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Baytree Street Community Garden

Program Area: Ambassador Project, ReClaim

Topic: Community Engagement, Vacant Land

Year: 2015, Current

Neighborhood: Northside, Observatory Hill

Parent Project:

News/Press Coverage

North Siders reclaiming vacant lots with designs for community

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | April 27,2015

Doug Deckert is a good neighbor –  you can find him at events, participating at community meetings and instigating fun activities in his Northside neighborhood of Observatory Hill.  It is important to Doug that he and his son connect to their neighbors in their community.

It’s Doug’s goal to create an outdoor space that encourages connectedness in Observatory Hill. The lot he will be working on has been vacant and overlooked for quite some time – however, Doug plans to change that. His design for the space includes garden beds for the community, a campfire pit, lawn games and creative gardening spaces.

I want to create a life of connectedness for myself and my son where I live.

— Doug Deckert, ReClaim Northside Ambassador

3712 Baytree St, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

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Bean Tunnel
Fence
Garden
Work Group
Garden Bed Construction
This garden bed is growing a Doug!

The Design for Baytree Street Community Garden includes a fire pit, benches and raised beds.

The Baytree Street lot has some interesting topography. It sits about 15 feet off the sidewalk level and is bordered by a sheer rock wall.

The site has held a few small cook-outs which will be greatly improved once some amenities are added.

Ambassador Doug Deckert and Michelle Steinmetz set up bricks to edge the site.

Ambassador Nicole lent Doug a hand with his project. Here she is edging the site with brick.

Doug plans to keep the milkweed

Volunteers, including Ambassadors Nicole and Ayanna, have been working to get Doug's site looking nice.

Feeling accomplished after installing the bean tunnel

The mighty deer fence is underway

Beautifully crafted vine trellis, made from found materials on site

Dirty hands after a good workday

Garden Bed Construction

This Garden Bed is Growing a Doug!

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