Yesterday, they removed most of the fencing around the lot. Most of the 4' x 20' plots have been stripped of their productive plants. The picnic benches are gone. The canopy is gone. And yesterday a gigantic sign announcing a new housing development by Urban Living went up on the corner. It's so disgusting I didn't want to post a picture.
All this and today our listing for our home went up on the Houston Area Realtors website. The pictures show a fully-fenced garden across the street, but when potential buyers show up they will see ... destruction. Not an ideal situation for us to sell into.
The good news for the current members of the Midtown Community Garden is that the media storm the sale generated last week, on every local TV station and in the Houston Chronicle, caught the attention of several good samaritans.
There are three standing offers on the table for fresh land in the area to move the garden onto. The members have decided to accept one offer, and so the garden will be moving about 5 blocks to the northwest, right across the street from Lankford's Grocery, home of one of the oldest restaurants in Houston and arguably the best hamburgers in town.
The landowner for that space is moving the fence over there, piece by piece. Soon we will see the rise of the Midtown Community Garden 2.0. Grow on!
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