Welcome to the new website for the Newark Street Community Garden Association (NSCGA)!
Dear NSCGA Members,
There will be 3 projects started at the Newark Street Park in coming weeks. The DC Department of Recreation (DC DPR) in partnership with DC Office of Public Education/Facilities Modernization ( DC Partners for the Revitalization of Education Projects - DCPEP) will begin construction of the Dog Exercise Area (DEA) on the western border of the garden site. The plans for the DEA are posted on the tennis court fence.
DC DPR has agreed to provide the garden site with a fence on our western border. The fence will be attractive and will protect those garden plots on the side nearest to the future DEA. DPR has also agreed to, and the ANC unanimously passed a resolution (ANC 3C Resolution No. 2009-035) at the regularly scheduled ANC 3C meeting on November 16, 2009, requesting, a fence at our lower garden area at the woods edge, behind the compost area. This fence will go from the tennis courts to the police wall. It will deter the deer that approach from the wooded area into the gardens. It will also discourage illegal dumping in the woods.
DC DPR will repair/renovate our delivery site (where we have chips dumped) with grade leveling and DPR will make the area more secure for delivery trucks with paving stone. We will for the short term not be able to dump there. We ask that all members please keep your paths weeded and as soon as wood chip deliveries restart, you will be expected to again keep your paths chipped. We will, as soon as the site is ready, order leaf mulch for the membership. You will receive a notice when to expect the leaf mulch delivery.
Washington Landscape has entered into an agreement with the NSCGA to rebuild our compost area at no cost to the NSCGA. In exchange they will twice a year dump green waste material from their landscape clients. This allows them to reduce their carbon footprint and to assist in keeping our environment a little greener and a little cleaner by not using as much fuel when transporting to their home offices green waste material. They are a “green” company and no material with chemicals used on landscapes will be dumped. The new, larger bins will be of a size to accommodate our material and their twice a year requirements. They will also turn our material as needed. This is a promising solution to our huge composting needs and we welcome Washington Landscapes, LLC to our garden community.
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We recognize that the peace we have come to enjoy and the melodic sound of chirping birds and Cathedral bells will be challenged but we are sure that our membership will accept with grace the inconvenience that construction will bring to the park.
Best wishes,
Lew
To see what’s new, check our Announcements page!
Regrettably, we cannot accept anymore applicants for our waiting list. The demand is greater than the number of plots we have available at this time.
Please check back after April 1 for more information. We are sorry that we have a limited number of openings and cannot asssign a plot to everyone who wants to garden.
If you have applied for membership previously, you are still on our waiting list. Please do not reapply. Your name will be carried over to the 2010 garden season and a plot will be assigned in the order that we received your application. Thank you for your interest in the Newark Street Community Garden Association. We will make every attempt possible to assign a garden plot to those currently on the waiting list as soon as a plot becomes available.
Our website is still under construction so check back now and then to see what’s new. Thanks for your patience.
