The Secret Sunken Garden

The Secret Sunken Garden The sunken garden is 100 years old and located in College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine Hello! In order to make my dream come true I must raise money.

My name is Yaniv Korman and I am a student at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Landscape history, botany and urban agriculture are great passion of mine. After graduating from Mahindra united World College in India I have been working as a sustainable project manager in an environmental office for three years. Currently, I am working in Sack & Reicher Landscape Architecture in Tel Avi

v. In addition, I have been learning and practicing permaculture and ecological gardening for 12 years. There is a magical garden on our campus that is over 100 years old: the Sunken Garden. Over the years there have been several attempts to improve it, although none of them ever succeeded. I have a dream to create an edible garden that will house many native plants. I am hoping to create a sustainable and low-maintenance garden that will offer food to our college community, the tourists of Bar Harbor, and the birds, bees, and insects. With this money a professional mason and I will fix the beautiful arch entrance. In addition, I will w**d the brick path, restore the pond, prune the trees, propagate and plant edible native plants, and make the garden an inviting space for everybody. The First Step

The arch entryway to the Sunken Garden has a very important role in the garden's character, but today the broken arch blocks the entrance and makes the garden unpeaceable and uninviting. Therefore, the first step in completing this project will be to repair the broken arch. If I raise enough money, I will work with a professional mason on the arch in the coming fall. After the arch is repaired, I will w**d the paths, restore the pond, and remove invasive plants. The Second Step

The second step is to rearrange some of the plants in the garden and to plant more edible and native plants. I plan to create an edible hedge surrounding the garden; a green wall made of native plants such as purple chokeberry (Aronia floribunda), elderberry (Sambucus nigra), highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum), and wild raisin (Viburnum nudum). The outer beds inside the garden will have lower shrubs and the inner beds will have perennial flowers and small edible shrubs that will be colorful and accessible. In addition, I made a five-year plan for this project. The first two years require the most intensive work and include the implementation of the project. In the years following, the garden will require minimum maintenance as the plants grow and the garden blossoms into a more attractive space for the community. The garden will always serve as an experimental ground for the students at College of the Atlantic and allow future students to apply their ideas and desires in order to learn and grow.

This coming Friday at 6 pm we will conduct a summer tour at the garden. Everyone is welcome!
07/18/2018

This coming Friday at 6 pm we will conduct a summer tour at the garden. Everyone is welcome!

The adoptive reuse project is complete. We had more then 60 participants in our garden tour and we hope that many more w...
07/09/2018

The adoptive reuse project is complete. We had more then 60 participants in our garden tour and we hope that many more will use the garden.
Thank you for all who supported this project.

Please join our tour next Wednesday at 5 PM.
05/31/2018

Please join our tour next Wednesday at 5 PM.

05/31/2018
The Spring is nearly here!Thanks to a great crew of the COA Gardening Club, the pool in our garden is on its way to beco...
04/13/2018

The Spring is nearly here!
Thanks to a great crew of the COA Gardening Club, the pool in our garden is on its way to become a beautiful bog bed.
This coming weekend, the Gardening Club will be transplanting and cleaning in the Sunken Garden. Please come and join us!
We will be working on Saturday from 2 PM--4 PM and on Sunday from 4 PM--6 PM.

03/04/2018
11/30/2017

Thank you Creative Stone for all the great work!

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This Fall term, the College of the Atlantic gardening club collaborated with professor Isabel Mancinelli's Landscape Cla...
11/30/2017

This Fall term, the College of the Atlantic gardening club collaborated with professor Isabel Mancinelli's Landscape Class to participate in four workshops to restabilize the entrance arch and learn about the stonemason craft. The workshops were led by Alyssa Abbott and Gibran Buell from Creative Stone. Trow and HoldenTool company donated their tools to Maine Stone Workers Guild for education purposes and because Gibran and Alyssa are guild members, they were able to be used for the mason workshop at COA.

Check out the Mount Desert Islander newspaper. Thank you very much Dick Broom for a great article.
11/30/2017

Check out the Mount Desert Islander newspaper. Thank you very much Dick Broom for a great article.

BAR HARBOR — The stone arch at one end of the sunken garden at College of the Atlantic, built in 1910, has been showing its age. In fact, it would have col

Thank you for everybody who donated in the Fandango fundraiser event last week. We managed to collect $150! With this mo...
05/29/2017

Thank you for everybody who donated in the Fandango fundraiser event last week. We managed to collect $150!
With this money, we got some edible native plants for the garden's hedge. You are welcome to enjoy a short PSA about pollinator garden. Wait till the end to see our beloved The Secret Sunken Garden.
Thank you, Teagan Wu, Laurel Streeter, and Clare Kelley for making this film.

PSA for College of the Atlantic's Bees and Society class.

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105 Eden Street
Bar Harbor, ME
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