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Ovid Community Garden Is Growing Good News!

The Ovid Community Garden, located just north of South Seneca Central School in Ovid, is entering its fourth gardening season.

Nineteen of our twenty-one raised beds have been rented to fifteen different individual gardeners or groups for the 2020 gardening season. We have several youth gardeners this year including an after-school garden club from South Seneca, a girl scout troop from Ovid and a SSCS high schooler. If you’re interested in renting a raised bed for $10 for the 2020 gardening year, please contact Maggie Passmore at 412-638-4949.

We had several exciting garden projects completed in 2019. One of our gardeners, Steve Gamble, designed and built a brick walkway for our flower garden. A generous community member, who wishes to remain anonymous, donated the funds to install a permanent shade arbor over our seating area in a corner of the flower garden. Ben Frey, of Frey Excavating, built the shade arbor. The Ovid-Willard Lions Club, led by Harold Bush, designed and built a roofed information kiosk with a bulletin board and shelving to offer excess garden produce as a small “free farm stand”. The Ovid Girl Scouts, led by Jamie VanGalio, built a sandwich sign to advertise when free veggies are available at our farm stand. The STEPs Project (Seneca Towns Engaging People in Solutions) provided funding for peat moss, compost, and other essentials. A generous community member donated $100!

We assisted the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) to add three additional raised beds in a separate fenced area on the west end of the garden. They raised butternut squash and watermelons for their “Farm to Table” project at SSCS. CCE will be using these beds again in 2020.

In 2020, we hope to work with the SSCS Art Club to design a mural for the back side of the kiosk, and paint a permanent “Ovid Community Sign” sign on the front of the kiosk. We will be working on ways to offer more free veggies to the community on the kiosk shelves as a “free farm stand”. We also plan on adding more perennials to the flower garden, and moving the strawberries to a larger bed that is more accessible.

We will be having a winter meeting for Ovid Community Gardeners at the Edith B. Ford Memorial Library on February 29th from 10-noon. Please attend if you are interested in gardening with us.