West Palm Beach garden won’t get grants | West Palm Beat

An urban garden in West Palm Beach may go unrealized, due to lack of water and no business plan. But help is on the way. Click title for link.

Community Development Block Grants to pay for a $5,000 water hookup for the city’s first planned urban garden won’t work. The catch: profit.
Commissioners heard at their Aug. 25 work session that organizers need a new connection to the city’s water supply. It will cost about $5,000, and organizers would like the city to pay.
 In September 2013, commissioners voted for a three-year, $10-a-year deal to lease to Urban Growers the 1.52-acre city-owned parcel at 1400 Henrietta Ave., north of Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard and west of Dixie Highway.
Urban Growers founder Stewart W. Bosley, Jr., hoped to grow seeds off-site, transplant them by the spring of this year, have a formal dedication in November and see his first harvest by late December. But nothing’s been planted yet. Delays set in, chief among them the water issue.