The tastiest parcel of Reynolds land is out of plain sight. “It’s tucked away,” says Carolyn Taylor, standing in the community garden she helped design six years ago. “Most people don’t know it’s here.” Here is off a main road, off a beaten path, and smack dab in a meadow drenched in sunshine and in regular irrigation from a blessedly-positioned water tower. Here is where 48 Members plant, pamper, and problem-solve until it’s time to proudly pick from their 28 raised garden beds. Sometimes, they party. “Last August we took our own produce to a dude ranch in the area and had a huge potluck dinner,” says Carolyn.
Here you see golfers who don’t want to retreat to the porch for Sudoku following a morning round, parents teaching kids about nutrition, and neighbors getting to know each other.
Here you can find a variety of produce you can’t find anywhere else: Chinese green radishes, rattlesnake beans, sesame leaves, and an alphabet soup of peppers (including shishitos and lunchboxes). All of it fresh enough to eat off the stem — except the luffa which hangs off a vine before it can be hung in a shower.
Says Carolyn, “We find that food and friendships grow really well here.”
