Kennett Community Garden offers free garden plots at

Anson B. Nixon Park

Did you always want to have a vegetable garden but didn’t have the space or know-how? Interested individuals and families are invited to plant a garden of your own and find your green thumb at the Kennett Community Garden in the Anson B Nixon Park in Kennett Square.

Located within a 7 foot deer exclusion fence near the children’s playground, 39 plots of 3’ x 10’ raised beds are available for interested gardeners at no charge.

The mission of the Kennett Community Garden is to create a garden that will involve people of diverse backgrounds, cultures and generations. Easily accessible to the community, gardeners will produce nutritious organic food, develop friendships and relationships, create opportunities for recreation and exercise, and generate community pride. The idea "seeds" for this garden were "planted" by staff and students at KennettMiddle School who read Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman, the 2008 Book-One School reading project.

 

Organizers include Dick Menn of Community Gardens of Chester County who assisted in the garden design; Suzanne Mertz, Kennett Middle School Title I Reading Specialist; students, teachers and PTO of the Kennett Middle School, Kennett Consolidated District; Kennett Area Park Authority; La Comunidad Hispana; and 4-H Club of Chester County – Penn State Extension.  The Kennett Middle School PTO, the American Mushroom Institute, Kaolin Mushroom Farms and Select Soils provided financial and product support to get the raised beds in the ground.

The beds, including handicapped accessible, will be developed on a first come, first served basis. Once the gardens are assigned and ready to plant, participating gardeners will supply planting materials including seeds, plants, organic fertilizer and herbicides, and tools. The gardeners will form a governing association and share communal responsibilities.

For further information, please leave a message at 610-444-1416.

http://www.gardenscc.org/