BlogsCommunityMusicArtsScreenEat & DrinkLegals The last days of Kossuth Street Garden Established by Michael Doody in 2007, the South Side community garden is being shuttered to make way for a new housing development following a prolonged fight Columbus Alive About five months ago, when he realized that Kossuth Street Garden would not be saved, Michael Doody, a former journalist and now private investigator, distracted himself by starting on a children’s book with the working title The Life and Death of a Community Garden, a process that Doody termed therapeutic. Though geared to children, the ending, as described by Doody, is one filled with horror, the garden gasping what it knows are its dying breaths. “Is this how humans treat each other?” she asks, finally giving in and releasing her spirit as the book draws to a close.