02/01/2012
This winter is an especially hard one at the Common Ground Community Garden (52nd and Newton). Last month one of the founding gardeners, Mary Jane Halligan, died. Mary Jane gardened at the Common Ground Community garden since it’s inception in 1995. In recent years her son Jim began to lend his talents, contributing to the Common Ground sign and new plants. Mary Jane was the envy of every gardener. Her dirty gloves and sweet spirit grew community and plants, naturally. She always came to the garden with a rake, a smile and some new gardening tip for the novice green thumbs.