Hopkins Council OKs Cottageville Park Community Garden

A won official approval Tuesday night.

Council members unanimously approved the garden with a block of other items in the night’s consent agenda.

The garden will be a 40-foot-by-40-foot space in the southwest corner of the park and will cost the city about $3,000. A Hennepin County grant will pay for soil testing. Interested residents and local youth will manage the garden, with oversight from the Blake Road Corridor Collaborative.

Minnehaha Creek Watershed District will consider installation of a water line at its May 26 board meeting.

The Blake Road Corridor Collaborative brought forth the idea, which arose from two neighbors near the park. Residents will garden the space together instead of dividing it into plots like the city’s other .

Council members informally agreed to the idea at their April 26 meeting, with the understanding that this will be a pilot project. Hopkins and the watershed district still need to get together—along with the collaborative and neighbors—to finalize a plan for the area, which is in the midst of a renovation.

Residents should be working in the garden this planting season.