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Brainstorming Community Gardens

By Justin Langlois on February 17th, 2009, 12:01 am 2 Comments

Darren, Josh, and I met with some folks from the Sandwich Community Health Centre and Maya from FedUp to start discussing community gardens. The meeting went well, serving as a good starting point to start figuring out what we might be able to do in Sandwich. The SCHC is working on a site on Prince Road, so trying to get something at the riverfront shouldn’t overlap with their efforts.

After the meeting we did a site visit to start brainstorming, taking some photos and making some notes. Josh and I did some sketches and really rough mockups to try to start imaging some potentials for the garden. We liked the idea of circular planters, similar to the Victory Gardens, I’ve posted on previously, so that’s what you’re seeing in the aerial photo above, with the  planters being those 12 small dots near the windmill. Though, the planters would probably vary in size, and in general would  be larger than what’s mocked-up above. 

Ideally, a garden that we initiate can act as a pilot project for the rest of the city. There’s a long way to go with this project, but I wanted to make this first post to mark the start.

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2 Responses to “Brainstorming Community Gardens”

1. Visiting Detroit | Broken City Lab says:

   February 25, 2009 at 1:17 am

   [...] Another look at the park, some great mature trees, and a bit of a jungle-gym on the other side, near the warehouse, outline it, seems like a prime candidate for a sister community garden for our proposed site. [...]

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2. Community Garden Site | Broken City Lab says:

   April 10, 2009 at 8:00 pm

   [...] went out to the site for our proposed community garden to take some photos yesterday. It’s looking fairly likely that this will be the site for our [...]

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