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The Fifth Street Community Garden was started in the Spring of 2006 to beautify our neighborhood and stimulate interest in a community-based project. Despite our brief existence, we've added some special features. The most popular is the beautiful curved brick path, an important pedestrian link in the neighborhood. Near the path is a rain garden that catches runoff from a parking lot next door. Gardeners used the left-over dirt from these projects to construct a mound planted with native prairie plants and grasses. We also built an herb garden and an area with shrubs and ornamental grasses.