News from NOFA/Massachusetts
Gardening the Community secures land in Springfield
by Kristin Brennan GTC Coordinator for NOFA/Mass
Novemeber 2, 2006
Thank you for your overwhelming support during GTC's land crisis that started last fall and has lasted until just this past week!
A private business owner, Jack Mitchell of Mitchell Machine (a business that has existed in the Mitchell family for three generations in Maple High Six Corners Neighborhood of Springfield) has agreed to let us use a parcel of land (approximately 10,000 square feet) adjacent to his building. He says, "Let's try it, I want to help out." The potential is great - he owns at least another acre and a half all around the building, full sun, hardly landscaped.
On Saturday, Ruby Maddox (GTC's director for 4 years) brought a group from Mt Holyoke to begin prepping the land. Kids from the street (which on one block hosts 4 abandoned homes) flocked to see what was going on. "It will take a lot of work to put a garden here," Darien, 9 years old, said. But she stuck around to see it happen. Three truckloads of compost and soil were delivered yesterday, and today we are beginning to put together the beds
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