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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday April 23, 2008 - 15 Living Oakville Beaver LIVING EDITOR: ANGELA BLACKBURN Phone: 905-845-3824, ext. 248 Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: angela@oakvillebeaver.com PHOTOS BY DEREK WOOLLAM / OAKVILLE BEAVER SPRING DREAMS: At left, young Will Grecco and retired physician Dr. Susan Curran at work one Sunday afternoon last year in the organic garden located in the park beside the Oakville Arena. At right, Sean Grecco also pitched in to help. Curran was instrumental in the establishment of the garden last spring and is looking forward to its second season this year. There is even a Community Foundation of Oakville grant of $2,000 in hand to expand and improve the effort this year. Planting is expected to take place around Victoria Day weekend, but volunteers are being cultivated now. Green thoughts in bloom for Rebecca at Kerr By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF T houghts of green aren't far from the corner of Rebecca Street and Kerr Street. The site, inaugurated as the Oakvillegreen Community Garden Project (OCGP) last spring, may not yet be in bloom again, but the planning has begun and visions of the garden's bounty are in the minds of many. Volunteers and organizers of the OCGP established the garden located in what's now a park beside the Oakville Arena (on the corner of Rebecca and Kerr streets). OCGP founder, retired Oakville family physician Dr. Susan Curran, whose tireless efforts persuaded the Town of Oakville not only to donate the site and till the ground, but also to keep the garden's rain barrels full of water, said there was lots of interest in the project, from the time it was first planted on May 24, throughout last summer. Curran is hoping for similar interest again this year, particularly from the immediate neighbourhood, to make it a truly "community" effort. Because of her long-standing interest in organic food and environmentalism, Curran decided to initiate the OCGP as a way to raise awareness locally on these issues. Kerr Village is also the location where an organic farmers' market was established last year -- with Curran again involved in that project, though the retired physician said the two ventures are quite separate and the 20-ft.-by-20-ft. community gar See Green page 21