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 […]
My grandparents, who have divorced and remarried, always had a garden when my dad was growing up. Both of my grandparents and my dad remembered these times during our interviews. They had a farm and a peach orchard, “so it just seemed logical to have a garden too,” explained my grandma, “We really could sit […]
Our local community gardens offer fresh produce, help facilitate the growth of new farmers, and have served as a hub for thousands of volunteers since 2010. We are located in Springfield, Missouri. We have 17 gardens, 3 urban farms, a community food forest, and a test kitchen. Our efforts are the result of an engaged […]
Gardeners have tended to the land of what is today Awbury Community Garden since it was first an allotment garden under the auspices of Philadelphia’s Vacant Lots Cultivation Association in the Great Depression and a Victory Garden in World War II. But the prolific bounty at Awbury today stems from a garden began in 1974. […]
Mrs. Woody’s Community Garden preserves the sharing ethic of the garden’s founder along with her name. The garden began as a project of Mrs. Woody, a gardener who combined keen intuition for growing with an altruistic approach to the harvest since she started in the late twentieth century. Historically, Mrs. Woody grew strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, […]
Nestled amid the concrete jungle of North Philadelphia, the half-acre green space of Brewerytown Garden provides vital relaxation and nutrition to the gardeners’ neighborhood. Originally a restaurant-owned urban farm facing neglect, Brewerytown neighborhood gardeners organized around the plot in 2013. The community officially turned the land into a community garden in 2015 under the auspices […]
Bouvier Community Garden’s roots extend to its 1994 preservation by the Neighborhood Gardens Trust, but its current status most reflects the events of the last decade. The garden had to downsize in 2015 because the Neighborhood Gardens Trust only owned two of the four lots that comprised the garden. Thanks to an agreement between the […]
Villa Africána Colobó manifests the links between North Philadelphia, the African Diaspora, and Puerto Rican culture. But the garden’s story of heritage began long before it was completed in 2006. During the 1990s, garden founder Iris Brown maintained a space in the neighboring Las Parcelas garden using “the shape of a hut” in plywood together […]
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 […]
I began volunteering with the Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild after reading an article about it by the Washington Post’s gardening columnist. The guild was formed in 1998, originally to help maintain the formal front gardens of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C. In 2014, the guild’s primary […]
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 […]
A few years back, I’d say around 2019, I felt a tug on my heart to start growing food. I didn’t really know what that meant, so I began researching vegetable gardening. I didn’t have to dig too deep to find gardeners and homesteaders on YouTube or Instagram doing exactly what my heart had been […]
Amelia Island (Florida) is widely known as an upscale resort and tourist destination, where oceanfront building lots can cost $1 million or more. This is hardly the place to find a Community Garden that features a strong commitment to providing fresh vegetables to homeless and needy families in Florida’s Nassau County…but just such a program […]
Formerly known as Squirrel Hill Community Garden, Chester Avenue Community Garden focuses on sharing community culture and providing fresh produce to west Philadelphia’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The garden began around 1984 on a lot that had previously been home to an apartment building. Garden co-founder Guina Hammond recalls that “it was really just a big […]
Building a post work life took years, but this March that life disappeared seemingly overnight. My upheaval paled in comparison to health threats and loss of life, but the prospect of losing purpose was the scariest part those early Covid days. No more classroom time reading and playing with small ones at the elementary school; […]