GrassRoot Ohio with Michael Doody and Emily Frechette, founder and organizers to save Kossuth Street Garden in Columbus Ohio. Why would the city of Columbus want to zone away the right for a well established-15 years old community garden to exist? What are these folks are doing to Save it?
Michael Doody is a Life long resident of Columbus. He’s lived in his house near the Kossuth Street Garden since 1996. He graduated in Journalism from OSU and has volunteered with Comfest, Hot Times Community Festival, for progressive candidates and is currently the block watch coordinator for Southern Orchards, bringing good dialogue between the Columbus Police Department and nearly 4,000 people in Southern Orchards. He is Founder/Director of Kossuth Street Garden and in 2007 he helped re-start Earth Day Columbus - and that first year's theme was “Start A Community Garden" which they did.
Emily Frechette is the Kossuth Street Garden manager, along with her husband. She grew up near Dayton Ohio and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a double major in Environmental Studies and Creative Writing. They moved to the Southern Orchards area in 2012, lived and worked on a 1-acre microfarm near Deshler Park for several years, moved to another area of town and volunteered at KSG, then moved back to Southern Orchards in 2016 when they bought their house, which is right across the street from KSG - the reason they moved here. In 2018 Emily was elected President of the Central Ohio Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, a national conservation group.
Kossuth Street Garden is a one acre organic community garden located at E Kossuth Street and S. 17th Street - just south of Nationwide Children's Hospital and just east of German Village.
https://www.facebook.com/KossuthStreetGarden
Write: Nicole Harper- Council Person Priscilla Tyson's assistant at:
nnharper@columbus.gov
& please cc: kossuthgarden@gmail.com
when you do.
Save Kossuth Garden.
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