A garden is a friend you can visit anytime...

Children's Community Garden in Concord, July 7, 2009

Contra Costa Times Photographer Jim Stevens, Anna, The Lemon Lady and the delightful children who tend the garden.

Please read an upcoming story by Reporter Laura Casey in the Contra Costa Times: Saturday, July 18, 2009 newspaper.

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Children's Community Garden in Concord

Hopes Are Planted In Friendship's Garden Where Dreams Blossom Into Priceless Treasures...

Children's Community Garden In Concord
Donated seedlings growing in the garden.






Brian and his little brother, Angel.
May 17, 2009

Donated seedlings are growing mid-May 2009.


“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”
-Abram L. Urban

Give the children an opportunity to make garden.

Children's Community Garden In Concord
Photo taken April 21, 2009
Donated seedlings growing in the garden.

"Give the children an opportunity to make garden.
Let them grow what they will.
It matters less that they grow good plants
than that they try for themselves.”
-Liberty Hyde Bailey

Kind hearts are the gardens...

Children's Community Garden In Concord
Photo taken April 21, 2009
Donated seedlings growing in the garden.

“Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots,

and words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits.

Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds,

fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Good things are happening in a little garden in a low-income area of Concord...

Children's Community Garden in Concord
Donated seedlings growing in the garden April 21, 2009

Written by my dear friend "K". She is the original volunteer who "adopted" this community in Concord.

"The garden sprouted last year when a volunteer gave children free seeds and a few plants. The children dug holes in rock hard soil and planted their garden. A few “Charlie Brown Christmas Tree” looking plants grew, the children harvested a few tomatoes, and they were thrilled! The little garden sparked the interest of two adults in the neighborhood. This year, with the help of those two adults and the same volunteer, the community garden will grow larger and healthier.

The volunteer found another volunteer to roto-till an area approximately 12’ x 20’ in the rock hard earth. Soil and nutrients have been added, and more volunteers have come forward to donate plants and seeds: tomatoes, peas, squash, melons, lettuce, spinach, peppers, cilantro, beans, eggplant, corn, strawberries and more. On a warm Sunday in April, together the adults and children in the neighborhood planted a beautiful garden."