community garden

  • two benches in a community park garden
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    Through the Seasons at Ned Wolf Park

    Eric Sternfels sent in these photos today, of a beautiful community-created garden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania called Ned Wolf Park. We’ve visited this garden a couple of times before (Revisiting Ned…

  • close up of a row of raised garden beds
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    Making an Organic Community Garden in Arkansas

    Today we’re visiting with Mary Maud Huber. Fourteen years ago when we moved to Fairfield Bay in north-central Arkansas, I wanted a plot in the Community Garden. The town is…

  • completed community forest with newly planted trees and shrubs
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    A Community Miniature Forest

    We visited Kat Kinch's new home garden recently (Heritage and Habitat), and today Kat is sharing a cool community gardening project in Ontario, where she lives. The Warkworth Little Forest…

  • swallowtail butterfly on bright pink flowers
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    Ashland Terrace Garden

    We’re visiting with Ric McGee today. In 1999–2000 the nonprofit retirement community I directed was renovated and expanded. An avid naturalist, I designed and raised funds for a community cutting…

  • bundle of radishes
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    Gardening for the Hungry

    Today Sallie Boge is sharing a unique garden space: The St. Mary Church Garden Ministry in Riverside, Illinois, grows a vegetable/herb/fruit garden for charity food pantries. Our garden is consistently…

  • garden bed full of small trees and shrubs
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    GPOD on the Road: Earthwise Garden

    Today Cherry Ong is taking us along to a garden she visited this spring. I had a serendipitous discovery when we visited Boundary Bay in Tsawassen, British Columbia, in a…

  • plant with pink/purple flowers
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    Spring in Ned Wolf Park

    Eric Sternfels has shared pictures of Ned Wolf Park in Philadelphia before (A Garden Made by a Community), but he sent in these photos because he said it was clear…

  • Bouganvillea with light pink flowers and variegated foliage
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    A Community Garden in Singapore

    Today we’re headed all the way to Singapore, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, to visit a garden that provides beauty and solace to a community.…

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    Homesteading With a Community Garden

    Today we’re visiting with Kimberly Butler (to see more of her garden, check out her Instagram). Kimberly gardens in sunny Florida and makes great use of a community garden plot…

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    A Healing Garden on Vancouver Island

    Today Pam Fraser is taking us on a tour of a beautiful garden where she volunteers. I live in Ladysmith on the southeast coast of Vancouver Island, Zone 8, on…