Community garden a reality

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Hurry, there is not much time. Only a few plots left and they are going fast. That is the reality around a very popular project called the Plots to Plates Organic Garden, the logo and name coming from the effort of the naming contest award winner, Emily Sizemore. She is a second-grader at Woodbrook Elementary and she edged out 300 creative contestants to earn the right for her logo to appear on a sign at the entrance of our very own community garden. Final graphic design was provided by Melinda Hamilton.

This will be the first year all 99 plots are ready for claiming for just $10 a year by anyone living in Carmel or an employee of the Carmel Clay School Corp. The land, water access and other amenities were graciously donated by the Carmel Schools when an old building was recently razed. A seven-person committee has been working on the project for the last year-and-a-half. There is no official Chair (that is how they work together so nicely) because as MaryEllen St. Angelo so nicely put it, “We don’t need a President because everyone has unique skills and it has been a labor of love. We all are working together to bring this gift to the community.”

MaryEllen is joined by other Core Committee Members, Chris Cruzan, Margot Gibson, Linda Hynes, B.J. Massa, Sandie McLaren and Marcia Roberts. If you know any of these people, you should stop what you are doing and send them a note of gratitude.

Not only will there be 99 plots, each 4-feet-by-15-feet, there also will be a community gathering space open to anyone regardless of a green thumb or not. Carmel High School junior Ema Beeler decided to make her Girl Scout Gold Award all about producing a stage and patio area for the space. She has completed plans and is now in the process of raising the $6,000 needed to finish. To make any kind of donation, go to www.CCSgreenteam.org and click on the garden tab. A community garden was just a dream some 18 months ago. Now it is as real as the beans and squash which will soon sprout from the ground. Thanks for the dreamers among us.


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