PHOTOS: Hobbs Farm Gets a Wheelchair-Accessible Garden

Students from Stony Brook University headed to the Hobbs Farm in Centereach over the weekend to build a wheelchair-accessible garden so that local residents with disabilities can enjoy gardening.

The 7.64-acre farm, for which Setauket's Bethel AME Church is the caretaker, is located at  Oxhead Road and Washington Avenue and is one of the last remaining working farms in Centereach. It was preserved as farmland in 2009 when the Town of Brookhaven purchased the development rights through the Clean Water Open Space Bond Act of 2004.

The wheelchair-accessible garden, which features raised beds, was funded through a grant from the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

"A wheelchair garden will give residents with disabilities the opportunity to enjoy gardening, an activity that many of us take for granted. An event like this shows what can be done when a community comes together to help their neighbors," said Kathy Walsh, the Brookhaven town council member representing the Centereach area.