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Twenty-four adult and youth volunteers from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County’s<\/a>\u00a0Kahlert Leadership Academy visited the Hampstead Community Garden<\/a> Friday to maintain garden beds, including reattaching loose boards and weeding, watering and harvesting plants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The community garden began its first planting season in May. Founder Jennifer Lleras said produce grown there is donated to those in need.<\/p>\n

Lleras said a group of regular weekly volunteers helps at the garden, and she hopes to have more organizations volunteer there. That would help her tackle a long project wish list, which includes building a shed, implementing a rainwater collection system, creating an area for composting, and installing a sign and seating areas.<\/p>\n

“I’m looking for more opportunities to get bigger groups of people involved,” Lleras said. “There are some bigger projects that we have in mind, but we just don’t have the funding or the amount of volunteers needed to really get behind those projects.”<\/p>\n

\"Jennifer
Jennifer Lleras, founder of the new 6,300 square-foot community garden in Hampstead. (Jeffrey F. Bill\/Staff)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County’s marketing director Erin Bishop said the Kahlert Leadership Academy<\/a> is a weeklong summer academy for middle- and high-school students that teaches participants about how to be positive community leaders.<\/p>\n

“Our youth had the chance to work side by side, get their hands dirty, and see the difference they can make when they give back,” Bishop said. “That\u2019s what real leadership is all about.”<\/p>\n

Have a news tip? Contact Kat Mauser at kmauser@baltsun.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-four adult and youth volunteers from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County’s\u00a0Kahlert Leadership Academy visited the Hampstead Community Garden Friday to maintain garden beds, including reattaching loose boards and weeding, watering and harvesting plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":11579553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-26T10:00:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"61587005-5029-4a29-b866-d503c3272d7a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-26T10:00:48Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AYVhwBVApSim4ZtUDwycteg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"subheadline":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,80,76],"tags":[],"feature":[],"location":[301,223],"type-of-work":[],"coauthors":[26635],"class_list":["post-11576525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carroll-county-times","category-cct-latest-headlines","category-cct-news","location-carroll-county","location-maryland"],"post_status":"","edit_last":0,"edit_lock":0,"highlights":"","original_byline":"","original_canonical":"","original_category":"","original_email":"","original_id":0,"original_pubdate":"","original_source":"","primary_section":"75","primary_tag":0,"print_workflow_body":{"deck_headline":"","print_title":"Hampstead garden gets a hand from Boys and Girls Clubs of Carroll County","print_subheadline":"","print_priority":"","print_placement":"cover","print_planned_ready":"","print_pub_date":"","print_slug":"CCT-L-HAMPSTEADCOMMUNITYGARDEN-0721","print_budget_line":"","print_excerpt":"Twenty-four adult and youth volunteers from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County's\u00a0Kahlert Leadership Academy visited the Hampstead Community Garden Friday to maintain garden beds, including reattaching loose boards and weeding, watering and harvesting plants.","print_notes":"","photo_limits":"Photo limits are: 1 featured image, 5 featured gallery images, 5 embedded gallery images and 5 in-article embedded images. Articles that exceed these limits will not export. Please adjust images to reflect these limits.","print_featured_gallery_richtext":"","print_inline_galleries_richtext":"","print_inline_images_richtext":"[caption id=\"attachment_10986936\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"2400\"]\"Jennifer Jennifer Lleras, founder of the new 6,300 square-foot community garden in Hampstead. (Jeffrey F. Bill\/Staff)[\/caption]

[cq comment=\"The Boys & Girls Club is a group that hasn't worked with the community garden before, Lleras said, but she's excited for the group to travel from Westminster to volunteer. She hopes to attract other large groups and businesses from in and around the area to do the same. \"They're not familiar with the garden, and it doesn't necessarily impact them directly,\" Lleras said. \"We just really appreciate the fact that they're coming out of their area to help us take care of ours over here.\"\" ]<\/p>","print_content":"

Twenty-four adult and youth volunteers from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County's<\/a>\u00a0Kahlert Leadership Academy visited the Hampstead Community Garden<\/a> Friday to maintain garden beds, including reattaching loose boards and weeding, watering and harvesting plants<\/a>.<\/p>

The community garden began its first planting season in May. Founder Jennifer Lleras said produce grown there is donated to those in need.<\/p>

Lleras said a group of regular weekly volunteers helps at the garden, and she hopes to have more organizations volunteer there. That would help her tackle a long project wish list, which includes building a shed, implementing a rainwater collection system, creating an area for composting, and installing a sign and seating areas.<\/p>

\"I'm looking for more opportunities to get bigger groups of people involved,\" Lleras said. \"There are some bigger projects that we have in mind, but we just don't have the funding or the amount of volunteers needed to really get behind those projects.\"<\/p>

Boys & Girls Clubs of Carroll County's marketing director Erin Bishop said the Kahlert Leadership Academy<\/a> is a weeklong summer academy for middle- and high-school students that teaches participants about how to be positive community leaders.<\/p>

\"Our youth had the chance to work side by side, get their hands dirty, and see the difference they can make when they give back,\" Bishop said. \"That\u2019s what real leadership is all about.\"<\/p>

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