Grow Annapolis Urges Support for Community Garden
The Annapolis City Council heard arguments against the project on Monday night.
A community garden proposed for Kingsport Park is facing some push-back. On Wednesday, Joel Bunker, executive director of Grow Annapolis—a nonprofit promoting and sustaining urban agriculture—posted a statement on the organization's Facebook page encouraging friends of the group to express their support for the project to the Annapolis City Council. "What you should know is that the city may be pulling back support from the Annapolis Community Garden Project off Bywater Rd.," Bunker wrote in the statement. "This is due to the pressure of few loud and influential voices from the Kingsport Development which is adjacent to proposed site." The project—spearheaded by Grow Annapolis—is included in Mayor Josh Cohen's fiscal year 2013 capital …
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Lydia Lopez
9:28 am on Monday, May 21, 2012
Jane, Thank you for recapping my previous comments which were obviously deleted by someone else other than me! Maybe if they just delete it...then they can claim it did not happen... I have sent a letter directly to the Mayor as this forum seems to be bias in favor of GA. I wanted to thank "Annapolis Resident" for his/her posting on the subject. Thank goodness there is some common sense out there… more ›