Iola’s Elm Creek Community Garden, a standard for community gardens across the nation, is changing hands — and is getting a new name in the process.
The Humanity House Garden reflects the changeover, completed Thursday at Iola’s Great Southern Bank when Val and Carolyn McLean signed over the property to Humanity House.
The McLeans, who offered up use of their land in order to open the garden in 2005, are moving to Hutchinson.
“We have three granddaughters and other family there, and I have some farmland in western Kansas,” said Val, a retired…
CHANGING HANDS: Community garden donated to Humanity House
