A quiet place
Local Residents Working Together
In addition to our many trees and shrubs, we are home to a Community Garden where local residents raise a variety of vegetables, fruit and flowers. In our Community Garden beehives are tended by neighborhood beekeepers. In addition, native milkweed on our land provides a way station for migrating Monarch butterflies.
Growing Flowers and Flax
A Cooperative Effort
The garden was initially set up as a kitchen garden for the resident caretakers. From there it has remained a chemical free, organic space that has preserved the soil for a variety of uses. Currently, the garden currently supports a cooperative effort geared towards growing flowers and flax. A volunteer who goes by the name Ask Nicely has been growing flax in order to process this plant material into a fabric shroud. This shroud will then ask as their death shroud that they will be wrapped in for their own burial. This project serves a practical function of creating a death shroud as well as acting as a catalyst to encourage conversations about death and preplanning within ourselves as well as within our communities.