Mother Clyde/West End Garden

About Mother Clyde/West End Garden

Previously called the West End Intergenerational Garden, the Mother Clyde Memorial West End Garden was created over ten years ago by Sister DeBorah Williams and ninety-seven year old Ms. Clyde Robinson Branson, known as “Mother Clyde.” When Mother Clyde died at the age of 101, Sister DeBorah changed the name of the garden in Mother Branson’s honor. Situated on a formerly abandoned lot once home to drug dealers and prostitution, the “urban blighted eyesore” is now the home of a community garden which supports and embodies several synergistic (REDEEM) projects, which include but are not limited to the following: A food membership co-op owned and operated by the neighborhood’s Senior Citizens where community residents can “pick and pay” for organic products of the garden. “Redeeming our Youth”(ROY), our 7 year old youth “Jr. Master Gardening, agribusiness and leadership development project. And a “National Crime Night Out” Block Party, to involve community residents and others to experience the produce, harvested, prepared, cooked, and consumed right on the garden’s grounds. Our long term goal is to acquire a “chef kitchen” to train, involve, and employ nearby residents in canning, bottling, preserving foods from the garden, and working with other community gardens in the area to establish a Community Garden/farmer’s market grocery store. Please call and order a bottle of our famous apple cider jalapeno pepper sauce; all funds used for our junior master gardener work camp.