Good Ground Heritage Garden Campaign

Sowing Seeds of Change 

The Ecological Culture Initiative is raising funds to support the Good Ground Heritage Garden at St. Joseph Villa, 81 Lynn Ave, Hampton Bays, NY.

You can help by sponsoring engraved bricks to build our wheelchair-accessible garden pathway • $100 per 4x8" brick • $150 per 8x8" brick

The Good Ground Heritage Garden provides an opportunity for folks to learn how to grow their own food and to also give back to the community by donating fresh, organic, vitamin-rich herbs and vegetables to those in need. Additionally, organic, heirloom variety seeds are collected from the garden and provided to the public for free through the Good Ground Seed Library.

Inscribe your name or dedication for posterity in our Engraved Founders Bricks (3 or 6 lines, 20 characters per line) to create a garden pathway for wheelchair-access • $100 or $150 per brick for sponsorship

How Your Donation Helps

Your donation helps covers costs of overall garden maintenance.

ECI is committed to supporting other local businesses in our initiatives and will be purchasing all our material from Riverhead Building Supply, Shinnecock Hardware, and Hampton Nursery.

If you prefer postal mail, we welcome checks payable to the "Ecological Culture Initiative" with "Good Ground Heritage Garden" or "GGHG" as a memo sent to "PO Box 1035, Hampton Bays, NY 11946"

Or contibute online using Donorbox, which offers options for Credit Card, PayPal, Apple Pay, and ACH Electronic Bank Transfers.

Whichever way you can help, ECI thanks you for your support!

Good Ground Heritage Garden Manager Doria Hughes and her assistant Emma with our garlic harvest, which was donated to the local food pantry

Marc, Rachel, & Rayna working in the Good Ground Heritage Garden - 2018

Our Fall 2018 Harvest of locally grown organic potatoes, onions, and garlic was gladly donated to the St. Rosalie’s Food Pantry in Hampton Bays

ECI Heritage Gardens groundbreaking - Nov. 25, 2017