Last year, Andrea Hildebran told Creative Loafing that she hoped the seeds she helped plant in St. Pete's Best of the Bay-winning Bartlett Park Community Garden would lead to more than just some beautiful green vegetables. She envisioned similar urban community gardens flourishing all over Tampa Bay.
That movement seems to be taking root. Earlier this week, more than 60 people met to form a permanent network of urban community gardens throughout the city of Tampa in conjunction with Green Florida, the nonprofit that Hildebran and her partners formed in Bartlett Park.
This article appears in Feb 4-10, 2009.