Empowered Spaces Community Garden Work Day
Join us for our first Community Garden Workday of the 2025 growing season!
Saturday, May17, from 9:00 - 11:00AM!
We will start this garden workday with Yoga In The Garden with Jessie from 8:30-9:00AM
Imagine a space where fresh food is grown by the community, for the community. Where your hands in the soil heal both the land and yourself. A garden where people come together to learn, heal, and build a more just and sustainable future.
That’s what we’re growing at Empowered Spaces Community Garden— and we invite you to be a part of it!
Located at the heart of our holistic healing center, our community-led garden is rooted in permaculture principles, perennial agriculture, environmental sustainability, and community care.
Our garden is currently made up of 35 fruit and nut trees, 6 raised garden beds, a pollination garden, a medicinal herb bed, and a tea garden.
We believe that food is medicine, that land stewardship is healing, and that everyone—regardless of income—deserves access to nutritious, high-quality food.
Through our Collaborative Food Share Program we share the harvest with individuals and families in the community who are in need of access to quality food.
At Empowered Spaces Community Garden, we aren’t just tending the soil—we’re tending to community, justice, and collective healing.
When you become a member of the Empowered Spaces Community Garden, you’re not just signing up to garden— you’re showing up in community.
Why Join the Garden Co-op?
LEARN & PRACTICE –
Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or a total beginner, you’ll gain hands-on experience in organic gardening, permaculture, and sustainable land stewardship.
COMMUNITY CARE –
Be part of a cooperative where mutual support, equity, and justice guide everything we do. Participate in community organizing and activism through locally-based partnerships and programs. It’s about community, not just crops.
HEAL, LEARN & GROW –
Experience the therapeutic benefits of gardening, while also attending our holistic healing workshop series “In The Garden”, which will explore integrative justice driven approaches to embodiment, mental health, and wellness, both individually and collectively. Offerings will include yoga, meditation, sound healing, creative expression and more
CONNECT & GIVE BACK –
Through the Collaborative Food Share Program, be a part of community care and help provide nutritious, organic food to those who need it most while fostering resilience and sustainability. The vast majority of the produce will be shared with those in need, and every garden member will also take home a small basket of produce on garden workdays during harvest seasons.
Our current plan for what and when we plan to plant:
April: radishes, potatoes, dill, cilantro, beets, turnips, broccoli
May: Armenian cucumber, cucumber, spinach, cherry tomatoes, shishito peppers, basil, malabar spinach, summer squash, nasturtium, sweet peppers, Jimenez pole beans, butternut squash, eggplant, asparagus, green onion, chives, marigold
July/August: sweet potatoes
Monthly Resources
Here are some of our favorite resources to help plan your own garden.
Seed STL spring crops and garden planning
The Suburban Micro-Farm: Modern Solutions for Busy People (suburbanmicrofarm.com)
How the Co-Op Works
To join the co-op:
Sign up with a self-determined sliding-scale annual membership fee. Register here.
Commit to volunteering in the garden each month (see below for details on our Collaborative Food Share Program).
In return, all members will receive a small weekly basket of fresh produce during growing seasons.
By being a member of the Garden Co-Op you will:
1) Learn about and participate in organic urban gardening
2) Participate in community organizing and activism through locally-based partnerships and programs
3) Attend free programs in the garden through the In The Garden Workshop Series that explore integrative justice driven approaches to embodiment, mental health, and wellness, both individually and collectively
4) Join us for Yoga In The Garden before our garden workdays.
4) Participate in community in ways that recognize differentials of power and privilege, tied to differences such as race, class, gender, and sexuality
Collaborative Food Share Program
Our mission is to provide accessible organic produce and herbs to individuals and families in need.
Join us in this mission and in creating more of the world we want to see!