A small donation will help keep The Southside Community Garden growing and flourishing by helping us build a patio!

Once an abandoned lot, SCG is now a beautiful green space! This is the first year that SCG has been an organized community effort with a board, members, fruitful garden beds and gorgeous landscaping. We have had great success so far. Our individual and communal beds are full of zucchini, tomatoes, basil, broccoli, cucumbers, and much more! Our flowers are beautiful! We even planted two trees! Now we hope to use this momentum to revitalize the entrance area of the garden, which until now has not received much attention due to a lack of funds. By turning the front of the garden into a communal patio space complete with a park grill, shaded seating, and of course, more flowers and plants, we believe this garden can become a place for neighbors to come mingle and meet each other.  

Members of the garden have designed the area and made a plan for its implementation. Once funds are raised for the supplies, members of the garden and other volunteers from the surrounding community will work together to lay the bricks, install the grill, and construct the shade structure. We hope that this will make the Southside Community Garden not just a place to work--weeding and watering--but also a place to hang out, get to know one another, make new friends, and enjoy the beauty that the garden has brought to this corner of Williamsburg.