Jonni Ford poses at the Sprague Community Garden. (photo submitted)
Published April 01. 2021 12:01AM
Glenn Alan Cheney, Special to The Times
Jonni Ford and Carrie Merfeld have a dream. It used to be somebody else’s dream, but now it’s theirs. Their dream: to grow a truly community community garden.
Ford is owner of a boutique nursery in Hanover, Zen Hollow Greenery. Merfeld is a biology teacher at Windham Tech.
And the garden of their dreams is a little grouping of raised beds in Baltic, right next to Shetucket Village senior housing.
When the garden was somebody else’s dream, it didn’t really flourish the way dreams dream. It was there, but nobody really noticed. Nobody really cared. Nothing much happened, and nobody even remembers how it got there.