Transforming my life during the pandemic, I made bold decisions that paved the way for my dream life! I took early retirement from corporate work, relocated to North Carolina, and purchased my grandparents’ land. These challenging choices brought immense joy! Volunteering at the local botanical garden ignited my gardening passion, leading me to become a […]
Simple Gifts Community Garden began in 2009 on land owned by Jeanne Hack at the corner of Hughes Street and Apex Peakway in Apex, NC. Thanks to many volunteers, help from local businesses and a lot of trial and error, we built a 100’ x 100’ garden in the first two years. Over the next […]
In 2020 a group of neighbors formed in North Hills to promote a healthier Raleigh through Community Gardening. Today, we maintain the growth of vegetables and use native plants (ONLY) for pollinating. We distribute produce locally in Raleigh, NC and organically grow on under-utilized green space. We foster community involvement through positive interaction with neighbors, […]
Our community garden, The Sam H. Wright Sylacauga Grows Community Garden, came into being through the efforts of about forty eager volunteers in the early Spring of 2008. They divided into groups who “adopted” sections of the property and crops for their sections. Others performed logistical duties such as irrigation, fertilizer acquisition, etc. Around the […]
With communal spaces including a gazebo, orchard, meadow, trees, and a bricked barbecue area, in addition to 23 individual plots, Bel Arbor Community Garden welcomes all kinds of life to Philadelphia’s Bella Vista neighborhood. The land has a long history in Philadelphia urban gardening, being the approximate site where Alexander Parker’s Botanic Garden stood in […]
This outreach ministry is located on 2 residential lots owned by Barnett Chapel United Methodist Church in Kerrville TX. Desiring to address food insecurity in the neighborhood as well as other health and social challenges, the mission “continues to build its legacy of producing healthy food, collaboration, and building community through the knowledge and skills […]
I live in a small city in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. We are lucky enough to have an enormous public park with baseball diamonds, a football field, basketball and tennis courts, a skate park, three dog parks, picnic areas, ponds (stocked), and walking spaces. Early on during Covid Time, just as we began to […]
Today our grandkids might think planting vegetables in a cemetery smacks of the gothic and macabre and perhaps such a garden hints at vestiges of the Addams Family somewhere in our genealogy tree. But they need to examine the circumstances and the necessity during World War II for a garden in an urban environment, to […]
A Northside gardener with a plot adjacent to mine gave me this advice after my first crop died. “My beans died, too,” he said. “You just have to plant more.” “And they’ll grow?” I asked. “There’s still enough time?” “Yeah,” he said. He was on his third crop. The late wet spring had rotted the […]
The Ancestral Roots Community Garden is in Chattanooga’s Menlo Park Neighborhood. The garden plantings and design are inspired by traditional Southern African American yards and home gardens. Greens, beans, okra, muscadine, herbs, corn, watermelons and squash are all growing in the garden. Also included are a row of fruit trees and flowering plants. The garden […]
I’ve sometimes wondered about the importance of space in one’s life. For me, my home filled with family photos, colorful art works, plants, and books is the place that provides comfort and peace and is the space I can always count on. Bridge Gardens, in Bridgehampton, New York, is a five-acre public garden that gives […]
I am a gardener at a community P-Patch garden in Seattle, Washington. I also volunteer/write for the P-Patch Post, which is a free bi-yearly newspaper that is mailed to each gardener in the P-Patch program. I wrote the below article, which appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of the P-Patch Post. Her name is Bonnie […]
I grew up gardening and, living in the suburbs my whole life, was lucky to have space available to plant many different kinds of gardens over the years. In my retirement, I joined garden clubs and completed training at the University of Illinois to be a Master Gardener. I really enjoyed working with its extension […]
During the fall and winter of 2012 and 2013, Ryan W. put together a proposal to build an urban farm, which later became North Brooklyn Farms. He presented it at a Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning meeting, where two neighbors told him about the empty 61 Franklin St. lot, owned by the NYC […]
Gregory is the director and founder of East New York 4 Gardens. He is a visual artist, a community advocate, horticulturist, and founder of Gregory’s Garden. Gregory’s Garden is a community garden located on two formerly-abandoned city lots in Brooklyn, New York. Here is a quick interview with him about his experience gardening in East […]