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A Community Garden for Broadway!

Update - August 4, 2009.  The Broadway Victory Garden can only be considered a huge success!  All but a few plots have been rented, we've received publicity in the newspapers, in Neighborhood News, and many other publications!  Check out these latest photos (click on each photo for a larger image)

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Update - June 8, 2009.  The Rock Island Argus ran a great article on the garden on Sunday, June 7th.  Click Here to read the entire article.

Update - May 6, 2009.  The garden plots in the new Victory Garden at 835 20th Street have been nearly doubled in size – at no extra cost. Now a plot measures 10 x 10 feet at the same cost of $20 for Broadway residents.  But they are going fast, so reserve yours now for planting beginning May 16.    There are also FREE 3 x 3 foot plots in a children’s area so kids can learn to garden.  There will be a contest to name that garden.

The lot will be tilled this weekend (May 9-10) unless it rains.   Neighbor contributions include front and rear gates being made by Lendol Calder.  Bill Rowand is working with UBC to have a shed donated and Stacey Replinger has made decorative designs for the shed that evoke the 1930 and 1940s.  There are also FREE seeds for the garden being offered by Robbie and Deb Palm who live on 35th Street. 

Contact Deb Kuntzi, 786-3927 or ltmb1800@sbcglobal.net  

Update - April 29, 2009.  This Saturday, May 2nd, we will have a sign-up for plots and will accept money then, too. There will be 40 plots at 11.5 x 5.5, at a cost of $20 per plot for Broadway residents and $25 for non residents.  Of course, residents have priority.  Roto-tilling will also be done Saturday, and we hope to be able to begin planting by mid-May.

Some neighbors have already volunteered for specific tasks.   Anthony Heddelsten, our new neighbor at 541 23rd Street, is an environmental engineer and is in the process of making the final drawings. Stacy Replinger of 806 22nd Street has offered to do the signage.

Also needed is a wood shed that can be equipped with gutters for a rain barrel and/or an old wooden wagon to hold the water supply. If we get an old wagon we can put a water tank in it and have Stacy put our sign on the wagon. This first year is going to be an expensive one, Broadway is budgeting $1000 and Lisa Ahern from Economic Growth is writing a grant for another $1000 that would help tremendously.   For more info, contact Deb Kuntzi at 786-3927.

Update -  April 26, 2009.  On Saturday, April 25th, the first work was done on the Broadway Victory Garden at 835 20th Street, as residents cut up the sod from the vacant lot in preparation for the new garden.