Urban gardens are often used to improve their surrounding neighborhoods. Food provision is an obvious benefit, but what else? How do these gardens, maintained by a community, provide more than food? Urban gardens have positive impacts on several factors of the overall mental well-being of their gardeners. Personal satisfaction, relaxation, creativity outlets, and social opportunities are just a few ways a community can be impacted by a productive urban garden (Dunnett and Qasim). Our research into how the presence of the peach tree may affect the bacterial biodiversity of the urban garden's soil as compared to the presence of a tomato plant does more than producing a couple more peaches or tomatoes per year. Small bits of information make up large bodies of research. The findings from this entire semester's class, which we are a small yet important piece of, will collectively go to improve this urban garden. In turn, our findings will each play a role in enhancing the garden's efficiency and growing methods, allowing it to continue to boost the mental and physical health of its surrounding community in Lafayette, Indiana and in other urban gardens around the country and world that may also benefit from our work.