LAKEWOOD GARDENS

Created in 2017, influenced by permaculture principles and the need for a shared healing and learning space. Plants propagated on site from seed, using a home made seed starting blend and portable greenhouse. Beds are crafted from fallen branches, trimmings from trees and shrubs, utilizing on-site materials and historical raised bed techniques.

C O M M U N I T Y O U T R E A C h

Let’s work together!

Contact us for educational outreach for your community garden, garden club, school garden, non-profit, library, or farmers market. Our mission is to share how medicinal and native plants contribute to resilience for people and the earth. We can personalize a curriculum for the needs and wants of your group. Let's dig our hands into the soil, craft herbal health solutions, create gardens, or learn the benefits of all.

Common Ground’s mission is to restore access to natural medicine, healthy food, education, and nature through mobile education programming and community outreach, meeting needs in place. We are committed to restoring connection between people and plants.

Find examples of some of our work below.

COMMUNITY IN THE GARDEN

The gardens served as teaching spaces, healing places, and nooks for celebration and community.

As an educator with Feather and Forager Wilderness School Cooperative, I coordinated and developed a volunteer learning service project at Crouse Run Nature Reserve for students aged four through fourteen. Collaborating with Pine Creek Land Conservation Trust, Tree Pittsburgh, and The Audubon Society of Western PA to educate and engage the students with hands on experience in the field to learn and utilize new skills, care for the environment, and to interact with local ecology. Through this collaboration we met the mission and goals of the school and non-profit organizations, while restoring balance to the local ecosystem.