Our Story

Beauty’s Community Garden is located in Independence Heights–the first African American municipality in Texas and one of 40 food deserts in Houston.

Purchased property in 1926 by her grandparents, Ernest and Beauty Leno, Yvette Leno later inherited the land. In 1991, a devastating fire destroyed the family’s homestead. In 2012, Yvette repurposed the land into a community garden she named after her grandmother, “Beauty.”

Our Garden Space

Today, Beauty’s Community Garden is growing into the vision Yvette imagined, a place for community members to come together to access and learn about healthy whole foods they can plant. The garden is a natural place to plant roots and connect the benefits of choosing healthy foods by learning about nutrition and its impact on a person’s physical and mental well-being.

Beauty's Community Garden runs over 6,000 square feet with a 20 ft container. The garden features community-connected spaces where volunteers support the garden bi-weekly, and a variety of fresh produce and herbs are grown and sustained.

Impact Taking Root

We provide community service hours and hands-on gardening clinics with our community partners, businesses, schools, and community groups within the garden and throughout the larger Houston community.

Mothers in Bloom

FREE to attend, RSVP required. Spots are limited. Join us in nurturing a space that gives back to families year-round.