Community gardening is an essential part of our food security programming. Gardens provide fresh produce for our pantries and are an important tool to help educate clients on healthy eating and engage the community in food security awareness.

Located at the Lutheran Church of Good Shepherd in North Wilmington, this garden is a powerful demonstration of how a community garden can help ground a church in an important ministry, strengthen ties among its members and outreach to its neighbors. What started as a girl scout project with 3 beds, has developed into 7 beds managed by the church and 34 beds for community members, with an automatic irrigation system. Together, they produce more than 3400 pounds of produce a year for the LCS - St. Stephens pantry.

Our Main Office garden, recently renovated with the construction of the Food Hub. Our beds produce healthy vegetables for our food pantry and for the Delaware Food Farmacy using the techniques and designs perfected at the Shepherd's Garden.

We'd like to thank our outstanding community members and pantry clients for making this garden possible! We'd also like to thank the Urban Garden Coalition, New Castle County, Liberty Ministries, Urban Agriculture, and the Delaware HUD for their support.