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Garden: Vancouver City Hall Community Garden
On March 4, Mayor Gregor Robertson announced that a portion of City Hall lawn will be converted into a community garden. The idea to grow local food on the grounds of City Hall is the first “Quick Start” recommendation to come from the Greenest City Action Team. This announcement is a symbol of the City’s commitment to develop 2010 community garden plots by 2010, as an Olympic legacy.
Garden: Edith Morley Park Community Garden
The Community Garden is located at Edith Morley Park, 615 Campbell Technology Parkway. The approximate ½ acre garden site has 39 - 10x20 garden plots. Community garden plots are available for Campbell residents who want to have a garden to plant vegetables, herbs or flowers, but don't have a suitable site where they live. Plots are issued on a year-to-year and first-come-first served basis, with a limit of one plot per family. There is a $30.00 annual fee. This covers watering costs and upkeep of the garden. Currently, there is a waiting list. If you would like to be placed on the waiting list, please contact Diana Johnson at (408) 866-2145 between the hours of 7:00 AM and 3:30 PM Monday thru Friday, or email gardens@cityofcampbell.com .
Garden: Citizen Schools at Campbell Middle School Gar
A garden planted by 5th, 6th, & 7th-graders at Campbell Middle School with the assistance of a community volunteer working in partnership with the Citizen Schools after school program. The onions are doing the best...
Garden: Apartment Garden
My apartment building's community planting ground. Not much, but hopefully someday it will be.
Garden: Banksville Community Garden
The drivers who travel along Rt 279 Parkway West have a special treat outside their window: a beautiful garden created by selfless volunteers. Instead of having chip bags, beer cans, and cigarette butts to keep them company as they drive they now have Marigold bonanza orange, Rudbeckia prairie sun, Salvia victoria blue, Zinnia state fair mix.
Garden: Oakland Community Garden
The legendary Carnegie Museum now has a beautiful garden, plotted and planted by volunteers, along side it. Marigold first lady, Vinca sun devil extreme orchid are the flowers planted.
Garden: Herb Garden on Arleta Avenue
The Herb Garden on Arleta Avenue is one of five adjacent thematic parks that comprise the ambitious Visitation Valley Greenway Project. In its entirety, the Greenway functions as an outdoor classroom and recreation area beautifying the landscape and uniting the diverse groups and generations of Visitacion Valley. This parkland incorporates a native plant garden, children's play garden, various fruit and street trees, public art made by school children and community members, agricultural crops, herb gardens, a Senior Pavilion, job training, and horticultural classes.
Garden: Parramore Community Garden
This community plot has rallied together a community and produced some romaine lettuce in the process. Located in Parramore, FL, this garden has vegetables of all varieties.
Garden: Rose Circle Community Garden
In Atlanta, residents around the Rose Circle area have a place to grow their own produce: the Rose Circle community garden. In 2007, squash blossom, pumpkin, zucchini, tomatoes, cabbage, bean and cabbage plants, fennel, herbs and flowers, tall vines growing on trellises, and various garden beds were grown in their little piece of earth.
Garden: East Dallas Community Garden
The East Dallas Community, made up of Cambodian and Lao gardeners, grow vegetables, and then sell them to make up for the cost of tools, soil, and all the other expenses. Many times, its the money issues that can dissolve a community garden. These gardeners have put some thought into how a community garden works, and have divised a successful plan.
Garden: George Wyant Community Garden
George Wyant Community Garden is a place for the residents of Phoenix, AZ to harvest whatever they like. The Phoenix Police Department has been supporting the George Wyant Community Garden by ways of grants. Without these grants the garden would not be able to buy tools, etc.
Garden: Churchill Community Garden
The Churchill community garden serves three purposes: school garden, community garden, and food bank garden. Churchill is the collaborative brainchild of several organizations in Eugene. The school district owns the land and provides wate; the Churchill Area Neighbors and the City of Eugene helped start the garden in 2001; and FOOD for lane county, the local food bank; manages the 1 acre garden, coordinates the 58 plots and gather together the volunteers to collect the beautiful, organic produce they grow. It's a beautiful thing.
