Community Garden
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
Literally a shared garden maintained by a community, and metaphorically a shared space or project that thrives through distributed care and stewardship. In culture discussions the phrase is often used to evoke collective ownership and visible mutual effort.
In plain English: A shared space or project that many people help maintain together.
Example: "They talked about the docs repo like a community garden: if only one person weeded it, eventually the whole thing became unusable."