Community Garden Needs Your Vision

Unity Urban Garden is recruiting serious volunteers who want help take this urban garden to the next level. UUG is a garden, located in the Waltherson Neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore. It is bordered by Walther Blvd., Moravia Ave. and Belair Rd. We began in 2008 with the goals to create a community space, beautify a vacant lot and educate the community about urban gardening. We have 12, 12x6 raised beds, a shade garden/seating area, compost bins and recently installed rain barrels. We eventually would like to add a walking labyrinth.

We are looking for committed volunteers who are excited about urban gardening and have time to invest in helping to manage and develop this garden. We are also in need of construction/building and grant writing skills. As we move into the next phase of this garden, we hope that it will provide a source of food for those in need. We are considering selling garden plots this year so please contact us if you are interested.

To learn more about UUG please check out our blog http://www.unityurbangarden.blogspot.com/ or stop by to 4001 Southern Ave. to see the site.

Our next meetings will be February 26, March 5 and March 19 at 4:30, location TBA. Please email unityurbangarden@gmail.com or call 443-474-9757.

Even though it's still winter, the organizers of UUG are in the process of setting up a meeting to discuss the future of the garden. We, the organizers, are at a crossroads about the goals of the garden, our vision individually and exactly what we would like the bounty to be in the garden. We are generally at this point, bouncing ideas off of each other about partnering with another community garden or changing what we're growing. Right now we're not completely sure, which is where the meeting(s) come in. We haven't posted in quite some time and wanted to get those that read our blog up to speed on what we've been up to. We'll be in touch soon! Happy winter!