Thanks to permaculture twitterer Leonard Barrett I recently learned about a nifty public gardening project just across the JP/Brookline border: the 200 foot garden. Leonard is from Portland, OR which makes it funny that he was my info source for this project that I bike within a few hundred feet of multiple times per week. I guess the internet is good for something.
I went for a peek at the garden the other day, and I liked what I saw. It’s a great location — in the five or so minutes I spent looking around, plenty of folks walked by. Patrick and Tracy have great signs explaining what the project’s about. Things were nice and tidy for this time of year, too, with just a bit of grass peeking through the mulch.
I’ll be interested to track the progress of this project, and hope there’ll be more work days coming up in which to meet Patrick, Tracy, and the others involved.
Thanks for the mention. I wish I’d seen this before tonight’s work event. We’ll definitely have more. The Scarlet Runner beans are blooming now, and I think we’ll have cucumbers in about two weeks (fingers crossed). We’ve had a lot of terrific comments from neighborhood residents on the project.
Comment by Patrick — August 19, 2009 @ 9:07 pm