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The Coleman Center for the Arts in York, Alabama has an on-going community garden project. Artists Bob Bingham, Robin Hewlett, and Ally Reeves have been involved in an on-going close collaboration with area residents. The garden includes an “edible townscape” of fruit and nut trees, and individual “satellite gardens” in participants' homes.
The project is helping to catalyze small scale food production and celebrate and strengthen residents connections to the land and each other. As a way of learning about the community, the artists have hosted several meals, including the a potluck meal featuring dishes the artists made with local food they gathered while riding their bikes. Participants also brought dishes that revealed something about the food they like to eat, grow, or prepare.
This spring, the artists returned and residents of York and the surrounding area joined them in planting the first installation of the garden along with the artists, working on a rainy Saturday to get everything in the ground. The group later held a dinner with dishes prepared by the artists, each with a story or poem relating to the ingredients used to make them.
The next stages of the One Mile Garden project include planting fruit and nut trees as well as the satellite gardens around York and Sumter County.
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