The garden sits along the East Parade Avenue edge of the school grounds, facing Martin Luther King Jr. Park, originally designed in 1871 as The Parade by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as the eastern anchor of Buffalo's park system. The building at 820 Northampton Street has served East Side families for nearly a century, opening as East High School in 1927 and continuing today as East Community High School, which launched in 2016 with a mission rooted in community partnership. The raised beds on the East Parade side predate our engagement and reflect an earlier school gardening effort from that transition era, left dormant in recent years. In 2026, East Side Stewards began working with Deoniss Jackson, Say Yes Buffalo Coordinator at East Community High School, to revitalize the garden through a twice-weekly Summer Garden Club engaging students from the MLK Park neighborhood and beyond. Together we are cultivating the site as a living classroom where young people build knowledge and skill in horticulture, urban agriculture, community, and their relationship with the natural world.