Edgewood Community Garden at Cherry Woods

02/16/2026

Well-meaning gardeners often harm native bees during late-winter cleanup. These six common habits destroy the pollinators you want to protect.
Cutting stems too early removes mason and leafcutter bee larvae still developing inside.
Raking bare soil destroys mining bee tunnels and crushes dormant ground-nesters.
Clearing leaf litter exposes bumblebee queens to cold snaps before they're ready.
Tilling beds in early spring kills larvae that haven't emerged from soil chambers.
Removing dead wood eliminates shelter for cavity-nesting bees that wake last.
Spreading mulch everywhere buries ground-nester exit holes and traps emerging bees.
The urge to tidy up is strong. But dormant bees need your patience more than your effort.

08/12/2025

Garden updates! 🌻

07/06/2025

Bumble bees enjoying lavender this evening!

05/06/2025

04/24/2025

Check out this photo taken at Edgewood Community Garden that was featured in the New York Times!

Taken from Kannetha Brown:

Thank you New York Times for featuring my photograph of Salina harvesting fishmint yesterday in the Sunday Times in honor of the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh last Thursday, 4/17. What an incredible honor for us to be chosen to represent our contemporary Cambodian communities!

“Last year the photographer Kannetha Brown began photographing a garden near her home in Cranston, RI, that is a gathering place (and source of fresh produce) for the local Cambodian community. Noting the 50th anniversary of the Cambodian Genocide this year, Ms. Brown said she hoped her work highlights a more joyous aspect of Cambodian life. ‘A lot of research about our community stopped when we resettled,’ she said. “Our story isn’t over yet.” -Kannetha Brown

This photo is from our ongoing project The Garden in Edgewood, which is about the Edgewood community garden in Cranston and the Ting family’s love for gardening here for many years. Mr. Chan Ting says his love for gardening stems from memories of his father, a farmer in Cambodia. Fishmint is part of Khmai cuisine and takes over the garden!

“As we close out the Cambodian New Year, I am reminded of how nature and the beginning of the year are connected. My dad and I recently started gardening again, and it reminded me of how it is intuitive with how he farmed with his dad, because at this time of year in Cambodia, this would be harvest season. The aroma of different herbs arose as we were tilling the soil and I knew we were back into the swing of gardening. These photos depict a longstanding tradition in Cambodian culture.” -Salina Ting

Thank you Kerr Cirilo, New York Times Photo Editor, for the opportunity. We are blessed!

If you would like to follow Kannetha Brown's ongoing project, you may visit www.kannethabrown.com

03/14/2025

Coming up— Join the Leica Gallery Boston on Saturday, March 22nd from 12-2PM for an artist talk with the incredibly talented photographer, Kannetha Brown.

Kannetha is a Cambodian-American photographer from Providence, Rhode Island. Her mother and grandmother are refugees of the Cambodian Genocide (Khmer Rouge Regime), and her grandfather was a military official under Prime Minister Lon Nol. Her work explores intergenerational trauma, and lived histories of survival and kinship in her local community. Her analog practice re-contextualizes the Khmer Rouge’s oppressive photographs, and resists the erasure of Cambodian heritage caused by the Khmer Rouge, and amnesia about America’s involvement.

This image comes from Kannetha’s series ‘The Garden in Edgewood.’ She writes: “Chan Ting was one of my mom’s former patients. Before I learned this, his children Sivchristen, Peter, and Salina and her daughter Sophia, were already good friends of mine. Gardening is a popular tradition for many Cambodians, particularly elders like Mr. Ting, who has a plot next to Salina at the Edgewood Community Garden. A reclaimed parking lot behind Edgewood Highland Elementary School, the garden is a few minutes from my current home in Cranston, Rhode Island, where the majority of Cambodians live. Every year, since Sophia was small, the Tings have tended to their plots. Without my own grandfather, I look to Mr. Ting as what my grandpa could be like, and I look to Sophia as the younger version of me.”

Register for the event via the link in our bio. We can’t wait to see you there!