The Goucher Community Garden provides shared resources for students and Edenwald neighbors to grow fresh, sustainable produce, herbs, and flowers. We offer gardening guidance and seasonal workshops to support growers of all experience levels. Volunteers will participate in seasonal planning/planting, communal watering, and volunteer maintenance and harvest-sharing. Please contact the Goucher College student leadership team (community@goucher.edu) to get involved or check our instagram feed (@gardeningatgoucher) for upcoming volunteer events.

Currently, all plots are shared and no one individual has ownership of individual garden beds. Please consult with the student leadership team before harvesting or planting anything additional.

If you have suggestions on things to plant, or topics for workshops, please contact us at community@goucher.edu.

Mission Statement

Through community connections, environmental education, and a commitment to practices grounded in both, the Goucher Community Garden fosters meaningful relationships, promotes sustainable stewardship, and supports the college’s mission to inspire global changemakers.

The Goucher Community Garden is a student-led initiative under the Office of Community-Based Learning. Established to provide a space for environmental education, community collaboration, and a “third space” for connection, the garden welcomes and encourages community involvement and is intentionally designed using universal design principles to ensure accessibility for people of all ages and abilities. We strive to cultivate a garden culture grounded in the acceptance and uplifting of all identities and capabilities.

Land Acknowledgement

We/I acknowledge that Goucher College currently occupies land within the geographic sphere of influence of the Susquehannock Tribe. They maintained a kinship with the land and believed that the land held no boundaries or ownership by Indigenous peoples. 

We/I acknowledge that settler colonists and colonial structures are responsible for the displacement and genocide of Indigenous peoples through physical violence, forced removals, and Indigenous erasure. Refugees from genocided tribes formed new kinship relationships within neighboring tribes as a method of survival. While there are no Susquehannock polities today, Susquehannock peoples maintain their kinship, traditions, and histories from within neighboring tribes and maintain a vital kinship relationship with the Susquehanna River.

We/I acknowledge that we are uninvited guests currently occupying the ancestral homelands of the Susquehannock Tribe, as the result of broken treaties.

We/I acknowledge the wisdom of the Susquehannock Tribe, the Piscataway Indian Nation, the Piscataway Conoy Tribe, and the Choptico Band of Indians who graciously provided their time, histories, and knowledge to inform this land acknowledgement and educate the settler mindset. We recognize that the Cedarville Band of the Piscataway Indians also maintains a kinship with the land and has knowledge of histories, traditions, and cultures.

We/I acknowledge the commitment that Goucher College has made to understand and repair the wrongs of the past. The college is dedicated to moving forward and establishing meaningful and authentic relationships with Indigenous communities. This statement is a step in combatting Indigenous erasure and negative stereotypes.