By Nida Merchant

With summer gearing into full effect, the city of Sugar Hill has started a brand new project for its residents to get busy on as a year-long project.

The Sugar Hill Community Garden, located at the Gary Pirkle Park, is a new project that involves the citizens of the community in a quite unique way. Citizens can now garden and grow different crops and vegetables for their personal usage and work in the fields of Sugar Hill! The city is selling plots for those who are willing to invest in this giant project. The plots start at $35 dollars a plot, $55 for two plots and so forth.

The overall goal of the city’s community garden is to bring the people together in a collaborative environmental effort. By bringing residents together in an active way to promote the city and tying it together in an environmental aspect, Sugar Hill is proving itself to become quite diversified in all the ways the city is coming to life.

The Garden is managed by the Sugar Hill Community Garden Advisory Board which looks over the operation of the garden and allocates for the resources it may need from the city. It has prepared an application process to allow citizens the ability to purchase their plots in a fairly simplistic project. The Plot fees may be paid at the Sugar Hill Community Center under the Parks and Recreation Department.

Though the plots are of personal use, the Advisory Board asks its gardeners to contribute at least 12 hours a year to help with the beautification and preservation of the land and allow for the Community Garden to thrive in upcoming years

Sugar Hill is excited in seeing the community come together in making this project a community collaboration. For more information on the Sugar Hill Community Garden or to fill out an application, please visit the City of Sugar Hill website.