Rogers Park Metra Community Garden

Dear Friend:

Late last year, the Rogers Park Garden Group chose a proposed community garden at the Rogers Park Metra Station as its 2008 Community Garden Project. As you know, the Metra station serves thousands of commuters from Rogers Park, West Ridge, and Evanston each day. The grounds surrounding the station have become overgrown and strewn with trash, reflecting poorly on the station and the community.

Our garden concept is an effort to reverse that by organizing residents and riders to reclaim the space as their own. As part of the effort, we will try to restore a garden planted in 2001 by local landscaper Gary Fuschi. We are also going to try to plant as much new material as we can and create long-term maintenance plans. A website is in process to document our work at http://metragarden.wordpress.com.

RPGG would like to hold a get-to-know you meeting with residents from the neighborhood who might be interested in joining in the planning, planting, and maintenance of the garden. A first meeting for is tentatively scheduled for Sunday March 2 at 10 am or Monday March 3 at 6:30 pm at the Greenleaf Art Center, 1806 W. Greenleaf, depending on when most people might be available.

RSVPs for the first meeting are required so we can be sure we have enough space and refreshments. Interested? Call me at (773) 209-8552 or email me at bwhite_rp@yahoo.com.

Many Thanks!

Brian White
1844 W. Greenleaf Ave

(Please fdistribute this to your networks and to consider this project as a way to build community among your own groups, even it is only by volunteering for a day!)

Brian White