Attached is a package for an East Orange Community Garden with a concept site plan for the city owned property at the end of Walnut Street west of Santiago Creek.
The great team of Consuelo and Jeff Haysom, my neighbors, are part of this project idea too. Jeff is an engineer. He graciously drew up the site plan to scale with the concept layout on walnut and the second overall concept plan for all 4 options for an East Orange Community Garden(sO. We think several will work.
Jeff and Consuelo are master gardens and have rented three community garden plots off Main Street for several years. It is our collective vision and dream to have as many community gardens as possible along the creek. The creek looks abandoned in many places and along the east side of the creek abutting our community needs care and attention. We think the County owns it and rarely cares for it. Both Consuelo and Jeff love teaching folks about how to grow food and would love to manage one of our future east of the 55 freeway gardens. This idea was something they shared with me in 2020.
In the pdf package is the test parcel outlined in red that we considered (4), an aerial photo of it, and community garden concept site plan and layout.
We all know there are so many things to do to implement this (funding, development, management) but we are excited to get this idea on the list of projects for Segment 2.
Second attachment shows three other locations along the creek where community gardens could go. It does show two areas within Grijalva Park which we know needs Parks Planning Commission oversight. We think site 2 and 4 are top on the list to check out and 1 needs to be considered in light of the plans for a skateboard park near this area. All three of us live in the Huntington Community. We think our association dedicated Parcel 17 (Site 3) as part of our development to Orange County Flood control (County) or the city. But don't know.
All three of us will speak further with you at the meeting Wednesday.
Chair and Commission members -
Attached is a package for an East Orange Community Garden with a concept site plan for the city owned property at the end of Walnut Street west of Santiago Creek.
The great team of Consuelo and Jeff Haysom, my neighbors, are part of this project idea too. Jeff is an engineer. He graciously drew up the site plan to scale with the concept layout on walnut and the second overall concept plan for all 4 options for an East Orange Community Garden(sO. We think several will work.
Jeff and Consuelo are master gardens and have rented three community garden plots off Main Street for several years. It is our collective vision and dream to have as many community gardens as possible along the creek. The creek looks abandoned in many places and along the east side of the creek abutting our community needs care and attention. We think the County owns it and rarely cares for it. Both Consuelo and Jeff love teaching folks about how to grow food and would love to manage one of our future east of the 55 freeway gardens. This idea was something they shared with me in 2020.
In the pdf package is the test parcel outlined in red that we considered (4), an aerial photo of it, and community garden concept site plan and layout.
We all know there are so many things to do to implement this (funding, development, management) but we are excited to get this idea on the list of projects for Segment 2.
Second attachment shows three other locations along the creek where community gardens could go. It does show two areas within Grijalva Park which we know needs Parks Planning Commission oversight. We think site 2 and 4 are top on the list to check out and 1 needs to be considered in light of the plans for a skateboard park near this area. All three of us live in the Huntington Community. We think our association dedicated Parcel 17 (Site 3) as part of our development to Orange County Flood control (County) or the city. But don't know.
All three of us will speak further with you at the meeting Wednesday.
Thanks,
Adrienne J. Gladson, AICP
Gladson Consulting
adriennegladson@gmail.com
714 319 9377