For decades, Duncan Street Miracle Garden, hidden by vacant rowhouses on three sides, has provided bushels of fresh vegetables and fruits to the Broadway East community.

In the 1980s and 1990s, this was one of Baltimore’s biggest community gardens, says Lewis Sharpe, who has stewarded the land since then, giving everything raised there away for free.

Usually, Sharpe plants around $800 worth of seeds and seedlings each season, assisted by small grants and assorted community do-gooders. But this year, he didn’t plant anything, in part because he didn’t have enough people to help.

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