From Wasteland to Green Oasis
May 19, 2010 by The Catskill Chronicle
LIBERTY - A group of Liberty residents, in collaboration with the Liberty Community Development Corporation (CDC), are creating a Community Garden in the heart of downtown – in an empty lot next to the bus shelter on South Main Street. Residents and future gardeners are invited to join the project team on Saturday, May 22, beginning at 10 a.m. at the garden site to learn how they can get involved as volunteers or supporters, or even sign up for one of the approximately 20 gardening beds for the 2010 season.
Says Akira Ohiso, a new Liberty resident and one of the team members: “Our hope is that the garden will become a space for Liberty residents to come together, share ideas, promote engagement in the community and interact with each other and everybody around them. From a practical side, we want to offer people who don’t have private outdoor space the opportunity to build a garden and grow their own food. And together we want to learn about sustainable gardening techniques and how we can live and eat healthier by growing our own produce.”
Heinrich Strauch, the Liberty CDC’s Executive Director, adds: “We are very grateful to the property owner Peter Belgard, who made this lot available to us for our garden. We’re looking forward to presenting him with the first (ripe) South Main tomatoe in honor of his support.”
Start-up funding for the garden comes from Sullivan Renaissance’s Environmental Initiatives Program. "We are really looking forward to working with the Community Vegetable Garden project on Main Street in Liberty," said Denise Frangipane, Program Officer at Sullivan Renaissance. "This project is sure to have a lasting and positive impact on Liberty and the surrounding community."
To provide general information, to sign up gardeners and volunteers, and to raise additional funds, The Liberty Community Garden project team is inviting Liberty residents to visit the garden site on South Main Street on Saturday, May 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
**For more on this subject visit Growing a Sustainable Future in the Op & Ed section.
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From Wasteland to Green Oasis
May 19, 2010 by The Catskill Chronicle
Says Akira Ohiso, a new Liberty resident and one of the team members: “Our hope is that the garden will become a space for Liberty residents to come together, share ideas, promote engagement in the community and interact with each other and everybody around them. From a practical side, we want to offer people who don’t have private outdoor space the opportunity to build a garden and grow their own food. And together we want to learn about sustainable gardening techniques and how we can live and eat healthier by growing our own produce.”
Heinrich Strauch, the Liberty CDC’s Executive Director, adds: “We are very grateful to the property owner Peter Belgard, who made this lot available to us for our garden. We’re looking forward to presenting him with the first (ripe) South Main tomatoe in honor of his support.”
Start-up funding for the garden comes from Sullivan Renaissance’s Environmental Initiatives Program. "We are really looking forward to working with the Community Vegetable Garden project on Main Street in Liberty," said Denise Frangipane, Program Officer at Sullivan Renaissance. "This project is sure to have a lasting and positive impact on Liberty and the surrounding community."
To provide general information, to sign up gardeners and volunteers, and to raise additional funds, The Liberty Community Garden project team is inviting Liberty residents to visit the garden site on South Main Street on Saturday, May 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
**For more on this subject visit Growing a Sustainable Future in the Op & Ed section.
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