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A farm on Taylor Street

After two friends kick-start gardening effort, dozens dig in

07/28/2010 10:00 PM

By BETHANY REINHART
Contributing Reporter

Sally Freeman and Claudia Mazola have been friends for more than two decades — living in University Village, raising families in the neighborhood and eventually retiring there. A common, and avid, interest both women have long shared has always been gardening.

Earlier this year, that interest became less of a personal pursuit and more of a public one, as the Taylor Street Farms were born on what is nearly a half-acre of vacant land on the north side of Taylor Street, just west of Ada.

“Sally and I both have a love for gardening,” Mazola said. “We had this idea but didn’t really know what we were doing. So we put out some feelers and got an incredible response from so many people.”

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