Emporia Match Day is coming November 18!
Art goes outside!
Good Way Gardens is a community arts group that helps people connect with nature through art.
Good Way Sundays are outdoor concerts that happen on the first Sunday of every month at the Richard Howe House, located at 315 E Broadway, Emporia, KS. The Lyon County History Center kindly shares this space with us.
These events are free, family-friendly, and open to everyone. You can enjoy live music, participate in hands-on art projects, and enjoy the 15 acres of tallgrass prairie on the property.
We also have a community garden on-site where people can learn about native plants and how to grow them in their own backyards.
Our Mission
Good Way Gardens was founded in 2023 by Elexa Dawson to combine her love for music, land, and community organizing, in pursuit of what she calls in Potawatomi mno bmadzewen, life lived in a good way.
Good Way Gardens’ mission is to produce family-friendly, accessible events and cultivate a garden venue, with big-picture goals of connecting people to their roots in the earth and creating a culture of sustainability in Emporia.
Art thrives in reciprocal relationships with the natural world. Good Way believes it is the right and responsibility of all beings to return to the earth for our original instructions as people, to live in a way that respects all life. By combining plants and music, Good Way Gardens offers the community a venue for connection to land through arts.
Garden
We're raising native vegetable varieties, prairie, and pollinator plants for our on-site garden and distribution to our community partners.
Events
Community-centered, all-ages entertainment, including live music, arts, and land-based activities. Always looking for partnerships!
Join us at the Howe House
Good Way has partnered with the Lyon County Historical Center to bring gardens and outdoor community arts activities to the Howe House at 315 E Logan Ave in Emporia, Kansas almost always each first Sunday of each month, March through October.
Our Community Supporters
Good Way Gardens is a fund of Emporia Community Foundation
The Emporia Community Foundation (ECF) connects the diverse citizens and communities of Lyon and its six contiguous counties through the charitable actions of a variety of funds established for the purpose of bettering the lives of individuals within its communities. As a 501c3 Foundation, the ECF continues the traditional Kansas heritage of providing nonprofit service and supporting the charitable giving requests of donors who wish to enrich the quality of life of local citizens. ECF represents the Kansas counties of Lyon, Chase, Greenwood, Morris, Osage, Coffey and Wabaunsee.