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There are at least a dozen ways to enter Hazel Wright’s Waynesboro garden.

You can reach it through an adjoining backyard, where she pulled up part of a hedge so neighboring children could have their own special gateway.

“I once had a sign that said ‘Patrick and Kelly’s lane,’ ” she said. “That was to make sure they knew they were welcome anytime.”

More than a dozen people, some wearing orange protective gear, pulled rakes and shovels from a dingy shopping cart and started working on a parched patch of land along a busy off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway.

Rajeswari Sasikumar has planted a backyard garden of tomatoes, eggplants, okra and peppers for three years now.