Garden Clean-up

 24-April-2023

  On Saturday-22-April the Bogota Environmental Commission, Bogota Beautiful, and the Bogota Green Team held and Earth Day clean-up of the Bogota Community Garden. Using a United States Department of Agriculture, the Borough was able to secure funding to replace the existing planting beds.  Many of the frames around the beds are original to the garden since opening in June of 2016. Since then, another four beds were added for a total of 20 planter boxes. 

  Early in the morning Volunteers from the Bogota Recuse Squad, while members of the Community Garden started do build the new frames. The planting boxes will be a bit taller, wider, and longer for a better growing bed. In the afternoon more volunteers, recruited by Bogota Beautiful, arrived. Once that checked in with Ms. Isabel Bustamante a small introduction was giving. This was led by Ms. Danielle Fede who explained the goal for the afternoon.  The Ms. Fede assigned jobs that needed to be done. These ranged from clearing weeds and old growth, aerating the soil of planting boxes as the new frames were secure, and a general cleaning both inside and outside the entire garden. Volunteers ranged from entire Families coming to help with individual's and couples joining in. A number of people came in from outside Bogota to be a part of about 30 volunteers to be a part of this Earth Day Event.

   While the entire project was not completed in one day, a good portion of work was done. Over the next few weeks, the remainder of the work will be finished to open the garden in May for the 2023 growing season. Planters are still available for rental for this summer. 

  For more information on volunteer to help finish the clean-up, or to apply for a planting bed please visit their website at:  https://www.bogotaonline.org/community-garden

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