Common Ground of Eastern North Carolina, Inc.

Common Ground of Eastern North Carolina, Inc. Growing whole food, whole people and whole communities in Greene, Jones and Lenoir counties

CURRENT PROJECT: restoring a former flood buyout property located in a food desert in east Kinston. We are building a food park - a community green space for outdoor recreation and food production. We invite everyone to participate in our community-based effort to create a food park. You can grow food by joining the group of gardeners at our community garden, learn beekeeping with others at our n

ew community apiary, or help care for our heirloom fruit orchard and grapevine. We also need help with our newest food park project: building a quarter-mile walking trail. Plenty of activities to choose from; growing community while enjoying the outdoors!

🌼 If you're in our part of town, swing by to admire the wildflower meadow! Located off of Vernon Avenue along Hwy 11--ju...
05/13/2026

🌼 If you're in our part of town, swing by to admire the wildflower meadow!
Located off of Vernon Avenue along Hwy 11--just past the baseball stadium.

The rain drops sure are a welcome sight! 🌧 We're glad the forecast finally panned out and hope the rest of the rain in t...
04/26/2026

The rain drops sure are a welcome sight! 🌧
We're glad the forecast finally panned out and hope the rest of the rain in the near forecast comes through too to knock back some of this drought 🏜
How are your seedlings faring this Spring?

Image: young pepper and tomato plants in red plastic cups, ready to be planted 🍅 🌶

04/09/2026

Seeds are started and sprouting over at the garden! We look forward to seeing familiar faces at our work day this weekend and hope to meet some more folks from the community 🌱

Come see what we have growing and going on at Kinston's Community Garden--on Vernon Ave behind Tony's Friendly Market
Garden Work Day - April 2026

Garden Bed Lasagna 🍝 We use raised garden beds at our community garden to grow most of our produce 🍅 Those big shiny tub...
03/24/2026

Garden Bed Lasagna 🍝
We use raised garden beds at our community garden to grow most of our produce 🍅
Those big shiny tubs aren't filled from bottom to brim with just soil--they're intentionally layered 🥞
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03/23/2026

What's the buzz?
Common Ground is not only a community garden, but also an apiary 🐝🍯
Last week, volunteers noted the bees were uncharacteristically active.
Thankfully bee keeper, Lee, was on hand to help the bees and provide some sweet information 🍯 about our busy pollinator pals 🐝

💛The bees may have outgrown their hive and were swarming, going to search for a new space.
😱The is looks like a startling frenzy, but Lee explained the bees are typically docile while swarming.
🏠 Lee provided the bees with a new space, then collected the swarm to deposit in the hive.
👸 Thankfully it appears the queen was successfully caught and the bees are settling into their new space (Lee has since provided a larger hive than the one shown during the swarm capture).

03/20/2026

We have above normal temperatures for the first day of spring, and high temperatures will continue to increase through the weekend.

We're approaching last ❄️ frost date so things are moving into higher gear around the garden ⚙️ Here we've repurposed fe...
03/19/2026

We're approaching last ❄️ frost date so things are moving into higher gear around the garden ⚙️
Here we've repurposed fencing into a trellis to support climbing veggies this Spring 🫛

Thank you, Karla G., for thinking to pass on these pots/planters to Common Ground! Whether its through volunteering, sha...
03/17/2026

Thank you, Karla G., for thinking to pass on these pots/planters to Common Ground!

Whether its through volunteering, sharing word, or thinking of the garden for passing on supplies like this, we are grateful for involvement from our community and look forward to continuing to grow together 🌱

It was great to see everyone at the garden this morning! So nice to gather with old garden friends and meet some new one...
03/14/2026

It was great to see everyone at the garden this morning! So nice to gather with old garden friends and meet some new ones.

We:
👋Toured new neighbor friends through Common Ground of Eastern North Carolina, Inc.
🌾Mowed walkways and raised bed area
💜Cleaned up American Beauty Bush
🌿Cleaned herb beds
🌼Tended to wildflower field
🤲Discussed plans for food to grow this season

🤤 More sweet, fresh figs from our trees in the orchard along Hwy 11!🌳These fig trees are about 10 years old and have bee...
09/25/2025

🤤 More sweet, fresh figs from our trees in the orchard along Hwy 11!
🌳These fig trees are about 10 years old and have been generous with their fig production.

🤞Hopefully we will see even more in the next few years from our newly planted figs along E Vernon.

🌭Come check it out during our Community Cookout 🌭 Common Ground - Kinston, NC on October 12th!

👏Thank you to volunteer Larry for the donation of the newly planted fig trees

Address

807 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard
Kinston, NC
28501

Telephone

+12525602509

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