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Community Garden Locations for 2008

Cole Manor - 315 S. Burnett Rd.
This garden is shared by building residents and will include a flower garden around their front flag pole.


Hugh Taylor Apartments - 1707 E. High Street.
The garden committee enjoys beautification projects for their building which includes two patios and a large island bed in the parking area as well as curbside appeal highlights.


Springfield Regional Medical Center - 1343 N. Fountain Ave.
The rehabilitation unit will be designing their patios with a combination of container and bedding plants.


Grace Lutheran Church - 1801 St. Paris Pike.
Church volunteers raise a large vegetable and flower plot. Their harvest proceeds benefit the St. John’s Food Pantry.


Grayhill Home - 220 Montgomery Ave.
This is another community garden shared by residents which includes vegetable plots and beautification projects for the building.


Hannah House - 1027 W. High Street.
This location is a part of the Childrens Rescue Center, Inc. which works with single mothers and their children who are homeless or in crisis. Five newly constructed raised beds will be shared for vegetable gardening.


Inside/Out - 501 S. Wittenberg Ave.
Children in the program will enjoy both a vegetable garden this year as well as a new planting in the courtyard for a butterfly garden.


McKinley Hall - 1101 E. High Street.
The men’s residential program will be planting a vegetable plot to supplement their food budget.


Miami Valley Child Development Centers, Inc. - 1450 S. Yellow Springs St.
With the introduction of year round programming, the head start services here will introduce a raised bed vegetable garden for the children and families in the play yard and a sunflower/bird and butterfly plot outside the play area.


MRDD-TAC - 110 W. Lefflel Ln.
This garden has unique raised beds in an asphalt garden and are gardeners here are able to enjoy a mixture of plantings including vegetables, herbs, a butterfly garden and a fall harvest garden.


Oakwood Village - 1500 Villa Rd.
Gardeners here share several raised beds, table gardens and container gardens to beautify their courtyard and provide fresh veggies and herbs.


On the Rise - 4177 Dialton Rd.
Children in the program raise vegetables and herbs that are sold at a local farm market. They also learn to preserve what they grow and regularly share meals from the garden.


Parents on the Rise - 1918 Mechanicsburg Rd.
(Oesterlen Services for Youth) Parents of children in the On the Rise program will share a vegetable garden at the Oesterlen site.


Project Woman - 1316 E. High Street
Residents and Children living at Chrysalis Manor will be sharing raised beds for vegetables. A second garden will be established at the emergency shelter, (private site).


South Yellow Springs Street/Pleasant Street
This garden will be planted and maintained by youth from the Clark County Juvenile Court Diversion Program.


Sherman Court Apartments - 526 N. Murray Street.
Raised bed vegetable plots are planted and maintained by children in the recreation program.


Tubman Towers - 17 Johnson Street
The garden committee currently shares several raised beds and will benefit from the addition of a new raised bed this year.


Wings - 1110 W. Perrin Street
Children in the Wings Program have shared a site with Habitat for Humanity.


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