Cleveland to get gardens

Well, it was a long time coming, but finally I recieved a list of the grantees for reimagining Cleveland. The press release dated November 17 was not posted at the time or the city's website is too convoluted to allow finding it, but here it is: City Anounces 58 ReImagining Cleveland Grant Program Recipients [1].

When Marc Lefkowitz posted this at GCBL.ORG [2], I asked him for the list. "Well, there is no official release yet", he said. Now there is. The excel data sheet is  attached with the funding amounts and locations and I have been able to map a few of them . 

Also of note regarding updating web info - is it coincidence that after someone pointed out that Cleveland Metroparks online board meeting minutes were antique, 6 months of them were rapidly posted to their website? I do wonder sometimes when our regional government entities will use the internet in a timely fashion. But that is an aside.

So happy holidays, Cleveland - stuff is about to be growing in our midst. Better than a speeding medcon, faster than a huge outlay of infrastructure on the lakefront... 58 small initiatives by locals. Maybe there is one in your neighborhood. Maybe, come spring, you can begin to report on one or two. I hope to get out to some of these locations for before pictures.

2 orchards, 3 vineyards, 12 market gardens, 13 community gardens, 2 stormwater projects, 2 phytoremediation projects, parking lot projects, native plantings, pocket parks and sideyard expansions... Wohoo! Let's hope this turns out to be a good investment of this $500,000 in State of Ohio Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funds. Cleveland could look a lot greener if it works.

Meanwhile, from Maurice Small [3] - news from Sandusky: