As many of you know, the city of Annapolis has sold the old Recreation and Parks<\/p>\n
property where Grow Annapolis created and maintained our first community<\/p>\n
garden, called the \u201cCity Dock Garden.\u201d\u00a0 Since the site was purchased by a<\/p>\n
developer to build luxury condominiums, the future of the garden is bleak indeed<\/p>\n
and applications can no longer be accepted for City Dock. Although this decision<\/p>\n
was a huge blow to all of us at Grow Annapolis, the good news is that Annapolis<\/p>\n
City Manager, Thomas Andrews, agreed to help us find a replacement site.<\/p>\n
Of all the sites proposed, the one that popped out as having the most potential is<\/p>\n
the lot adjacent to the Eastport Fire Station. This 35 by 120 ft. tract of land is<\/p>\n
partially shaded by tall trees but more than half open to full sun. Fire Chief David<\/p>\n
Stokes and Station Captain Janet Wiseman have both welcomed our interest in<\/p>\n
using the property for gardens. A soil test for lead came back negative and so we<\/p>\n
are now in the planning stages for the new community garden!<\/p>\n
It is our hope that the new Eastport Fire Station community gardens will be up<\/p>\n
and running by late spring of this year. We hope to host a work party to build the<\/p>\n
raised beds sometime in late April. You may fill out an application for the site and<\/p>\n
be in line to get a plot once it is ready.\u00a0 If you are interested in helping to make<\/p>\n
these goals a reality, please contact board members Anne Van Allen, Cathy<\/p>\n
Umphrey or Dalyn Huntley. In the meantime, keep your fingers crossed that this<\/p>\n
location will soon be our new downtown home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As many of you know, the city of Annapolis has sold the old Recreation and Parks property where Grow Annapolis created and maintained our first community garden, called the \u201cCity Dock Garden.\u201d\u00a0 Since the site was purchased by a developer to build luxury condominiums, the future of the garden is bleak indeed and applications can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growannapolis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}