Atlanta Community Gardening
My family lives in East Atlanta, and my husband works in Inman Park. The other day we were taking a shortcut from home to his office to meet him for lunch, and my kids and I came across an oasis in Reynoldstown: The R-Town Garden.
Wannabe gardener that I am, I had to pull over and check out their fledgling plots. Very cool! I love the idea of a community coming together, putting aside a greenspace for practical purposes, and allowing residents to get closer to actual growing things. Here in the mass of concrete and glass that is Atlanta, I think we often lose sight of the natural and this seems like a great way to reconnect and unwind.
Curious about the community garden phenomenon, I did a little snooping around and found a neat site by the Atlanta Community Food Bank. They support community gardens and much more, including a Hunger Walk 5/10K, and an organic market. And much to my delight, I found at the Atlanta Community Gardens Coalition, that there is a community garden in the works for East Atlanta’s Brownwood Park!
that sign is SO reynoldstown….
“SO Reynoldstown?” Is that good or bad?
all good :-))
i love living in rtown. big ups to keely and the rtown garden crew for getting this project off the ground licketysplit. join the mailing list: RTownGarden@yahoogroups.com.
watch out for more enviroprojects.. some of us sopo kids live in the n’hood and trees atlanta is moving in.
so nice to see that others appreciate reynoldstown. i rented in virginia highlands for years thinking it was the only “cultured” and beautiful oasis inside the concrete jungle. what was i thinking while i was going broke? now i just love crossing the tracks and coming through the krog street tunnel. reynoldstown really is a neighborhood on the rise. so much urban renewal is just people removal and tree removal. it doesn’t have to be that way! community gardens are a beautiful, peaceful and natural way to anchor a blended community. we all gotta eat our vegetables! up with urban farmers.
naima, you are so right. the krog street tunnel is one of my favorite places in all of atlanta. i too rented in vahi when i moved to atlanta before releasing that southeast was the way to go. and honestly you are going to have to drag me kicking and screaming out of east atlanta/ormewood.
So glad to get some positive comments on the hood. Rachael, love that you used SoPo. Haven’t heard that one in a while. . . makes me think it would be fun to do a post about Atlanta-specific acronyms and terminology, etc.