A garden with a variety of plants, edible herbs and peach tree on town-owned Gorham property vanished last week. The garden at Little Falls Activity Center on Acorn Street apparently fell victim to neglect and was removed the week preceding Earth Day.
“Bulldozed to extinction,” resident David Alexander said in an email last week.
Produce from the garden was reportedly available to the community, but it was unclear April 22 who was charged with maintaining the garden and who authorized removal of it. Town Council Chair Suzanne Phillips had no information about it to offer.
Alexander said a grant led to construction of the garden by a collaboration of the municipality with conservation and civic groups in 2019. “It did well for a few years, but no one group took responsibility for proper maintenance. It has been neglected for last two years,” he said.
The garden was planted on the site where the Gorham Recreation Department oversees community programs for children in the activity center, a former elementary school. Gorham Rec provides free meeting space there for a senior citizens’ group with members from Gorham, Raymond and Westbrook.
Attempts to reach the Recreation Department and Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation District Tuesday afternoon for comment were unsuccessful.
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