Let’s make a garden.

Posted by Julia Eddy | March 10th, 2010

It’s almost spring time – and we are so ready to get gardening! Fortunately, City Blossoms has an exciting new project in the works.

There’s a plot of vacant land on Marion Street, NW — located just behind Bread for the City, between P and Q and 6th and 7th streets, less than a block away from the Kennedy Recreation Center — that will soon be transformed into an intergenerational community garden with educational opportunities for children, youth and adults. (See the beautiful artists’ rendering below.)

And City Blossoms needs our help to make that transformation happen! So on Saturday March 20th at 11AM, the DC Food For All will host a volunteer Garden Gang day. As inspired by the recent NYT profile of “crop mobs,” we’re looking for 15-20 volunteers to help prepare the site for construction and the growing season ahead. We’ll spend a few hours working together on things like:

• sheet mulching!
• leveling!
• pulling out very very stubborn old weeds!
• setting up a fence!
• picking up trash!!
• and some planting!

So we need you — as well as any tools (large shovels, rakes, pick axes, large forks) that you may be able to provide for the afternoon.

RSVP to DCFoodForAll@gmail.com. Let’s get gardening!

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