Harkness Park plants getting established

Harkness park is coming along!  If you haven’t had a chance to walk through, please come by; it’s starting to take more shape. We are so thankful to everyone who has helped make this park be and grow. There is a bench, some lovely sitting logs, and a sitting rock.  The compost bins are completed and we are just starting to compost.  The water barrels are filling up and the many trees; shrubs and plants are becoming more established.



There is plenty of parsley and sage and some rosemary and kale to take home and enjoy.  You can clip the leaves with pruners or clean scissors. Please leave the main stems, and a few leaves for the next person. 

Thanks to Kelly Mangiaracina and Don Ranger (Duke's People) for the large sitting log; Connor Fling and Hannah Benjamin for supplying and building the pallet compost bins; Hillary Ethe for the azaleas, hydrangeas, boxwoods and strawberry plants; William Woodruff for the continued support on filling the rain barrels; and to Demetra and Ryan Dennis for the blackberry-bush clean-up support and for some of the logs around the patches. 

See you at the park!

Kippy Irwin and Deb Thornton

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  1. Ethan BradfordNovember 24, 2021 at 3:50 PM

    I just love how this is coming along. It's a wonderful park, with so many people enjoying and contributing, but I'm especially grateful to Kippy and Deb for organizing and doing an enormous amount of work there!

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  2. Kippy IrwinNovember 30, 2021 at 6:26 PM

    Thanks Ethan! Speaking of grateful, I’m grateful that global warming and how we can make an impact is becoming a more common topic. At the park we’re working on demonstrating ways to have a landscape be more of a contributor to global warming prevention. Different ways we are doing that is by working with nature. We are working on creating an environment where the bugs, worms, fungus, bees, flies, butterflies and birds all come to work everyday to improve the park. They help naturally fertilize, build soil, pollinate and manage unwanted pests. As this team gets stronger, so do the plant and trees. When the plants and trees are stronger they are much less prone to pests and disease. As this whole team thrives so does the air quality around it. If we all did this with our small piece of earth that we own or rent, we could change the world in a very short time. I would be honored to talk with anyone about ideas about how to put their piece of earth to work. Kippy Irwin - kippyc@hotmail.com

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