The Charlotte Jewish News - August 2015 - Page 19
Shalom Park Garden Selects Site and Designer
By Mike Amholt
A site has been seleeted for
Shalom Park Community Garden,
and a designer has been ehosen
for the projeet.
Bobbie Mabe of Charlotte was
seleeted from among three land-
seape designers who submitted
plans for the garden, whieh is
funded by a grant that’s part of
The Shalom Park Environmental
Initiative.
The garden will be built in the
grassy area to the right of the en-
tranee to Levine-Skint Library.
Mabe is the owner of Growth
Through Gardening, a eompany
that speeializes in hortieultural
therapy. For the past two years she
worked as the sehool gardener at
Garinger High Sehool where she
developed an urban farm, a sehool
garden, and developed a eurrieu-
lum that erossed gardening aetiv-
ities with a speetrum of traditional
elassroom subjeets.
Mabe said she went to Garinger
to help students that seemed for
gotten. “The ehange has been un
believable,” she said. “I was
surprised by the impaet gardening
has on learning.”
Edueation will be the primary
purpose of the eommunity garden
as well, said Bette Andrews,
ehairwoman of the Shalom Park
Environmental Initiative. “Onee
the garden is up and running it
will beeome a hub for Jewish and
environmental learning for all
ages to raise awareness of our ob
ligation to preserve the planet.”
Garden programming will
reaeh out to people of all ages
throughout the Jewish eommu
nity, ineluding those with disabil
ities.
Andrews said she is thrilled
with the strides that have been
made in few short months in the
initiative to reduee the park’s ear-
bon footprint. “We have devel
“The wisdom
of the wise
and the
experience of
the ages are
perpetuated hy
quotations.”
-Benjamin Disraeli
Mabe’s design ineludes a vari
ety of ornamental plants, trellises,
raised beds for growing vegeta
bles, seating, and work spaees. It
also features plants with biblieal
signifieanee in Jewish festivals.
Construetion is seheduled to
begin in late August. ^
SHALOM GREEN
Committee members at the site of the future Shalom Park Community
Garden. Left to right: Louise Frumkin, Pamela Bernstein, Candice
Serbin, (committee chair), Mike Arnholt, Yonatan Thull, and garden de
signer Bobbie Mabe.
oped a logo and brand, Shalom
Green, whieh will soon be visible
aeross Shalom Park and on soeial
media. The garden is really eom-
ing together. It’s amazing what a
group of truly eommitted eommu
nity members ean aehieve in a
short amount of time.”
Adult volunteers and students
will maintain and sustain the gar
den while learning Jewish values
and providing fresh produee in
support of Jewish Family Serviees
and other Charlotte food banks.
Want to help?
We need adult and teen volunteers to help
build the garden. The work will include:
*Building beds
*Laying mulch
*Building borders
*Planting trees and shrubs
*Filling raised beds
*Pianting raised beds
*Staining wood
*Maintaining the garden
If you can help, e-mail Yonatan Thull at
catalyst.ahelpinghand@gmail.com or caii
704-644-9026.
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