Garden: Fairview Christian Church Garden
Fairview Church Garden was on the Kansas City Urban Farms and Gardens tour for 2009, July 28! We are a community vegetable garden(using organic practices), Youth Garden 50 x 50, supported by the Missouri Extension office and Missouri Master gardeners, some raised bed areas with flowers and vegetables, 4 plots for local gardeners, roughly 20 x 20 with main garden about 340 x 40, growing tomatoes, mostly hierlooms, (cherokee purple, amana orange, carolina gold). We also have Peppers(bells, jalapenos, anahiems, cherrys), Eggplant, Kale, Swiss Chard, Corn, Potatoes(purples, pontiac, klondike), Greenbeans, Squash, Cucumblers, Okra(burgandy), Kohlrabi, Broccoli, Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes, Beets, Onions, and Garlic. Whewwww.... we have a few herbs...Dill, Chives, Parsley, Basil(green, christmas, red) Horseradish, Mint(chocolate and apple), lastly Borage. Flowers such as marigolds, zinnias, petunias, and nasturtium.
Garden: Boxes and Pots
The yard is in an older area and had been let go for a few years. My garden consists of 3 square boxes and 3 long planters plus several pots of vegetables, herbs and flowers. Vegetables are peas, carrots, cucumber, peppers, eggplant, broccoli, lettuce, radish, onions and tomatoes. I planted rhubarb in the yard as well. I also have 2 small flowerbeds. I also have most of a garden plot in one of the community gardens. I haven't been in it for about a week so I'm not sure what's going on with it. Potatoes, corn, tomatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beans, carrots, onions, beets, turnips, cucumbers, squash and pumpkin. If I get much of a crop I'm going to have to buy another freezer! I'm quite excited to see how things do. I planted several things that I never have before.
Garden: Bay Area Newspaper Group's "Our Garden"
"Our Garden" is a community and demonstration garden created by the Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune newspapers and the Contra Costa Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners. The goal is to educate both beginning and advanced gardeners on the best techniques for growing their own vegetables, and to help feed the hungry. Produce grown in the garden is being donated to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. (Source: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ourgarden/ci_12495833 )
Garden: The People's Portable Garden
The Wasatch Community Garden in Salt Lake City is responsible for creating the People's Community Garden. As a portable garden, this community plot has been set up in a way that it can be easily moved. Once the community has gotten together, learned how to grow delicious organic produce, the People's Community garden can be moved to another neighborhood where they might still be in the dark about the art of gardening.
Garden: The PEAS farm
The Program in Ecological Agriculture and Society (PEAS)through the University of Montana set up this community farm in 2001. In its first year, the PEAS farm produced 52,000 pounds of produce, which was then delivered to low-income families. PEAS works closely with both the Missoula Food Bank and Garden City Harvest, two organization who share PEA's passion for growing produce.
Garden: little slice of heaven
A first time gardener at best. Who knew gardening could be such a joy. My little slice of heaven aka plot is located in a community garden and measures 10' x 20'. Its strictly organic, I swear by sea soil and fish fertilizer.
Garden: Acequia and Waffle Community Gardens
The Santa Fe Community Gardens organization and Railyard Park have come together to create the Railyard Acequia garden, which will be on the south end of the park and will include 19 plots. The Waffle Garden will be a demonstration of traditional agricultural techniques. Designed by the Santa Fe master gardeners association, this garden will harvest traditional crops. The crops will then be donated to the local food bank. They need volunteers, so if you're in Santa Fe they'd love to see you show up with your garden trowl!
Garden: 7th Street Garden
This garden is founded and managed by the Jefferson Community Cooperation Extension Service. It grows organic produce. The 7th Street Garden started off as an empty lot, weedy and neglected, and has since blossomed into a useful, productive garden.
Garden: 1st attempt in a community garden
This is my first attempt this year, with a veggie garden. So far so good, almost everything has grown, except celery and leeks, but I planted them too late. I should have started them indoors, too.
Hopefully, weather permits (so far July has been colder and rainier than usual), I'll get some good veggies out of it.
I'll repeat the experience in my private yard next year, as I have just bought my first home.
Garden: Vivian's Colony Farm Plot
1st year Community Plot - July 2009. Assorted vegetables, berries and a little lavender to attract the bees.
Garden: Target Community Garden
For 15 years, this garden has been an important resource in improving the safety and quality of life in this Bedford-Stuyvesant community. A local elementary school and several families are currently involved in the maintenance of the garden. During 2004, these residents raised funds to support the site's use for gatherings, workshops, and as a learning garden by neighborhood school children.
Target is generously supporting the restoration of the garden and selected nationally acclaimed garden designer and horticulturist Sean Conway to provide the garden design. Since 1998, Conway has helped to create the garden centers in Target stores and also designed the gardens at the Target corporate headquarters in Minneapolis. He has also been a frequent guest on Martha Stewart Living and is the co-executive producer and host of Cultivating Life on PBS.
