about the garden
Euclid Street Community Garden was established in 2012 in partnership with the DC Department of Parks & Recreation. The garden contains 40 11' x 4' plots (4 of which are ADA accessible), an orchard, a communal herb garden, and several pollinator habitats.
The garden is located on Euclid Street at the SW corner of 14th Street & Euclid NW in Washington, DC.
The garden is located on Euclid Street at the SW corner of 14th Street & Euclid NW in Washington, DC.
history
The Euclid Street Community Garden idea came about in late 2008 when the city decided to renovate the existing Justice Park at 14th Street & Euclid Street NW. The city agreed to do a land swap with a local developer for the empty lot across the street from the park. DPR would build a new park on the empty lot and the developer would turn the existing park space into new housing. At a community meeting about the new park design it was suggested that a portion of the park would make a great community garden space. Saharah Moon Chapotin, Oscar Anderson and Otis Marechaux volunteered to work with DPR to build a community garden into the new park's design and manage the garden after it was completed. After several starts and stops, a change in administration, and some usual DC politics, the garden and park were finally completed and opened to new gardeners in April 2012.
meet the current garden committee
Sasa Tang
Sasa’s first gardening memory was when she was a child with her grandma at their community garden in China, pulling up purple amaranth and later cooking it and watching the leaves turn the white rice into a deep purple. Sasa’s current favorite vegetables to grow are garlic chives, Serrano peppers, and rainbow chard.
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Lynda Laughlin
Lynda Laughlin lives in Lanier Heights. She’s an active public sociologist and also works as one at the U.S. Census Bureau. She looks forward helping to create a prosperous garden community and improving her green thumb.
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Oscar Anderson
Oscar is a founding board member of the Euclid Street Community Garden. He loves to experiment with new things to grow but inevitably ends up with half a plot of tomatoes because he thinks there is no such thing as too many tomatoes. By day, he works as a researcher for a national non-profit and has been known to fill his entire cubicle with plants.
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founding board members
Saharah Moon Chapotin
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Otis Marechaux
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Oscar Anderson
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