Gray Mockingbird Community Garden, Lake Worth, Fla

Lake Worth, Fla.--The Gray Mockingbird Community Garden supports locals. Started in 2010, this 43 thousand plus square foot garden wraps around the Lake Worth Scottish Rite Foundation building. It has a container garden in the back, some in-ground fields and an ornamental plant/fruit forest in the front.

The back two of Gray Mockingbird Community Garden, Lake Worth, Fla.

Founder and Garden Director Brian Kirsch says The Gray Mockingbird is a community garden teaching natural sustainability and resiliency on land. There are individual plots for private cultivation.

The garden also donates 10 to 15 percent, of food produced, to feed local hungry people. The remaining produce is sold to local restaurants and at green markets in order to financially support the garden.

Palm Beach Beekeepers booth at Gray Mockingbird
Community Garden open house, Lake Worth, Fla.

Recently they had an open house where, with the help of facilitator/sponsor Dina Clingman-Bell founder of Urban Growers-Community Farm and Agvocacy,  several community business vendors and educators gathered to share their knowledge and products.

Lake Worth High School Steel Drum Band plays tunes for
Gray Mockingbird Community Garden open house,
Lake Worth, Fla.

There was a live band from the Lake Worth High School and several movers and shakers of the local South Florida food movement like Localecopia, Slow Food Glades-to-Coast, The Rare Fruit Council, Farriss Farm, Agvocacy, Urban Oasis Project, Just One Backyard and the Solid Waste Authority.

Raised grow bags gardening at Gray Mockingbird Community
Garden, Lake Worth, Fla.

Bell said she was working with the Gray Mockingbird Community Garden to bring awareness of urban agriculture to people, "I"m always happy when we can build awareness."

The next open house is scheduled for February 2014.

The Gray Mockingbird is a non-profit 501c3 corporation with many volunteer and community service opportunities for children and adults. The garden is located at 2000 North "D" Street, Lake Worth, FL  33460

To find out more you can go to their website at www.graymockingbird.com or contact Brian Kirsch at
briankirsch7@gmail.com or call (561) 246-0148