Final Design

Here's the final design, approved at the August Parks Commission meeting.

COMMUNITY GARDEN WORK PARTY IN CALAHAN PARK!

COMMUNITY GARDEN WORK PARTY IN CALAHAN PARK!

Come out and support local food production in public spaces!  The Calahan Park Community Garden Organizing Committee and Burlington Area Community Gardens (BACG) invite you to participate in a work day to establish a garden on the slope above the tennis courts on October 10, 2010.   We’ve been working on this garden idea for almost a year, it’s been approved by the Parks Commission, and we’re ready to roll up our sleeves and make a garden.  

This garden represents the efforts of park neighbors to promote local food and community gardening.  The garden will be part of Burlington Area Community Gardens, a city program administered through the Department of Parks and Recreation.  It will add 32 new plots to the 360 plots in available in Burlington, and fill a long-standing need for more gardening space in the South End.   It will provide opportunities for community involvement, diversify uses of the park, and because it is located along a major entrance road to the city, it will stand visible as a model of Burlington’s commitment to sustainability and neighborhood participation. 

On October 10th, we will be participating in the climate change organization 350.org’s Global Work Party, joining 2,500 groups in over 150 countries in doing local projects  In the words of Bill McKibben, the organization’s founder, the goal of the day is not to solve the climate crisis one project at a time, but to send a message to our political leaders: “if we can get to work, you can get to work too--on the legislation and the treaties that will make all our work easier in the long run.”  

WHEN:  

Please join us Sunday October 10th, between 9am and 3pm.  

WHERE:  

The garden site is in Calahan Park, on the eastern side, between the tennis courts and Shelburne Rd.   Children are welcome. 

BRING:  

Please bring the following items, if you have them:

Gloves

Tools:  hammer, shovel, rake

5-gallon buckets

Water for yourself, lunch if staying the whole day

PROVIDED:

Snacks

Wheelbarrows (if it is easy, you can bring yours, too)

Post-hole diggers

Some shovels, rakes, etc.  

Mallets

Supplies

PLEASE REGISTER: 

If you register at 350.org, you will receive updates and reminders about the event, and you will demonstrate your support for 350.org’s Global Work Party initiative.  

RAIN PLAN:

Please check our web — calahangarden.blogspot.com —  for announcement of rain cancellation. 

CITY MARKET WORKER HOURS:  

You can receive City Market worker hours for participating in this event!!!  (You need to be a member worker at City Market prior to the event.  Contact Leila Cosgrove at City Market with questions).  

FOR MORE INFO: 

Contact Lisa Coven of Parks & Recreation:   LCoven@ci.burlington.vt.us, 

Susan Munkres susan.munkres@gmail.com

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN GARDENING IN CALAHAN PARK: 

Contact Lisa Coven of Parks & Recreation to be mailed registration information in early 2011.  The garden will open in May of 2011.