And volunteering at the community garden “is a way to do it.” “I was like, ‘I want to meet people,’” she said. She said she’d never had a garden before she and her husband purchased their home in the Sage subdivision last October. The community garden has prompted several other residents, including Judy Turner, to do the same. “I’ve never gardened, and this has inspired me to have my own garden,” Garcia said. She and her fiancé purchased their first home and moved in last fall, and they often stop by the garden in the afternoon, she said, to water the recently sprouted crops.

The planters were “adopted” by several Light Farms subdivisions.Ī “salsa garden,” complete with several varieties of pepper and tomato plants, is being tended to by residents of the Blue Stem neighborhood.Ĭarmen Garcia is one of them. Within an hour, she said, more than a dozen people had offered up their green thumbs for assistance. “Our homeowners are out in their front yards, the kids are playing … and this is just another avenue for people to enjoy each other.”Ībout a month ago, Bowers sent an email to Light Farms residents in search of volunteers to help plant and tend to the garden. The master-planned community is “very social,” Community Manager Deborah Bowers said. A half-dozen raised planter boxes were built in the Sage subdivision by Light Farms developer Republic Property Group as an amenity for residents.

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