Grow Good News

Growing Food. Growing Knowledge. Growing Community.

Grow Good News is Good News Hagerstown’s developing community garden hub—a coordinated network designed to support community gardens, youth environmental programs, pollinator projects, and neighborhood growing spaces across Hagerstown.

Rather than every school, neighborhood, or organization having to create a garden program alone, Grow Good News will help connect participating sites with shared resources, volunteers, education, transportation, donated materials, and practical support.

Our Vision

We envision a community where children can learn by planting seeds, families can help grow fresh food, pollinators can find safe habitats, and neighborhoods can come together around spaces that are healthy, productive, and beautiful.

Each participating garden or organization can maintain its own identity and leadership while benefiting from a larger support network coordinated by Good News Hagerstown.

What the Hub Can Provide

As resources and partnerships grow, Grow Good News will work to provide:

• Garden planning and startup assistance
• Shared tools and gardening equipment
• Plants, seeds, soil, compost, and other materials
• Volunteer recruitment and coordinated workdays
• Youth gardening and environmental education
• Pollinator and native-plant projects
• Seasonal planting and maintenance guidance
• Harvest support and connections to community food programs
• Transportation of supplies through our Good News on the Go truck
• Connections among schools, nonprofits, neighborhoods, businesses, and experienced gardeners

Why It Matters

Community gardens can do much more than produce vegetables. They can create safe places for neighbors to work together, introduce children to nature, improve access to healthy food, support pollinators, beautify overlooked spaces, and provide meaningful volunteer opportunities.

Grow Good News will help turn individual projects into a stronger and more sustainable community-wide effort.

Help Us Grow the Hub

We are currently building the partnerships, equipment, funding, and volunteer base needed to develop Grow Good News responsibly.

You can help by:

• Volunteering at a garden or community workday
• Sponsoring a garden, youth class, or growing season
• Donating tools, soil, plants, seeds, lumber, or equipment
• Offering professional gardening or environmental expertise
• Connecting your school, neighborhood, nonprofit, or business with the hub
• Supporting transportation, storage, and program expenses

Whether you have a garden, want to start one, can teach a skill, or simply want to help your community grow, there is a place for you in Grow Good News.

Let’s grow more than gardens. Let’s Grow Good News.