Common Ground Garden
About Us
We seek to transform our students’ and visitors’ relationship to food by inspiring them to eat mindfully, to make healthy and sustainable food choices, and ultimately to grow their own food through biologically-intensive, sustainable gardening practices. The garden is both a functional demonstration garden for the Grow Biointensive method, as well as a teaching space for […]
Youth Education
Our students start seeds, build compost, dig and amend garden beds, and the harvest, prepare and eat the foods they grow. We integrate garden classes with students’ academic courses, basing the lesson content on state and national standards. Preschool students learn how to interact with the living inhabitants of the garden with respect, to observe seasonal […]
Get Involved
Volunteering at Common Ground Common Ground Garden thrives on help from our volunteers. We greatly appreciate the support we receive and couldn’t do it with out you! At Common Ground, we practice a unique farming method called GROW BIOINTENSIVE, a small scale farming practice focused on high yields, resource conservation, and building soil fertility. As a result, our […]