Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Carver Food Park's Razing by TDOT Reaps an Angry Harvest [Updated]

Posted by on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM

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Over at our sister blog Pith in the Wind, a heated thread is developing about TDOT's unceremonious bulldozing of the George W. Carver Food Park — the community garden located next to an I-440 overpass at the intersection of Gale and Lealand.

We'll have more in Thursday's Scene. UPDATE: Stephen George reports in the April 14 issue of the Scene.

But it's worth checking out Steve Haruch's Pith post, which juxtaposes William Williams' story in the City Paper — in which TDOT attributes the razing to complaints that the garden was an eyesore — with blogger Southern Beale's blistering rejoinder to TDOT that the garden was indeed tended by many in the neighborhood. (It's also kind of hard to refute her point that there's a reason you wouldn't see a lot of vegetables planted right now — namely, that the danger of frost passed only days before the 'dozing.)

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