Living in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood or at the Fraternity houses over
the summer?
Want to do some outdoor community service?
Interested in gardening or just being near beautiful flowers?
Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association is expanding their 5th St Historic
Gardens in 2006 to the east side of I-35W. They have identified two
"bumpout" areas on 5th St. between 10th and 11th St. that they would like
to transform into gardens. The areas are near Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta
Gamma.
This garden program relies on volunteers. There is a master gardener in
the M-H neighborhood that heads up the group and a Gardening Group that
volunteers to maintain the existing gardens in M-H. The plants are donated
and also purchased with Gardening Group funds.
They need willing volunteers to help plant and maintain the new proposed
gardens throughout the summer. The current gardens are maintained by
people signing up for a week at a time. A similar system would be used for
the new gardens. The Gardening group will help teach you on what is needed
to maintain the gardens. The most important thing will be watering! They
arrange to use water from the neighborhood houses to make it easy.
Planting of the gardens is planned for mid to late May. The weekly
maintenance would start after the gardens are planted.
Want to help? Contact Lorna Fox (lfox1@hallmark.com) or respond back to
mgap@umngreekalumni.com by 4/28.
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