Please come and participate. Please donate bake goods for a bake sale. Please donate for the purchase of plants.
WHAT: BASS PARK KICK OFF-BAKE SALE-PLANT DAY
WHEN: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 9 AM-12 PM
WHERE: Bass Park, next to the Holly St Firehouse, 16th and Holly St
The long anticipated kick off of Bass Park is this Saturday from 9-12. Last January Metro Parks Commission approved the plan for east Nashville’s pocket park-Bass Park. Village Real Estate has provided some seed money to get the project going. Now the fun begins.
Here’s how you can participate: Donate bake goodies for the Bake sale, donate to the purchase of plants at http://basspark.synthasite.com/, come watch and pitch in if you can. We will be removing the old tree stumps, and start planting. The Bass Park Plan will be available to view. This will be an exciting beginning to this neighborhood park and community garden. Please bring shovels and gloves if you can.
Call Gloria, 226-7546 for more information and how you can be part of the Bass Park group. There are sponsorship opportunities. Your fundraising suggestions are appreciated. This is a neighborhood park, created and funded by the neighborhood. See you Saturday.
Project Description:
Bass Park is located in the lot next to the Holly Street Fire Station. The vision for the park includes sustainable elements in the Mayor’s Green Initiative such as rain gardens, porous pavement, a community garden, as well as providing a venue for environmental education and serving as a neighborhood-gathering place. Bass Park is the city’s smallest pocket park; our plan will demonstrate what is possible within a small space to strengthen the neighborhood, provide an enjoyable landscape amenity, and create sustainable components that educate and directly benefit our community.
The design is a culmination of ideas from the meetings with residents in the area, the Lockeland Springs Neighborhood Association, the Fireman at the Holly Street Fire House #14, and the Lockeland Baptist Church, who owns the adjacent property and has agreed to allow the community garden on their property with a yearly renewal option. We are proposing fundraising efforts to cover the costs of the park and maintenance for the first year. In addition, we are creating a volunteer system to maintain the community garden based on research of other successful community gardens. Your donation is much appreciated and please contact us if you would like to volunteer or have questions. Thank you very much, contact contactbasspark@gmail.com.
