Garden Station

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Garden Station was a community garden, urban farm, art park and sustainable living education center in downtown Dayton created by over 3000 volunteers and over 300 organizations and donations from the community. It was possibly the largest and most diverse all-volunteer community project in the history of Dayton. We taught over 60 free classes each year to over 1000 attendees on a wide variety of sustainable living topics. Over 500 students and organizations took educational tours of Garden Station every year. Our EarthFest attracted over 5000 attendees from all over the state. We grew produce organically in permanent, no-till raised beds to preserve healthy soil structure. We had a food forest and examples of permaculture design. Despite all this and over 4000 signatures on a petition to keep it, the Dayton City Commissioners, Mayor and City Manager evicted Garden Station October 31, 2016 to make way for potential development that has yet to happen, now 2 years later even.Garden Station was a community garden, urban farm, art park and sustainable living education center in downtown Dayton created by over 3000 volunteers and over 300 organizations and donations from the community. It was possibly the largest and most diverse all-volunteer community project in the history of Dayton. We taught over 60 free classes each year to over 1000 attendees on a wide variety of sustainable living topics. Over 500 students and organizations took educational tours of Garden Station every year. Our EarthFest attracted over 5000 attendees from all over the state. We grew produce organically in permanent, no-till raised beds to preserve healthy soil structure. We had a food forest and examples of permaculture design. Despite all this and over 4000 signatures on a petition to keep it, the Dayton City Commissioners, Mayor and City Manager evicted Garden Station October 31, 2016 to make way for potential development that has yet to happen, now 2 years later even.