Werner's Community Garden

I didn’t understand what community meant until I joined Werner’s Community Garden in 2013. Up until then, I was living in Brooklyn where I never knew my neighbors by name, let alone by face.

Joining Werner’s Community Garden allotted me the space to not only connect with the earth and my food; it connected me to my new community. Through tactile group projects and a shared passion for gardening, I met my new neighbors in an organic and less anxiety-inducing way. The garden offered me an encouraging, collaborative, and intergenerational environment to learn and explore.

I deeply appreciate the garden’s dedication to community outreach, annually donating thousands of pounds of fresh produce to those in need. Werner’s Community Garden is a place of hope, joy, and community engagement. To lose this garden would be crushing, especially at a time when food scarcity is so frighteningly common. We must preserve this beautiful, well-established cultural landmark, not only for the services it provides to the community, but for the character and charm it adds to Mt. Airy.