UALC Community Garden

We are an all-volunteer operation. Most of our volunteers come from Upper Arlington Lutheran Church (“UALC”) and Cornerstone Christian Fellowship. We have a core of group of about a dozen volunteers, supplemented by fluctuating numbers of other volunteers and our ESL friends. We have been blessed with high quality volunteers; three of our garden stewards have won the “Community Gardener of the Year” award from Franklin Park Conservatory’s Growing to Green program.

We strive to deliver Jesus’ love in three ways.

The first is by feeding the hungry. We generate thousands of pounds of fresh produce each year for our economically challenged neighbors. To date we have delivered over 109 tons of fresh produce to hard pressed folks in Central Ohio.

The second is by welcoming immigrants. We use the gardening process and the food it generates to welcome refugees from troubled regions around the world. We do that by building friendships, enhancing English language skills, and learning about each other’s cultures as we garden together and teach each other different ways to cook the crops we grow.

Third, we try to preserve God’s wonderful creation by diverting restaurant and yard waste from the waste stream into our compost bins. Every year we turn almost 800 cubic yards of waste into compost to recharge our soil.