GARDENS IN WACO, TEXAS

We are always creating garden spaces across Waco. Thanks to our partners, City of Waco Parks and Recreation, we are able to beautify our city in multiple ways.

Thanks to our donors, sponsors, and grants, we’ve been able to establish several gardens around Waco, Texas!

Interested in sponsoring a new garden? Reach out to us!

Tree Plantings

We are a proud certified Tree City USA, community, and this is all thanks to our incredible Parks and Recreations Team. We are grateful to partner with our city for more tree plantings in public parks.

We plant dozens of trees throughout the year alongside City of Waco Parks and Recreation, who is constantly maintaining and replacing trees that have suffered environmental disasters.

GARDENS

City of Waco Police Department Peace Garden
Opened: October 2022
Thanks to our kind donors, Tevita and Makenzie Asisi, we established a peaceful place for our first responders to take a break, debrief, and enjoy lunch outdoors in this refreshed garden area. We had several rounds of volunteers work diligently and included a local artist to install a mural for the area.

This space is home to several natives, drought tolerant, trees, and shade-loving plants.

Bledsoe-Miller Children’s Learning Garden
Opened: October 2023

Thanks to the Keep Texas Beautiful and H-E-B Green Bag Grant, we were able to create an outdoor STEM/STEAM learning garden for our children to see, smell, and taste through a walkthrough space of native, drought tolerant, and pollinator plants.

This space is built with intention to create environmental education for the soon-to-be established STEAM/STEM Center at Bledsoe-Miller Community Center.

The space also supports our local flora with pollinators and monarchs, bringing them to the area for necessary nutrition!

Interested in building a native, drought tolerant, and pollinator garden? Visit here for resources!

Garrison Street Garden: A Creating Green Neighborhoods Project
Opened: TBA, actively being worked on

The National Women in Agriculture have had this community garden for several years, and thanks to a Keep Texas Beautiful and H-E-B grant, a Keep America Beautiful MLK grant, and sponsorship from Baylor University Solid Gold Neighbor, we have partnered with them to help elevate and expand their garden. This space is a gathering point for East Wacoans to utilize the space for their own garden and Rapoport Academy’s educational outdoor classroom.