SEQUIM – She refused to let the roots die, and now, after nearly two years, they’re resuscitated.
The Community Organic Garden of Sequim – COGS – germinated last year in the minds of educator Linda Dolan and a small flock of teenagers in the Sequim High School Ecology Club.
Idealists all, they envisioned a place where young families, seniors and anybody without room for a home garden could come together.
They’d grow vegetables, flowers – and friendships.
And to include gardeners with disabilities, the organizers planned to install raised plant beds.
Last summer, local nurseryman Mark Ozias donated some plant starts.
Dolan explored pea patches in Seattle and won a scholarship to attend an August community gardening conference in Los Angeles.
But none of that landed her and the Ecology Club a place to actually plant their garden.
Chiropractor Leslie Van Romer talked of offering a piece of her property on Sequim Avenue, but that plan fell through.
Somewhere on the community garden’s path, Bob Caldwell, founder of the Friends of the Fields farmland preservation group, became an adviser.