Garden: Desert Oasis
Due to our desert community we have our majot color gardens in the winter. The ever green part of our garden is low water maintanence. We have seasonal color plants for the summer.
Garden: Chris and Irene's Allotment Garden Plot
20' x 50' rectagular community allotment garden at the Agnes Street Community Garden in Saanich, BC, Canada.
Garden: Healthy Kidz Minnie St. Community Garden
This community garden was started in the spring of 2008 as a project of two churches (Rosedale United Church of Christ and St. Paul AME Zion) in the Rosedale area of Kansas City Kansas. An empty lot, made available by a 'Good Neighbor' allowed the garden to come to life. Their mission was to make available healthy food options for the folks living in the immediate area. In the fall of '08 volunteers from another church joined them. (Rainbow Mennonite)
In the summer of 2009 a small "Farmer's Market" was started on the church parking lot. Produce is also harvested and sold to individuals at different times. Some of the veggies are given away.
The UCC Church was host to the Healthy Kids Initiative Day Camp in August. The kids walked to the garden and were able to see first hand how their vegetables grow. They then were able to "pick" and fill their baskets.
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Garden: Guerrilla Garden, Central KCK
On partly wooded vacant lot, somewhat hilly, with spring, overgrown and lots of poison ivy, has been used for informal dumping.
Ted Zerger (Salina, KS) says, "find the worst lot in the worst neighborhood and that will make the best community garden."
Well, this may be the worst lot in the neighborhood, but it is really a great urban neighborhood, mixed housing stock, nice diversity of income, education level and ethnic/racial origins. And the potential of garden partners with neighbors, nearby churches and businesses, elementary school, high school -- an ideal place to "pioneer" like Johnny Appleseed.
Anyone know the origins of the P-Gardens in Seattle?
Garden: Mother Earth's Community Garden
We are the first community garden in Fort Smith. We grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers, but most of all, we grow friendships. We plan on starting an orchard this fall. We have just about completed our children's garden and are getting ready to build our own greenhouse from recycled wooden windows. Our composting area will be completely reworked this fall.
We show movies in our garden and have all types of parties. We have our own firepit and kitchen area with a regular grill and a cooking pit. We showcase the arts and our artists. If you are in the region, come downtown to the garden. We're located at the corner of North 9th and D Streets and our gate is always open.
Garden: Beausejour Daylily Gardens
Beausejour, Manitoba
Beausejour Daylily Gardens located in the town of Beausejour, Manitoba, 46 km north-east of Winnipeg. This two-acre community garden has something blooming from spring to snowfall.The Zone 2b Beausejour Daylily Gardens is the only American Hemerocallis Society (AHS) Display Garden on the prairies; the perfect place to test any tree or plant. It is also home to the most amazing collection of iris and peonies. We presently have over 550 Daylilies cultivars and over 150 Lily varieties.We are also an official Lily Display Garden documented with Manitoba Regional Lily Society. However, there is far more to the Beausejour Daylily Gardens than just daylilies.
Perhaps the greatest benefit has been the Garden Angel Program. Although the Friends of the Beausejour Daylily Gardens are responsible for the planning that goes into the park, and the Town provides some maintenance, it is the “Garden Angels:” who maintain the park to AHS Display Garden standards. Each section has a folk art sign with it’s number and the name of the Angel looking after it.
Garden: Midleton Community Gardening
This is a previously neglected area in front of a parade of shops which is being "renovated" by a volunteer group from the Midleton Transition Town Project. We are a group of like-minded people with an interest in global issues such as Climate Change, recycling and encouraging self-sufficiency by growing your own herbs and vegetables. The object of the gardening excercise is to increase awareness and interest in growing herbs and other beneficial plants in addition to providing colour and interest to an uncared for area.
The shoppers and other local people are free to help themselves to seeds and to take and use the herbs, flowers etc. in the hope that they will develop an interest in growing their own produce.
Garden: The Yarden
In 2006 we bought a "yard with a house attached to it" and in 2007 our Yarden was installed and growing. We now have 1700 square feet of organic raised beds, espalier fruit trees and various other interesting edible things. This is season three and this magical space has become a hub for parties, classes and community activity. Gardening really builds friendships! People are amazed when we share with them how to plant things, the importance of seed diversity or the simple joy of cooking what you grow. Every year we have more and more volunteers who join us for our planting party Memorial Day weekend and hang around through the season to see "their" plants growing. It has been a great experience. We will be teaching classes in the winter/spring of 2010 so others in Chicago can learn from our mistakes (ha!) and have their own back or front yard oasis. Check out our blog at theyarden.com or via our fan page on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. We are on a Yarden journey - join us!
