Community Garden ribbon cut; Oxford will be “Growing Healthy Together!”
OXFORD – A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Saturday, May 22, to officially open the new Oxford Community Garden located on the ball flats just south of the Wastewater Treatment Facility on State Route 12. The goal of the gardens are to offer the community space to grow some of their own food, get some physical activity and grow healthy together.
Standing before 20 perfectly tilled and weed free garden plots, representatives from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County (CCE), Central New York Resource Conservation & Development Project, the Oxford Community Garden Start-Up Committee, and the community were in attendance. Stacie Edick held the ribbon as the honorable Village of Oxford Mayor Terry Stark made the ceremonious cut.
Stacie Edick is the Community Gardens Coordinator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County which secured a five-year grant from the Healthy Heart Program of the New York State Department of Health for the Chenango Community Gardens Project. “Growing Healthy Together” is the project’s tagline.
Many hands came together to make this garden in Oxford a reality. In a speech, Stacie thanked the Village of Oxford for granting them the space on the ballflats, Village of Oxford DPW Superintendent Rick Paden and WWTP Operator Kirk Noetzel for helping answer all of her questions regarding the space, and the members of the Oxford Garden Start-Up Committee including Marv Hamstra, Bobbi Lawton, Havie MacGuire, Sarah Ryan, and Bill Troxell.
Edick said, “I want to particularly thank Garden Start-Up Committee members Dale Johnson, Tred and Mary Place, and Dave Emerson, for their advice and their labor to get this spot prepared; Central New York Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D) and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for partnering with us on the garden and providing staff support with Josie Maroney, Rural Health Service Corps member; and the crew of five Rural Health Service Corps who did a fantastic job clearing the path to the garden!”
Oxford resident, Joanne Berry, came to the ribbon cutting as she is one of the seven plot holders. She was very excited to be a participant and explained that her own property is too rocky to garden. Joanne said that she was prepared to help out with one plot in the garden that will be devoted to growing food for the Oxford Food Pantry.
Twelve garden plots are still available. Anyone interested in having a plot in the garden or offering other support (funds, manure, labor, ideas, etc.) to the new Oxford Community Garden should contact Stacie Edick at 334-5841 x 20 or email spe26@cornell.edu.
The Oxford garden is one of five new gardens planned by the CCG Project for Chenango County. CCE is currently seeking partners and sites for the other gardens, including Container Gardens where garden plots aren’t possible due to lack of open land.
Standing before 20 perfectly tilled and weed free garden plots, representatives from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County (CCE), Central New York Resource Conservation & Development Project, the Oxford Community Garden Start-Up Committee, and the community were in attendance. Stacie Edick held the ribbon as the honorable Village of Oxford Mayor Terry Stark made the ceremonious cut.
Stacie Edick is the Community Gardens Coordinator with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Chenango County which secured a five-year grant from the Healthy Heart Program of the New York State Department of Health for the Chenango Community Gardens Project. “Growing Healthy Together” is the project’s tagline.
Many hands came together to make this garden in Oxford a reality. In a speech, Stacie thanked the Village of Oxford for granting them the space on the ballflats, Village of Oxford DPW Superintendent Rick Paden and WWTP Operator Kirk Noetzel for helping answer all of her questions regarding the space, and the members of the Oxford Garden Start-Up Committee including Marv Hamstra, Bobbi Lawton, Havie MacGuire, Sarah Ryan, and Bill Troxell.
Edick said, “I want to particularly thank Garden Start-Up Committee members Dale Johnson, Tred and Mary Place, and Dave Emerson, for their advice and their labor to get this spot prepared; Central New York Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D) and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for partnering with us on the garden and providing staff support with Josie Maroney, Rural Health Service Corps member; and the crew of five Rural Health Service Corps who did a fantastic job clearing the path to the garden!”
Oxford resident, Joanne Berry, came to the ribbon cutting as she is one of the seven plot holders. She was very excited to be a participant and explained that her own property is too rocky to garden. Joanne said that she was prepared to help out with one plot in the garden that will be devoted to growing food for the Oxford Food Pantry.
Twelve garden plots are still available. Anyone interested in having a plot in the garden or offering other support (funds, manure, labor, ideas, etc.) to the new Oxford Community Garden should contact Stacie Edick at 334-5841 x 20 or email spe26@cornell.edu.
The Oxford garden is one of five new gardens planned by the CCG Project for Chenango County. CCE is currently seeking partners and sites for the other gardens, including Container Gardens where garden plots aren’t possible due to lack of open land.
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