Common Space outlines three community garden sites and native-plant cut-flower program

Jul 24, 2026

Kate Gaylor detailed three garden sites used by Common Space and Carousel Connections—behind a 'get ready' house, at Haverford College and behind apartments—and described a mostly native, pesticide-free cut-flower CSA and related training for participants.

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"So we have, 3 spaces that we garden at consistently," said Kate Gaylor, a community mentor with Carousel Connections, describing raised beds behind a 'get ready' house, a plot at Haverford College and a plot behind apartments. Gaylor said the gardens focus on native perennials (hyssop, black-eyed Susans, mountain mint, ironweed) and produce flowers for a local cut-flower CSA.

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