in the upcoming weeks, and make sure that we don’t overlap houses/apartments. Feel free to contact me via email (nic...@cacscw.org<mailto:nic...@cacscw.org>) or phone (home: 251-6631, work: 220-9001) for more information.
Thank you,
Nicole
Nicole Craig
Community Gardens Specialist
Food and Gardens Division
Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, Inc.
1717 N. Stoughton Road
Madison, WI 53704-2605
608-246-4730 ext. 208
nic...@cacscw.org<mailto:nic...@cacscw.org>
www.cacscw.org/gardens<http://www.cacscw.org/gardens>
Interested in learning more about community gardening events and activities and connecting with other gardeners in our area? Join the Madison Area Community Gardeners listserv: http://groups.google.com/group/madison-area-community-gardeners