A watery field filled with native grasses, wildflowers, insects and birds is coming for the first time to an Akron park near you.
The pilot project, known as the Hardesty Park Meadow Project, will be the first meadow built in a city park and will stretch across 8,000 square feet of the park’s northwest corner at the intersection of Wallhaven Drive, Sabetha Place and Alton Drive.
“I am ecstatic about it,” said Akron resident Deborah Bartle, who lives in the Wallhaven neighborhood and grows wildflowers and vegetables in her backyard…