Neighbors grew food in a secret garden for decades; Now it’s Lancaster’s new public community garden
This space has provided food and community: first as Depression-era victory gardens and then as a couple’s hobby.
By Erin Negley
Lancaster News
July 10, 2025
Excerpt:
When Art and Jean Bernd moved to the neighborhood in 1960, neighbors filled the empty lots with plants. The high school sweethearts met in Schuylkill Haven and relocated to Lancaster after Art graduated from what’s now Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. They grew a few tomato plants and spring onions in their small backyard and expanded to a friend’s yard, Art Bernd says. They started gardening in a corner of the open space after buying it from a neighbor in the late 1970s. Over the next 15 years, they bought the remaining parcels. The last was topped with grass and a wash line open for the neighborhood to use.
Art planted and Jean harvested and processed. Here, he grew perennial crops like asparagus and strawberries and rotated annual crops such as potatoes, tomatoes, corn, onions, cabbage, beans and more. He harvested plenty and is especially proud of picking tomatoes as early as June 16.
“I could come home from a frustrating day in the shop,” he says. “I could fight with the weeds. It was a relief to me. It was a productive hobby.”
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/neighbors-grew-food-in-a-secret-garden-for-decades-now-its-lancasters-new-public-community-garden/
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