Thank you so much to everyone who came to the clean-up!  In three short hours we made a huge difference:

Franklin Court - After and Before
(Click on the photo to see the slideshow.)

The Franklin Court Community Garden, located in the Acre neighborhood was recently vandalized.

The vandals destroyed the garden shed, the tools, the raised beds, and fence; spread paint and tar everywhere; dug a hole and used it for burning; and all of the plants, both flowers and food, were ripped out of the garden.

In response, there is a community clean-up scheduled for Thursday, May 29th – Arbor Day – from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm at the garden. Please join us!

For more information, please contact Deborah Harding, the Operations Manager of Community Gardens Greenhouse / Vice President of Keep Lowell Beautiful, at deborah [at] communitygardensgreenhouse [dot] org or Marianne Gries, Director of the Lowell Alliance for Families and Neighborhoods, at mgries [at] ywcaoflowell [dot] org.