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From l-r: Downtown Community Garden members Deb Hebbel, Renee Rose, Wendy Ho-Schnell, Mark Fields, Paige Morgan and Pat Bartoshesky. Photo by Lindsay duPhily
Growing Together Downtown residents are digging this gardening endeavor By Ken Mammarella
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ilmington’s Downtown Community Garden has a very down-toearth name. It’s downtown, the northwest corner of Fourth and Orange streets, to be exact. It’s a garden, with 22 raised beds, all rented for $25 for the season, planted mostly with vegetables, fruits and herbs, but also pretty with flowers. And it’s a community, in several ways. “Everybody pitches in,” said Paige Morgan, who moved to Delaware in 2019 and started growing food in the garden the next year. “Because of the pandemic, we came together as a true community garden,” said Mark Fields, who was one of the founding gardeners in 2016, when it was in the 400 block of N. Market St. “We know each other and get together” to work on the garden. ► JUNE 2021
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