Garden: Earth-Sheltered Garden
Welcome to the Earth-Sheltered (Community) Garden...a living space for development of produce to eat and people to meet.
We are developing the 3 C's---Community Garden...Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Commerce (Farmer's Market near by).
Started by Rebecca (Becky) Weitzel and Jeff Waschkowski and On The Edge Enterprises, Inc. We live in a concrete earth-sheltered next to the properties we are purchasing and developing into the Earth-Sheltered (Community) Garden in Omaha, Nebraska USA. We want to share our skills and resources and ask others to join us to continue to celebrate residential and commercial diversity and harmony.
On The Edge lives an active lifestyle. We are interested in fitness of body (Above The Bar fitness software), fitness of technology (Microsoft Certified Partner), fitness of property (ours and others) and fitness of resources (keeping it green).
Garden: La Manzanilla Community Garden
La Manzanilla, Jalisco Mexico's first community garden. 14 plots, 1000's of seeds and we will see!
Garden: Winston Smoyer Memorial Community Garden
The Winston Smoyer Memorial Community Garden boasts nearly 100 individual garden sites that are tended by individual gardeners, who enjoy planting fresh flowers and garden vegetables. They also enjoy getting together once a month for informative monthly meetings and workshops on gardening.
The Garden is named after Winston Smoyer, a retired Alhambra High School teacher, who was one of the most arden Alhambra Community gardeners in its history. He loved his plot, and provided friends with a never-ending supply of fresh vegetables, including some of the largest zucchini known to Alhambra. He was also a community activist, serving as long-time President and Curator of the Alhambra Historical Society, member of the Board of the Alhambra Day Nursery, member of the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce (where he won the Chamber's prestigious "Citizen of the Year" award), and other community organizations.
Garden: Potrero Hill Community Garden
Established in the early 1970s, the Potrero Hill Community Garden is one of 40 gardens operating under the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. Membership is open to any resident of the city.
Located on a once-vacant lot above the slopes where the "Goat Lady" of Potrero Hill used to graze her herd, the garden now consists of 50 plots and common areas maintained by local residents using only organic methods.
The garden boasts of panoramic views of the Mission, Twin Peaks, and beyond. Its sunny, Mediterranean climate permits cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals, including dahlias -- the official flower of San Francisco. (Source: http://www.potrerogarden.org )
Garden: Oregon Sage and Pine
Mine is a high desert environment. NOT the sand and cactus that many think of when we say "desert" but the sagebrush-steppe of the Northern Great Basin. We have an arid dry climate also filled with thick stands of Ponderosa Pine tree forests about 12 miles north of our small pleasant rural community. I have loved gardening all of my life and concentrate on herbs, perennials and edibles for thier food and esthetic value.
A photographer and writer I also love using my garden and garden products in my art.
I also LOVE friends who garden and love to learn about garden efforts of folks in differing climates and environments.
Regards,
Mari
Garden: Oakwood Manor Community Garden
Students of Oakwood Manor Elementary School, in partnership with Gladstone City's Senior Gardeners Project, engage in organic vegetable and flower growing to learn about plants, soil and water conservation, composting and recycling, good nutrition, and community service.
Garden: Omenapolkku 30, Vallilan siirtolapuutarha
Founded in 1932, The Vallila Community Garden is one of the oldest in Helsinki, Finland. Eighty years ago this area was underwater and part of the bay. Today it boasts 169 allotments.
Garden: Cheyenne Botanic Gardens
Outside spread over eight acres are many gardens featuring perennials, annuals, wildflowers, roses, herbs, and cacti. Some specialty areas include a nationally recognized inspirational Peace Garden, rose garden, herb garden, cacti garden, two community vegetable gardens, lily pond, sensory garden, and the Discovery Pond and educational wetland area. Connecting many gardens is the Western Walkway featuring 170 livestock brands set into the concrete walk. The walkway connects the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens grounds to the Old West Museum, where the vitality, drama and romance of life in the West comes alive.
Along the Western Walkway is a unique series of three landscaped plazas known as the Rotary Century Plazas. Each plaza interprets life in southeast Wyoming over the past three centuries (1700’s, 1800’s and 1900’s). Each plaza includes sculpted benches, historic plants and other interpretations explaining life in each century. The Rotary Century Plazas also include Wyoming’s oldest locomotive that is surrounded by a historic folk art fence. Adjacent to the 1900’s plaza is a restored 1928 FarmAll tractor and an educational shelterbelt planting.
