The Filbert Street Garden’s supporters brought their “A game” to Friday’s meeting about city plans to possibly take their one-acre patch of carefully-tended space in Curtis Bay and use it for a Department of Public Works water pumping station.

They showed photos of children and adults enjoying the garden, located atop a hill in working-class South Baltimore. They walked through a breakdown of the $60,000 that’s been invested in sheds, coops, an irrigation system and more over the past decade.

They brought exhibits – jars of honey from the garden’s 20 hives and a basket of ducklings soon to join the Filbert Street menagerie. They noted that the space accommodates 40 gardeners, while the ducks and chickens produce 4,200 eggs a year.

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