Sentences with phrase «of a garden plot»

The site for the 20,000 - square - foot skateboard and in - line skate park, on the northeast corner of the Garden Plots off of West Street, is on land that the Naperville Park District leases from the city.

The Naperville Park District voted 5 - 2 late Thursday to build its first skateboard and in - line skate park on the northeast corner of the Garden Plots off West Street.

Though it appeared during last week's Naperville Park District Board meeting that most board members support putting a skate park at the northeast corner of the Garden Plots, commissioners agreed to postpone a decision.

In August council members voted that the skate park constituted a major change in land use of the Garden Plots.

The site for the proposed skate park on the northeast corner of the Garden Plots off of West Street was approved last month by the Park District.

Portland also ranks in second place for number of garden plots among all the cities we analyzed, so rabbit owners in the city can help fertilize any number of gardens with their pet's manure.

It makes a strong argument for the academic, social and physical benefits of a garden plot.

Not exact matches

The Green Barn, as it's known, is essentially a food - production and education centre, consisting of a 3,000 - square - foot greenhouse, a classroom that doubles as a café, a kitchen and several community garden plots.

«Various themes, plot elements, and characters in the Epic of Gilgamesh have counterparts in the book of Genesis, notably in the stories of the Garden of Eden and Noah's Flood.

1 Kings 21 tells the story of how the evil Queen Jezebel plotted with her husband, King Ahab, to eliminate Naboth and convert his vineyard to a garden for the king's palace.

The approximately one - half acre plot has about 160 varieties of all five domesticated species, and there is a theme to each garden.

My mother had made a recent delivery of some rhubarb from her garden (for some reason our plot seems incapable of growing any), so I would substitute that for the plums.

I have an garden plot with nothing but basil in it — and my freezer's full of pesto (so it was ironic that I had to buy basil for this post, for the purpose of showing how to make the pesto).

We still get a lot of kale from our little allotment garden plot — I can't believe it yields crop until December in Finland!

We look at our garden plots, many of which are buried in snow, and we yearn for the growing season.

Residents of Siberian cities get their food from three main sources: grocery stores (still not as modern as those in the West); city markets, farmers» markets, and street vendors; and their own dacha gardens where they grow fruits and vegetables on little plots of land surrounding the cities.

Attracted to the brightly - colored pods, many species of African birds raided the small garden plots and then flew further inland, spreading the seeds and returning the chiles to the wild.

After years of growing peppers in small plots in the Southwest, we have developed a system that works well because it allows us to grow peppers with most of the other vegetables and herbs in the garden.

Last year we decided to garden in a large community plot but had a lot of issues, tried to plant too many things, and spent way more than we had planned on coping with problems / drought / pests / neighbors etc..

In 2005, I participated in a couple community garden plots with a group of friends.

An authentic traditional Welsh Cottage, on the same plot of land as Ty Unnos with a beautiful garden.

I don't have a lot of experience in gardening, but I did help my mom in our family garden as a child and, three years ago, some friends and I had our own plot in a community garden.

East Location Oakhurst Forest Preserve (1574 Fifth Ave.), Aurora The Park District offers 250 garden plots at the Oakhurst Forest Preserve on Aurora's east side, thanks to an agreement with the Forest Preserve District of Kane County.

ROLLING MEADOWS — Nearly two dozen gardeners and homeowners who live north of Central Road Elementary School appeared before the Rolling Meadows Park District Board this week to oppose a plan to convert a gardening plot into a soccer field.

But the gardeners, mostly senior citizens and nearby residents, want the 3.8 acres of land to remain a gardening plot.

When registering to reserve plots, please have your vehicle license plate number along with the make, model and year of the car you will be using to visit your garden plot.

If there is an occurrence of vandalism, theft or damage or in case of emergency at a garden plot site, the gardener should contact the Fox Valley Park District Police at 630-450-7024.

Sal Gilbertie, of Gilbertie's Herb Garden in Westport, CT will discuss strategies to maximize harvests with a low - impact, all organic, and sustainable produce garden for gardeners with plots of all sizes during «Small Plot, High Yield Gardening.&Garden in Westport, CT will discuss strategies to maximize harvests with a low - impact, all organic, and sustainable produce garden for gardeners with plots of all sizes during «Small Plot, High Yield Gardening.&garden for gardeners with plots of all sizes during «Small Plot, High Yield Gardening.»

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The Park Board of Commissioners is scheduled to approve the design plans for the skate park at the Garden Plots on Thursday.

There's a large, weedy, overgrown, rooty spot in which we think our garden plot would best be come spring, and I had hoped that these two pigs might do the job for us this winter of cleaning it up and turning it all over, fertilizing it all the while.

Get organic, local produce through one of our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, or get a plot in our Community Garden.

«If you have ever had a garden, and someone accidentally walks through it, you know you can have hundreds of hours destroyed,» said Dick Scrymiger, a gardener at the Naperville plots.

Joe Schultz, executive director of the Park District, said that the Garden Plots location gives youngsters safe access in the downtown area.

Tomatoes, cucumbers and towering sunflowers may not be the only things sprouting in Naperville's Garden Plots, now that the northern part of the land has become the prime candidate for a new skate park.

Other possible sites on the southern portion of Knoch Park and the nearby Garden Plots were ruled out because of resident concerns over security, noise and interference with existing park programs.

The Park District, which has a long - term lease from the city for the Garden Plot property, also would have to seek the city's approval of the skate park location, officials said.

«There's going to be a mixed use of the parks and facilities; there's no ifs, ands or buts about it,» said Commissioner Steve Born, who supported building the skate park next to the Garden Plots.

«Skateboarding is not right for Naperville, and it's definitely not right for the garden plots,» said Shawn Noble of Naperville.

«We're not in danger of not having enough places to garden,» said Commissioner Mary Lou Wehrli, who supported building a skate park next to the Garden garden,» said Commissioner Mary Lou Wehrli, who supported building a skate park next to the Garden Garden Plots.

An informal poll of about 20 residents at Wednesday's public meeting showed the skaters and residents preferred the Garden Plots site over the two options at Knoch Park.

It's okay if you don't happen to own your own chicken coop, but why not grow food with your child via a simple pot of herbs on the windowsill, or a plot at the local community garden?

Gardeners in Naperville are angry, but residents of one neighborhood are pleased by a Park District decision to hold off providing space for more than 150 new community garden plots on the city's south side.

Last month, the final three site possibilities were narrowed to the northern portion of Knoch Park west of the tennis courts, the southern half of Knoch Park near the baseball fields and the Garden Plots.

Avid gardeners who don't have much space to tend at home may reserve one of the Naperville Park District's 700 plus garden plots located on West Street, across from Knoch Park.

Within 2 1/2 weeks after the City Council's 5 - 4 rejection of the skate park location at the Garden Plots, FAST pitched its idea for the temporary park.

The City Council's unanimous endorsement came three weeks after city leaders had rejected a proposal by the Park District to construct a 20,000 - square - foot skate park on the northeast corner of the city's Garden Plots.

Park District officials plan to place the skate park north of the community garden plots, on the west side of West Street, south of Martin Avenue.

Though council members supported the concept of a skate park, they had concerns about the city's liability if the park is built at the Garden Plots.

The Hoffman Estates Park District is now taking reservations for garden plots to rent for the summer of 2018 to residents and non-residents who wish to grow their own plants and vegetables.