The Everyone Garden

The garden is a conversation that spans season after season, forward and back, with all beings that emerge within it. It has evolved in the last five years from hay field to a diversified food forest intended to recognize the land’s ancestral lineage under the care of the Munsee Lenape people. The garden is meant to nurture those that participate with it, the human and more-than-human world, by way of offering food and a sense of belonging, even if just for a walk around. The garden features many wheelchair accessible paths that guide folks through the keystones of the garden, which include a willow/stump circle, community-built garden boxes, a living labyrinth, hills of perennials, no-till garden beds, a polyculture forest, a hand-dug pond, art installations, greenhouses, etc. The garden invites every body with the hope that all might understand, in their own way, the interconnection of a place teaming with life. Written by Jess Cherry, Land Tender of Lonely Worm Farm.