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Kelly Street Garden

Participants at Kelly Street Garden sit around a table in the garden near a mural.
Courtesy of Kelly Street Garden
Courtesy of Kelly Street Garden

Located in the Hunts Point/Longwood section of the South Bronx in New York City, Kelly Street Garden is a food justice project with the core intention of mediating engagement and healing around food, art, health, and education. Garden programming, which includes food cultivation and distribution as well as healing workshops, directly addresses the needs of the area, creating a space of health, wellness, and quiet respite.

“A community garden is a spiritual undertaking in which the garden represents the higher force. It is our role to be in service to it.”

— Bruce Zeines, Co-Manager

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“The garden for me has been soul birthing. We assume we have a soul, but I think we have to grow one.” —Sheryll Durrant, resident garden manager and project leader