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Cleveland, Ohio

Shalom & Tranquility Community Garden

Shalom & Tranquility Community Garden is a vibrant, holistic, alliance located in the Brooklyn Centre community of Cleveland, OH where the garden is used to educate, unify, and improve the wellness of all families, typical and atypical. In 2019 Ebonie Randle-Joiner was a participant in S.E.E.D.S Women’s Development Program, led by Cleveland city councilwoman Jasmin Santana. There, she met a fellow gardener who not only brought fresh microgreens to the cohort, but ultimately encouraged Joiner to start her own community garden. Not realizing how her life and community would change, In 2020 Randle-Joiner scoped out a vacant, blighted lot a block away from her home and applied to start a garden through the Ohio State University Agricultural Extension Program. Now, Joiner’s Garden provides food, educational opportunities, respite, and tranquility to her community. “All it takes is continual commitment,” Joiner was recently quoted saying, “and love.”

The Shalom & Tranquility Garden is the product of one woman’s determination, made possible by a community of volunteers. A mother of two special needs children in a neighborhood with limited exposure to the value of eating home-grown food, Joiner understood the garden’s potential. She realized her vision through partnerships with Ohio State University, Kings Partnerships, funding from in-kind donations and the Neighbor Up organization’s Action Grant. “It became imperative that I began to teach myself, and my community, how we can have a better quality of life together,” she said. Today, Shalom & Tranquility is “staffed” by the Super Garden Kidz, a program that teaches gardening, health and community service to kids ranging from toddlers to young adults. The Kidz meet weekly during the growing season. Many have been with Joiner since the beginning. Other garden programs include the “Literacy for Life” reading program, “Garden Church” worship services, movie nights and talent shows.

Contact
Ebonie Randle, Director
Strategies
Community farms/gardens, Land trusts / conservation, Art activism including murals, performances, photography, and videos, Community organizing and education
Environmental Justice Concerns
Lead contamination, Air pollution
501c3 Tax Deductible
No
Accepting Donation
No