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You might remember me writing now and then on the Ron Mandella Community Garden in Sacramento, which was on state land and was slated for development. We were able to get equal amount of land at 2 locations, site one (2/3 of the amount of land that was lost) was opened a few blocks away about 4 years ago, and site two (1/3 of the original site) was saved in place but the soil had to be cleaned. (Cal EPA grant to remove 24" of soil from the whole site - about $450,000 worth of soil testing, removing and replacing the soil due to contaminents) Saturday june 9th 10-2pm at 14th and Q street in downtown Sacramento we will have the grand opening of the Fremont Community Garden (formerly knows as the ron mandella site) .. a side note on this garden ... you might recall the assignation attempt of past president Gerald Ford on the grounds of the California State Capital, which is 2 blocks north of this garden.. well as it turns out.. Lynette "squeaky" Fromme (a past charles mansion follower) made that attempt, which we all know failed.. but what you probably don't know is that she was a community gardener at the Mandella garden (probably the most infamous com. Gardener)...that was before I was involved with that garden The new garden was completely redone...down to 24" below ground and then donated to the city parks dept. Its fenced high density garden has 52 plots, and is a joint use with 2 bocce ball courts (we could not clean the soil near the roots of old walnut trees - so we made the courts), fruit and citrus trees and 4 ADA raised beds, with all pathways being decomposed granite. Come celebrate with us at this milestone event. Look me up in the ACGA tent and I will be glad to give you a tour! Bill Maynard ACGA vice president , Sacramento For more info please contact me at sacgc at ulink.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070606/1895b926/attachment.html
