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Apartment dwellers go green?
Tue, Apr 5th, 2011
Posted in Pine Island Home & Garden
Posted in Pine Island Home & Garden
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Apartment dwellers and others who don’t own property still will get to enjoy the pleasures of gardening, thanks to a unanimous decision last week by the Park Board.
Plots to plant, tend and harvest small crops – whether ground cover, flowers or vegetables – will be located in Slatterly Park, in southeast Rochester; Eastside Pioneers neighborhood (behind the left-field wall of Mayo Park); and at Kings Run Park, in the Cimarron neighborhood.
The Rochester Area Foundation is modeling the new gardens after one set up last year in Kutzky Park.
A fourth garden, already established on city-owned land along Marion Road near the Park Lane neighborhood, was approved contingent on the neighborhood association’s aligning itself with RNeighbors or the Rochester Area Foundation.
“You all ought to be commended for coming forward and making this happen,” board member Larry Mortensen said.
Previous city policy forbade community gardens in public parks. Gardens on vacant, city-owned lots, those left over from road projects and tax-forfeiture properties were permitted. The ban was intended to preserve play areas and protect parks if a garden was left to decay. But by linking the gardens to responsible organizations – such as RNeighbors or the Foundation – with long histories, the board decided healthy oversight was more likely.
A $30 rental fee will be charged for each plot measuring 8 by 10 feet. Gardening tools and water will be provided. However, according to Mortensen, “it’s an experiment,” and so the rental fee will be deferred until the second year.
A total of 100 plots will be available – 36 at Slatterly Park, 32 at Mayo Field and 32 at Kings Run – starting May 15. Plots must be weeded and cleared by May 30, and the season will run through Oct. 31.
Plots to plant, tend and harvest small crops – whether ground cover, flowers or vegetables – will be located in Slatterly Park, in southeast Rochester; Eastside Pioneers neighborhood (behind the left-field wall of Mayo Park); and at Kings Run Park, in the Cimarron neighborhood.
The Rochester Area Foundation is modeling the new gardens after one set up last year in Kutzky Park.
A fourth garden, already established on city-owned land along Marion Road near the Park Lane neighborhood, was approved contingent on the neighborhood association’s aligning itself with RNeighbors or the Rochester Area Foundation.
“You all ought to be commended for coming forward and making this happen,” board member Larry Mortensen said.
Previous city policy forbade community gardens in public parks. Gardens on vacant, city-owned lots, those left over from road projects and tax-forfeiture properties were permitted. The ban was intended to preserve play areas and protect parks if a garden was left to decay. But by linking the gardens to responsible organizations – such as RNeighbors or the Foundation – with long histories, the board decided healthy oversight was more likely.
A $30 rental fee will be charged for each plot measuring 8 by 10 feet. Gardening tools and water will be provided. However, according to Mortensen, “it’s an experiment,” and so the rental fee will be deferred until the second year.
A total of 100 plots will be available – 36 at Slatterly Park, 32 at Mayo Field and 32 at Kings Run – starting May 15. Plots must be weeded and cleared by May 30, and the season will run through Oct. 31.
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