• Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

  • Mamie's Backyard Garden

    Honoring family history. Growing food for the community.

To plant a garden is act of faith.

- Welcome to Mamie's Backyard Garden! -
My name is Ms. Diane C. Small. My mother's name was Mamie. This garden is created in honor of her and all my family. This is a short history. What's Happening in the Garden: See the photos here -Garden clean-up and harvesting into October -Thankful for friends helping with the harvest -Gardening into the dark -The Harvest is on -Ms. Diane in the news -Ms. Diane visits the UW South Madison Partnership Celebration -Collards Collards Collards! -8/1 Kids from the Bridge Lake Point Waunona Neighborhood Center visit the Mamie's Backyard Garden -7/30 THANK YOU volunteers! -7/27 Fried Green Tomatoes -7/18 A new shed! Thank you Andre -7/9 MORE collards -7/1 LOTS of collards to pick and give away -6/27 Planting and pulling weeds until 9:15 PM -6/20 First harvest of Collards -Diane celebrates 67 years! -6/10 The Garden is OPEN -Friends and Neighbors help plant the garden - Mamie's Garden has a new sign! - 2022 Garden Planting has begun! 149 Collards have been planted. Herbs generously donated from Badger Rock planted. Thank you Sarah, Issac and Dr Dorothy. Check out photos and press from 2020 and 2021 Ms. Diane in the Wisconsin State Journal! Facebook Live with Ms. Diane! THANK YOU FAMILY & VOLUNTEERS! Photos from Mamie's Backyard Garden Second Annual Opening Celebration June 13, 2021 Read what the Cap Times had to say about Mamie's Backyard Garden! 2021 Garden Photos2020 Garden Story & Photos
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What we are growing in 2022

- Vegetables -
Cucumbers

Lettuce

Radishes

Carrots

Collard Greens

Tomatoes

Zucchini

Broccoli

Green Beans