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Article by Jonathan Nyberg Recently a group of Tuscaloosa-Lakewood gardeners went looking for a site for a community garden. Just to show you what a great neighborhood you live in, we found not one but two fabulous sites. Here is the up-to-date info on the two gardens. Lakewood Elementary School Community Garden Behind the Lakewood Elementary School on Vesson Ave. is a community garden looking for gardeners. Everyone is welcome to participate. Rebecca and I have signed up for three beds to grow the sun-loving vegetables and herbs we can't grow in our shady home garden. As a bonus, we get to help the children understand how they can grow a garden. If you would like to have a garden bed here or would like to volunteer in the garden (either to work in it or help teach the children), contact Elizabeth Newman at Lakewood Elementary School . TLNA Community Garden at Lakewood United Methodist Church We are partnering with Lakewood Methodist Church to create a community garden in their ba...

Article by Jonathan Nyberg In June of 1999, my wife Rebecca and I begin looking for a house to buy. Starting out from our rented room on Duke Street, we wound through a few neighborhoods before heading down James Street from Lakewood Avenue. We liked the street immediately, and when we got to the bottom of the hill we saw a For Sale sign, with a telephone number, nailed to a tree. Looking down the driveway we saw a small blue house surrounded by nice woods and a creek. Two months later we closed on the house, our new address, 1613 James St. In the summer of 1999 the creek dried up. But right under the square concrete pipe where the creek emerges from under James St. there continued to be a pool of clear water. "There must be a tiny spring," we concluded with great excitement. When Hurricane Floyd struck, a large chunk of earth slid into the creek. That's when we discovered the source of our urban spring, a leak from a nearby fire hydrant. It turns out this leak had underm...