The Brickyard Road School site, current home to Nick's Organic Farm and the Brickyard Road Educational Farm, will be turned over to Montgomery County on Thursday, Aug. 16.
For nearly two years, the property has been embroiled in a heated battle between the county's mission to turn the site into youth soccer fields, and local activists who wish to save the 32-year-old organic farm currently on the site. Legal battles, information entanglements and a passionate community have kept this issue at the top of our headlines since the Brickyard Road Soccer Field plan was first unveiled.
Be sure to come back next week for a video feature detailing the history of the Brickyard Road controversy, and what the future holds for the property.
Check out our Brickyard archives here.
organic friend
10:45 am on Friday, August 10, 2012
Thanks for the notice, I will look for your coverage. I hope you will answer the growing question "why is Ike Legget doing this?" I can understand him trying to slip in a few soccer fields when nobody cares, but he has now fought a growing opposition where he now is willing to alienate seveal vital Potomac communities, opposition from the Council, ignoring petitions signed by thousands, lawsuits, FOI extended battles where it is clear someting is being hidden, and here, a media response that is paying attention....for a few soccer fields? What's really going on here? Please answer that, please look into the Executive's real motives for spending huge amounts of polital capitol here, please help me understand why he feels it necessary to try to steamroll reasonable citizens over a few soccer fields.
Many thanks.