Source: http://www.botanic.org/More_Details.asp
Garden: West Virginia Botanic Gardens
Imagine beautifully landscaped gardens reflecting on a shimmering pond. Trails weave from bright flowering meadows into a cool, shaded woodland. Streams sparkle beneath stately hemlocks. Some visitors stand silently, resting in the splendor of the vista; others energetically explore this wonderful community resource this wonderful community resource, the West Virginia Botanic Garden.
Begun as only a dream in 2000, the WVBG is on its way to becoming a reality on the 82-acre former Tibbs Run Reservoir property off the Tyrone Road in Monongalia County, WV. The former 15-acre basin will be transformed into two smaller pools with islands and aquatic plant displays. The old water works, still present, will stand as a link to the past.
The WVBG will feature a large variety of plants appropriate to the region's climate and soils in both designed and natural settings. Visitors will learn from these gardens in every season of the year.
Source: http://www.wvbg.org/mission.html
Garden: Kapiolani Community College Cactus Garden
This cactus garden was created by student/volunteer Moriso Teraoka in the late 1980s. The landscaped hillside contains an impressive assortment of cacti donated by members of the Cactus and Succulent Society. No admission charge.
Garden: Kapiti Coast Miracle in the Making
A sandy backyard under conversion to a productive home orchard and vegie patch through mulch, manure and love. Learning what grows, what dies and what thrives in Kapiti. Putting in a rainwater tank, a hothouse and much more in year to come. Looking to help with local Raumati community garden and learn from local gardeners with more experience with coastal gardening.
Garden: Rollandet Community Garden
The Idaho Falls Community Garden is about growing - growing flowers, growing vegetables and fruits, and growing a community of people who can share their love of gardening while taking good care of our small part of the earth. The Rollandet Community Garden is one of the IFCG's three gardens. It offers wheelchair accessible raised beds.
Source: http://www.srv.net/%7Eklack/Garden/about.htm
Garden: Elko County Rose Garden
Begun in 2000, this garden was created as an ever changing, staged, community garden. It is located in Elko, Nevada, behind the Elko County Courthouse at the corner of 6th and Pine streets.
The primary objective is to create a garden that contains a collection of winter hardy, easy care roses. The goal is to identify and collect those roses that like living and thrive in Elko's climate, a USDA hardiness zone 5A (average annual minimum temperature of -15 to -20 degrees Fahrenheit). Pot-O-Gold? The red brick building with the white trim - at the end of the rainbow - is Elko's main branch of Bank of America.
Source: http://www.elkorose.com/
Garden: St. Andrew Community Garden
Seven years ago, Pastor Brent Long and church members decided to create a community garden and labyrinth. Now, there are 72, 8-foot square plots.
Gardeners are required to share a minimum of 10% of their harvest. The church also grows food to donate to the Billings Food Bank or Montana Rescue Mission.
Source: http://www.kulr8.com/news/local/51651547.html
Garden: Urban Food Forest
This is a double lot in town that is all rock, will become raised bed and container garden designed along permaculture principles. One plot will be a community garden for local food bank.
Garden: Simunye Ngothando
A permaculture demonstration site nearly two years old, on old grazing land. There are chicken tractor systems, vermicomposting, composting, fruit trees, seed harvesting, nursery...and some pretty garden areas, too! We offer training, support and invite people to join us on community gardening days.
Our organisation is called The Foundation for Food, Life and Growth; we focus on sustainable living and things that nourish people's spirits as well.
Garden: Stichting B.a.d - garden
Community garden in a former inner schoolyard. It is a green oase which is used by the artist who live and work now at the place.
Garden: My community and yard garden
I am doing edible landscape at home and veggies at the community garden. One can never have enough garden friends.
Garden: HERBARIUM
Parque privado abierto a la comunidad, el Herbarium tiene un jardín sensorial con hierbas aromáticas, una huerta orgánica con parrón y frutales, plantaciones aromáticas de lavanda, huerta comunitaria para niños "Pillpa", laberinto y prado de relajación. Tienda de regalos. Abierto de lunes a viernes 8 a 17 horas, sábado de 9 a 18 horas. Clases de Herbología, Terapia Hortícola, Dibujo Científico y Huerta Urbana. Talleres sabáticos y visitas guiadas. Más info en (562)2797087, www.herbarium.cl, email: herbario@herbarium.cl o en Facebook como Herbarium o Huerta Urbana Herbarium
Private park open to the community. Sensorial garden. Organic orchard, vegetables and aromatic herbs production. Labyrinth (7 circuits), horticultural therapy programme for kids "TiNi Pillpa". