Mcdonough Community Garden

Mcdonough Community Garden 8500 Square feet community garden on Richmond Virginia Southside located in a USDA denoted food dese Now has never been a better time to go green!

Do you have a green thumb? 3300 McDonough Street is currently under development into a full fledge community garden! As the buzz around locally grown edible landscapes takes root throughout the country, the Friends of McDonough Street Garden are building raised beds, compost bins, greenhouses and a youth program teaching urban agriculture and social entrepreneurship. There are so many benefits for

having a community garden. Let’s take neighborhood improvement for instance. Community gardens have the capacity to increase property values of surrounding buildings and homes. Communities can grow closer via working in the gardens and associated farmers markets that may accompany them. Green spaces increase feelings of safety and build ties within the community. Community gardens provide excellent learning environments for children and young adults allowing for intergenerational and cross cultural dialogue. In addition to improving neighborhoods, community gardens have to power to evoke social change by reducing health and economic disparities for low income communities through the food grown at them. People are able to learn job skills and build careers in urban agriculture by learning how to grow food to take to market for sale to restaurants, at farmers markets and other retailers. Also herbs and flowers grown community gardens can turn into natural health care products like soaps, teas and skin & hair care products. Community gardens can provide a focus point for community activity like a children’s day or simple informal meetings, fostering greater social interaction from communities where neighbors may have limited interaction otherwise. The development and maintenance of the site with input and collaboration from the community it is located can build long-lasting nurturing relationships for everybody. All at the same time we are helping the planet and reducing our reliance on hazardous large scale industrial agriculture and reconnecting with the Earth in a sustainable way. If you are interested in getting involved in the McDonough Street Community Garden project, contact organizer Duron Chavis at [email protected] or 804-397-1465

03/13/2024

The recording of our Ask An Agroforester webinar featuring Duron L Chavis is now up on our YouTube channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ocyw6gzMG0

Duron is founder and executive director of The Happily Natural Day, as well as founder of Mcdonough Community Garden in Richmond, VA, and an exciting thought leader in urban agroforestry. Definitely worth a listen! While you're there, check out our entire Ask An Agroforester playlist.

08/05/2023
This Sunday - 11am - 2pm! Join us for dirt therapy!
04/13/2023

This Sunday - 11am - 2pm! Join us for dirt therapy!

Tomorrow!
12/29/2022

Tomorrow!

07/06/2022
These throwback pictures of are bringing back so many memories! It feels like just yesterday we started this garden but...
06/05/2022

These throwback pictures of are bringing back so many memories! It feels like just yesterday we started this garden but it’s been 10 years!!! When the Occupy Movement popped off we organized community members, got some funding from and and were off to the races. The magical part is everything fell so smoothly in place that it didn’t feel like work! Just meeting the right people at the right time! That’s when you know you on the right path!!

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3300 McDonough Street
Richmond, VA
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