COLUMBUS, Ind. – The Columbus Community Garden, located just off Cessna Drive at the Columbus Municipal Airport, closes for the season on Monday, October 24.
If you have a plot at the site, it is your responsibility to clean up your area of the garden by that date.
The former local philanthropic corporation, Irwin Sweeney Miller Foundation, launched the project in 1982.
The initial purpose was to give city residents who did not have a suitable area for their garden the opportunity to grow food or to practice amateur gardening. The original location for the Columbus Community Garden was in the area now occupied by NexusPark on 25th Street.
The city began assisting the Irwin Sweeney Miller Foundation with the project in 1983 and the community garden was moved to Middle Road on Columbus Airport property. The following year, 1984, the City of Columbus assumed full management of the community garden project.
The garden has remained at the Airport but has since been moved to its third, and current location off Cessna Drive.
