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Wangari Gardens – New Garden Park Coming to 2.7 acre space of land by Washington Hospital
Well this is freaking awesome.
From an email:
We are really excited to tell you about Wangari Gardens, a new garden park that is being established in Washington, DC, on a 2.7 acre space of land that is bursting with creative potential! With a mission inspired by the legacy that Professor Wangari Maathai left behind, we are in the brainstorming, planning, and outreach stages of things right now, trying to get as much input as possible from the community about how the space can best be used to benefit everyone. Some of the main ideas include a community garden, a playground, a fruit tree orchard, a butterfly/sensory garden, a walking/wheelchair trail, a rain garden, an outdoor classroom, and a dog park.
The most immediate plans are to begin constructing raised beds for the community garden on March 18th, with a park opening date set for April 1st. In order for this to happen, we need your help! There are endless opportunities for volunteering your time and skills, whether it be through fundraising, planning, building, planting, teaching, etc. Check out the attached flier for upcoming volunteer dates!
If you are interested in being a plot-holder in the community garden, please see the attached application.
If you would like to donate to the Wangari Gardens project, you can do so through a tax-deductible donation on Paypal, accessed through our website (this should be working in the next day or two). Your donation goes straight to the project through Groundwork Anacostia, an amazing environmental justice organization in DC who has agreed to be our fiscal agent.
We are so excited to get this project going, but understand and wish for it to be a fluid creative process, involving as many people and opinions as possible. All input is much appreciated. Feel free to use this flier to spread the word about Wangari Gardens, especially to those who live nearby the park site. We have some upcoming outreach days to make sure that all of the neighbors know what is going on, but the more people talking about it, the better.
Find out more information: www.facebook.com/wangarigardens
www.wangarigardens.wordpress.com (under construction)
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Wangari Gardens is located on a 2.7 acre space, bordered by Irving St. NW, Kenyon St. NW, and Park Pl. NW. It is north of Howard University, west of the Washington Hospital Center/Children’s Medical Center, south of the US Soldiers’ Home, and east of the Parkview and Pleasant Plains neighborhoods. The site is in Ward 5, but borders Ward 1.
Wangari Gardens Garden Plot-holder Application
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i'm guessing they put in some good sound buffering windows? fl ave is LOUD. 
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^yes. The only danger at this location is being run over by a motorist from Maryland.
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Faison's writeups make me crazy. And not in a good "I'm crazy for buying this house!" way.
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God you people are boring. Why not more chatter about their footwears?
fantastic
WOW. All of those things would be good to have.
YESSSSSS. I live a block away and couldn’t be more excited. That’s a pretty quick turn around for the space.
I am also a block away and ecstatic! This will be great for our neighborhood!!
Good news for the neighborhood! Nice to have a new playground in the area.
This is fantastic!
Cool. I often ride along this plot’s singletrack path to get to my doctor’s appoint at the Washington Hospital campus. Always thought it had great potential.
This is amazing! Very exciting. Wow. I just don’t understand why the dog park has to be 7 times bigger (eyeballing it) than the playground, and otherwise bigger than each of the other fantastic ideas.
hey there, this plan is not at all a final/exact outline–mainly just a way to put ideas down on paper. if you can, come to the community brainstorming session on march 18th–there we’ll all be talking about what is important to us, what should get top priority, etc. thanks for the feedback!!
This is amazing! Can’t wait!
What in the hell was wrong with it before? Why does everything have to be “developed?” It was nature at its purest – grass, trees. I walked my dog there for years, she ran around like crazy of course I bothered to take the time to train her not to run into the street and she wouldn’t, even at full bolt after a squirrel. And I always scooped poop. It was perfect and could have been used by anyone for picnics, games, frisbees, kids playing, etc just as it was. Glad I moved – now that it will be “developed” it will lose its beauty.
Grass isn’t that natural and takes a lot of upkeep, having a rain garden is very beneficial for the environment, and a community garden would be great. A place to throw a frisbee would still be fantastic – but I have never seen anyone every walk on or utilize this space – besides cut across it. So why don’t we make it more versatile.
I hope that you can announce this more than online. A lot of my neighbors don’t have internet, and I can see some real potential for additional interest in the community garden if you spread the word via flyers, or announcements at churches, etc…
Thank you – this is going to be great!
Definitely! We’ve got some great fliers made up in English and Spanish (the English one is attached to the PoP post) and have been passing them out at anc meetings, to neighbors, etc. As a resident of the Parkview neighborhood, I’ve been talking my neighbors’ ears off about it : ) But we are also having an outreach day on Saturday, going door to door in Parkview and Pleasant Plains to invite people to the first volunteer workday and Community Interest meeting (March 18th). Spread the word!!
Am I the only one who didn’t know what “Washington Hospital” was? I’ve always referred to it as “Washington Hospital Center”.
I use this space for playtime with my golden retriever nearly every day and have often wondered what more could be done with it. I love that it is to be more thoroughly utilized, I just hope that the dog area will not be artificial turf. That stuff’s very bad for the dogs’ knees and hips.
Hi Annie,
It would be great if you could be involved with the planning of the dog park! There are a couple of people with dogs in the neighborhood who are putting together some plans right now (I don’t know much about the process)–if you’d like to be a part of that, send an email to wangarigardens@gmail.com Or if not, come to the community meeting on March 18th if you can to make sure that your voice is heard.
The more input the better!!!
Love the dog park idea, but don’t make it official. Just put up a fence and let folks do what they do. If you involve DPR they will require site changes, distressed granite, and a host of other issues that will bankrupt your funding and destroy the green of your garden.
Hi Wayan! Would you mind sending an email to wangarigardens@gmail.com ? I would love to ask you some more specific questions about dog park creation, since I am not very experienced at all….
Thanks so much for commenting!
I’ve passed by this area thousands of times and wondered about such a large wasted space. I’m so happy that it will be put to such a good use. All those options sound like wondeful ideas, especially the fruit trees and the rain garden. And to name the entire effort after Ms. Maathai is such a throughtful gesture.
Just wondering if the District will some how improve pedestrian access to the park? Isn’t it kind of hard to get to there with all the traffic coming from so many directions? Just wondering.
This coud be great. Pedestrian access is a good point…Also, I wish it could include that chunk of the soldiers home property just to the north, and shut down or bury that stretch of Kenyon…
I´d just love to see some of the soldier´s home property opened up to public park usage, I hate the double fence around it – chain link and barbed on top of the original stone…