Moore Jackson Community Garden

Theater Description

This half-acre plot of land in Woodside, New York is led and maintained by a dedicated group of volunteers from both the neighborhood and beyond. The revitalization project was initiated by two women in September 2017, Samantha Yeung and Elizabeth O'Connor, who had never met but both wanted to clean up the space and open it up to the community at large. 

It was an urban jungle with 7-foot-tall Japanese knotweed on approximately 75 percent of the property. It took a lot of organizing, community involvement, and energy to clear out the space, tarp it to suppress this invasive weed, and then build what we see today: a vibrant community garden (51st Street 'Farmhouse' side) adjacent to a well-kept, preserved family cemetery (54th Street side).