Lexington Manor Passive Park Community Garden |
You can help to make sure the planned Community Garden serves you and meets our community's needs.
A local committee is planning a community garden in Lexington Park to serve county residents and organizations. Lexington Manor Passive Park (LMPP) was offered by the County as the location. The garden is planned to be in an open area on South Coral Drive across from Three Notch Theater.
But first...
What is a Community Garden?
A community garden is any piece of land (publicly or privately held) that is cultivated by a group of people rather than one family or an individual. Unlike public parks and other green spaces maintained by local governments, community gardens are generally managed and controlled by a group of unpaid individuals or volunteers – usually the gardeners themselves.
What is a Community Garden?
A community garden is any piece of land (publicly or privately held) that is cultivated by a group of people rather than one family or an individual. Unlike public parks and other green spaces maintained by local governments, community gardens are generally managed and controlled by a group of unpaid individuals or volunteers – usually the gardeners themselves.
Community gardens often fall into one or more of these types:
- Neighborhood community gardens where individuals or families have assigned plots that they plant, care for, and harvest.
- Youth/school gardens where young people have the opportunity to do their own gardening (often as part of a formal or semi-formal program that incorporates classroom lessons with hands-on gardening activities).
- Entrepreneurial/job training market gardens, where people are trained to grow, market and sell the produce they raise. Proceeds from the sale of garden products may be used to pay the participants for their work. Programs often rely on outside sources of funding to offset costs.
- Communal gardens, not subdivided for individual or family use, are organized and gardened by a group of people who share in the work and rewards. Produce may be distributed among group members or donated.
- Food pantry gardens where volunteers, pantry clients, or both, grow produce that is donated to a food pantry.
- Demonstration gardens, working gardens, often open to the public for display and classes, that show different types of gardening methods, plant varieties, composting techniques, and more.
Community gardens provide
a place to grow food, flowers, and herbs in the company of friends and neighbors,
opportunities to reconnect with nature or get physical exercise,
offer access to land for those who lack space to garden at home, and
build/enhance a sense of community for those who work in, support, and visit the garden
a place to grow food, flowers, and herbs in the company of friends and neighbors,
opportunities to reconnect with nature or get physical exercise,
offer access to land for those who lack space to garden at home, and
build/enhance a sense of community for those who work in, support, and visit the garden