Now that spring is in the air & the bulbs are coming up, it is time once again for the Trinidad-Ivy City Community Garden Club to take up our shovels and make an appearance on the corner.
We did a little treebox repair project last weekend before kicking off the public season for the year. Our bricklined treeboxes on Montello endured a bit of fall/winter abuse.
We decided to undertake this particular task before opening the public season because we want to move forward and welcome new members with the strong message that we don't just want to do one time planting projects. We want to keep returning to the scene of the crime to maintain what we have created.
We believe that building a strong community is about following through & being there for the long run.
Occasional clean-ups are a great thing, don't get us wrong, but isolated events are...um, isolated. They each become just a flash in the pan.
So, while planting treeboxes is fun & the flowers look much better than the debris that once occupied the space, the planting of treeboxes is not our end goal.
We hope that by getting neighbors our out on the street & talking & working together, that maybe a little community building can happen along the way.
And just maybe, if enough of us are out there on a regular basis, we can get to know our neighbors a little better & strive to work together to make Trinidad the best community it can be.
Also, check out a reference to this post in the blog Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space.
3 comments:
Bring the Spring! The Crocuses and whatnot I planted in front of my house in the fall are comming up nicely. I think I'm going to put some annuals in this weekend if it doesn't rain. Hopefully the schedule will even allow joining in w/ garden club activities this year...
I am not officially in Trinidad but live near H street--is there an H street garden club or does the trinidad garden club also invite near H street members?
H Street does not have a garden club (to the best of my knowledge). You are welcome to come plant with the Trinidad-Ivy City Community Garden Club, but the club's planting activities are confined to the Trinidad & Ivy City neighborhoods (right now, everything we do is in Trinidad).
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