Community Spotlight: Bri'Anna Moore

Community Spotlight: Bri’anna Moore (@lanoirede.jpg)

Photo by Nancy Treuber

Bri’anna joined Maple Street Community Garden in spring 2023, and within minutes of knowing her you realize she’s the type of person who doesn’t just join something, she makes it better. She found her footing here after seven years in Manhattan and says, “It’s helped me feel really rooted to my neighborhood. I really feel like I have a community here in large part due to the garden. It’s not uncommon for me to run into someone I know from the garden while bopping around the neighborhood.”

She’s not kidding. If you’ve ever bumped into her on Rogers or Flatbush, you know Bri’anna’s got a way of making the neighborhood feel smaller in the best possible way.

Favorite memory? A field trip with the gardening committee to Willow Wisp Farm in Pennsylvania, because sometimes you need to trade sirens for silence and bond over fresh air.

She’s also the mastermind behind our first-ever MSCG Corn Harvest. Sure, she jokes that her role was “buying the seeds,” but don’t let that fool you. Turning a random thought into a full-blown potluck with corn-themed dishes and community creativity? That’s peak Bri’anna. She dreams it, proposes it, and suddenly the whole garden is on board.

And if you’ve seen this author’s kid running around in his custom MSCG corn harvest hat, that’s Bri’anna too—she stitched it herself, embroidery needle in hand. It’s the perfect example of what she brings to the garden: creativity, care, and community woven together.

Written by Jess Frost, Photos by Nancy Treuber

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