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Carnes Garden will be a varied and balanced environment where lessons about science learned in the classroom can come alive for the students.

nts that are attractive to butterflies, bees and other pollinators. Carnes Garden will be a varied and balanced environment where lessons about science in the classrooms and textbooks can come alive for the students at Carnes Elementary. It will be a beautiful place too where students, teachers, parents, neighbors and volunteers will enjoy being together

We started Carnes Garden with funds from a successful project through ioby “in our back yards.” It is only happening because of the generosity of our many donors. Much of our success is because of support from St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Also, support from ProLogis corporation is helping us fulfill our vision for Carnes Garden. Clean Memphis continues to be a great help with volunteers, tools, gloves and water. The children of Carnes Elementary helps us put in good soil, plants and water to help them grow. The enthusiasm they show when they come to help us reminds us of why Carnes Garden is such an important place. Principal, Renetta Sanders and science teacher, Mark Owens can only be described as awesome. The purpose of this page is to tie together the donors, volunteers, school supporters and everyone else involved with Carnes Garden. Here we can share our images from past and future events and out ideas for the future.

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916 J. W. Williams Lane
Memphis, TN
38105

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Carnes Garden East

Mary Baker and I (Cameron) sought to improve Canes Gardens East's chances to weather the intense summer heat by putting soaker hoses throughout the vegetable portion of the garden.The garden is doing great and we hope the regular deep soaking keeps it that way till harvest...prayers and best wishes are welcomed. If you get the opportunity, drop by to see the garden located across the street from west end of the now closed Carnes Elementary School located on J.W. Williams just a couple hundred yards west from the corner of Ayers and J.W. Williams...frontage signs are displayed at the garden's entarance...Enjoy the beauty.

March 5th at Carnes Garden

Another cute video by Cameron Frechette. Since the video James tidied up around the raised beds with the weed eater. Yesterday we scattered bone meal in the edge of the woods garden to encourage growth, blooms and berries on the mostly native plants we have put in there. In this video you can see the picnic table built by James's brother Al Alsobrook so now we have a nice place to rest and refresh. We have many events scheduled in Carnes Garden this season including building a garden fence and a mural. We will post a Community Calendar soon listing our events planned in Carnes Garden and the surrounding neighborhood.

Bridges at Carnes Garden today

I didn't have a chance to take pics while the wonderful Bridges volunteers were at Carnes Garden today. Then Cameron told me he took this video. It says it all.

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Our Story

Carnes Garden is right across the street from Carnes Elementary School which is located at the southeast corner of J W Williams Avenue and Ayers Street just north of the medical center. We call this garden a teaching garden because of the connection to the environmental science curriculum at Carnes Elementary School. We have already put in many plants that are native to this area and flowering plants that are attractive to butterflies, bees and other pollinators. Carnes Garden will be a varied and balanced environment where lessons about science in the classrooms and textbooks can come alive for the students at Carnes Elementary. It will be a beautiful place too where students, teachers, parents, neighbors and volunteers will enjoy being together We started Carnes Garden with funds from a successful project through ioby “in our back yards.” It is only happening because of the generosity of our many donors. Much of our success is because of support from St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Since we began Carnes Garden our partners, supporters and volunteers have grown tremendously. We are thankful for the support of the people of Carnes neighborhood, Clean Memphis, Memphis City Beautiful continues to be a great help with volunteers, tools, gloves and water. Our many other partners include Memphis Medical District Collaborative, Community Redevelopment Agency, Compost Fairy, West TN Urban Forestry Council, Memphis Tilth and many other organizations and individuals. The children of Carnes Elementary helped us put in good soil, plants and water to help them grow. The enthusiasm they showed when they came to help us reminds us of why Carnes Garden is such an important place. While the school was closed a couple of years ago, we are optimistic that another school or neighborhood supporting use will want to locate there in the near future. The purpose of this page is to tie together the partners, volunteers, school supporters and everyone else involved with Carnes Garden. Here we can share our images from past and future events and our ideas for the future.