Mrs. Niño's Garden

Mrs. Niño's Garden Mrs. Niño's Garden is an educational public garden on the westside of South Bend.

It honors the founder of El Campito Child Development Center and is a place where children, plants, and community grow together.

10/09/2024

"She sounds almost apocryphal: Concepcion Niño. A woman whose last name means “child” co-founded a childcare center in South Bend, Indiana, to care for the children of farm workers. As a migrant worker, she had seen small children brought to the agricultural fields in Texas by parents who lacked childcare, and in South Bend she wanted to ensure that didn’t happen. So in 1970 she and her husband, Ignacio, along with some friends, started a childcare center in her home and named it “little field”—El Campito.

Fifty years later, field and little field reunited when El Campito Child Development Center partnered with the Near Westside Neighborhood Organization to turn a vacant lot at the corner of Thomas and Laurel streets into an educational and communal garden. The center’s teachers and staff asked that the garden be named after their founder. It would be a place where people and plants can grow together." - Andrea Crawford

Read more about Mrs. Niño's Garden in the latest issue of Edible Michiana or by clicking here:
https://ediblemichiana.ediblecommunities.com/food-thought/what-s-old-new

The native perennials are coming up and a fresh layer of compost  is going down. It's high spring and the beginning of o...
05/18/2024

The native perennials are coming up and a fresh layer of compost is going down. It's high spring and the beginning of our fifth growing season. All are invited to help plant seeds — or just come check out the zizia aurea and baptisia australis while they're in bloom.

Neighbors are in the garden every Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon.

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South Bend, IN
46601

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