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Community Orchard at Owens Field Park

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Rosewood is home to a fruit orchard near the track at Owens Field Park. In 2011, the Corporation for Economic Opportunity (CEO) was awarded a grant for a community orchard from Edy’s Fruit Bars and the Tree Planting Foundation. Owens Field Park in Rosewood was chosen as the location to plant the orchard. We owe a big thank you to CEO and Edy’s, everyone who voted for Columbia to win, and the volunteers who helped plant the orchard!

Planting day, November 2011

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Updates on the orchard: April 2013

In the year and a half since the orchard was planted, the fruit trees have grown into a healthy and thriving orchard.

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Owens Field Park Cleanup

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Rosewood Elementary School is hosting a 5K run around Owens Field Park and through Rosewood on April 13. Let’s make sure the neighborhood is sparkling clean!

Please join us the weekend before the race, to clean up the roads around the park. We’ll meet at the skate park at Owens Field Park at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, April 6. Bring gloves if you have them.

You can RSVP on Facebook. Please share this information with anyone you know who may be interested. Thanks and see you Saturday!

Owens Field Park Bioblitz

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The A.C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina and the Rosewood Community Council will partner to conduct a BioBlitz at the Owens Field Park in the Rosewood Community on Saturday, March 9. Citizen scientists and interested community members are invited to take part in the survey, which will document the plant species along the Park’s trail system. A team of botanists affiliated with the A.C. Moore Herbarium will lead the study.

This BioBlitz will provide important information about environmental quality and land use changes in the Rosewood area. Documenting the Park’s botanical diversity will also allow for a better understanding of the natural plant communities that once occurred throughout the Rosewood area and will foster a greater appreciation for the community’s remaining natural areas.

Owens Field Park is a recreational area used by the public. Improvements to the Park’s trail system are being funded by the Richland County Conservation Commission.

The BioBlitz is open to the public. Participants should meet at the parking lot on the corner of South Holly Street and Airport Blvd adjacent to Memorial Stadium at 10 am on Saturday, March 9. Maps, data sheets and instructions will be provided; participants may bring garden gloves, digital cameras, and/or handheld GPS devices. No prior experience is required. Dress appropriately for outside work (closed toed shoes recommended) and bring a water bottle. The BioBlitz will be rescheduled in the event of inclement weather.

For more information about the BioBlitz, contact Herrick Brown at the A.C. Moore Herbarium at 803-777-8175.

Botanists Needed for Owens Field Park

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Are you an amateur or aspiring botanist? Herrick Brown, a botanist with the Department of Natural Resources, has begun to catalog the plants at Owens Field Park. Please join Herrick for an introductory meeting on February 10 at 4 pm at the Hamilton-Owens Field airport conference room to learn how you can help identify, photograph, or catalog the species in the park. No prior knowledge needed. Herrick will provide a primer on commonly found plants.

The content you help create will be featured here. RSVP by emailing Jenna Stephens at jenna@rosewoodcommunity.com.

National Night Out Postponed to August 14

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Please join us on Tuesday, August 4, at Owens Field Park [map] to meet your neighbors and local police officers. This community safety-awareness event begins at 6 p.m. and will include:

This neighborhood event is for kids of all ages. Hope to see you there!

RSVP on Facebook.

Rosewood’s National Night Out is sponsored by Rosewood Community Council, Central Rosewood, South Kilbourne, and Edisto Court Communities, and the Columbia Council of Neighborhoods.

National Night Out–August 14

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Update: This event has been postponed to August 14.

On Tuesday, August 7, families all over Rosewood will come together at Owens Field Park [map] to meet their neighbors and local police officers. This community safety-awareness event begins at 6 p.m. and will include:

This neighborhood event is for kids of all ages. Hope to see you there!

RSVP on Facebook.

Rosewood’s National Night Out is sponsored by Rosewood Community Council, Central Rosewood, South Kilbourne, and Edisto Court Communities, and the Columbia Council of Neighborhoods.

Owens Field Park Cleanup

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It’s time to clean up Owens Field Park again! Recent events in the park have left it a bit of a mess. Please join us at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, May 12, at the Memorial Stadium parking lot entrance to the park. We’re targeting the area from the entrance to the skate park, so we should be able to tackle that in an hour. Bring gloves if you have them. Hope to see you there!

For more info or to RSVP, email jenna@rosewoodcommunity.com.

Owens Field Airport Photos

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Check out these historical aerial photos of Rosewood. The photo at right was taken in 1938, before most of the housing was developed in the neighborhood. Click to zoom in for a better look. Owens Field Airport was originally designed as two runways that intersected, forming an X. Much of Owens Field airport covered what is now Owens Field Park.

What we know today as Rosewood was then mostly farmland, forest, and orchards, with a few farmhouses. What we now know as Edisto Court looks like it was entirely forest.

The second picture was taken in 1955. Again, zoom in for a better look. Notice how much of the farm area was developed as houses by this point. Also, many of the streets we know today have filled in. I think I see my house!

The large forested area on the right is the area that bounds Gills Creek.

Thanks to Herrick Brown, assistant botanist with S.C. DNR, for researching these pictures for us!

Owens Field Park cleanup

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Mark your calendars! On February 11, at 10:30 a.m., the Rosewood Community Council is sponsoring a cleanup of the woods in Owens Field Park. We need volunteers! You can join us for as long or as little as you’d like.

Please bring gloves and sturdy shoes. The city is providing bags and will haul off the trash when we’re through.

RSVP on Facebook or email jenna@rosewoodcommunity.com. Please forward this information to anyone you know who uses and loves Owens Field Park. Thanks and see you on the 11th!