We’ve been asked about what’s happening at the corner of Needham and Irwin Streets. So your intrepid reporter asked the new owners of the lot, Madilyn and Brent from R-U Computing.
Here’s their response:
As you know it is being cleared off and we have been approached by a team of people, the same people who were wanting to do abandoned gas station community gardens’ , and they are going to use the land to do an ‘open style’ (no fences ) community garden.
The man we mainly talked to is Andre Sullivan. We did discuss the team come to the next SECA meeting as they are hoping to have a lot of community support.
From talking to them we understand the project is done through large corporation sponsorship and apparently a landscaper is doing up a plan to make the whole lot esthetically pleasing.
It appears there is more land there than they have raised beds for so our conversation did turn to some potato / carrot crops in the ground and hopefully some donations of fruit trees and likely some raspberries.
Douglas has also mentioned putting in a bench and hopefully some ‘cool’ garbage cans can be placed there.
The hope is that if people are hungry they will eat but not destroy. As it is a ‘community project’ input and help will be welcome.
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