Community gardens on hold
When Mary Hardy sits on the front porch of her home on Cambridge Avenue, she sees a dove-shaped memorial to a young man who was shot in broad daylight last October.
Just a couple of houses down, she sees the spot on the street where she watched helplessly as another young man lay mortally wounded with a gunshot wound to the gut two months earlier.
Right next door to Hardy's home is a vacant city-owned lot.
Hardy and other members of the Cambridge Avenue Block Club 2 want to transform that ugly plot of barren land into a community garden where they can grow flowers and vegetables -- a small step toward taking back their neighborhood.
But the city won't let them.
"I've been washing up blood," said Hardy, who began making plans for her community garden after last year's violence on her street. "Why can't we wash up lettuce and tomatoes and collard greens?"
The lot on Cambridge is one of 37 vacant city-owned lots where block clubs and other community groups are eager to start community gardens this spring but are being put on hold because City Hall has not given them permission to dig yet. For some block clubs, this spring marks the third growing season they've had to wait to get the go-ahead from the city.
With nearly 16,000 vacant lots in the city and no clear plan on what to do with them, Hardy and other community gardeners across the city are puzzled, frustrated and incensed that anyone would get in the way of their efforts to bring a little beauty to their neighborhoods.
For almost two decades now, community gardens have been established through an agreement with Grassroots Gardens of Buffalo, a private nonprofit organization. It was founded in 1992 by the late businessman J. Milton Zeckhauser, who wanted community groups to be able to start green spaces in the city's growing multitude of vacant lots.
"Our whole purpose is to support folks in the community that want to start and maintain community gardens," explained Susannah Barton, executive director of Grassroots Gardens.
Grassroots Gardens takes on the legal responsibility for the community gardens by putting the city-owned vacant lots on a master lease that the organization has with the city.
The organization then provides $1 million in liability insurance -- something the city requires for anyone wanting to do pretty much anything on a city-owned vacant lot. Grassroots Gardens also provides the same support for privately owned vacant property.
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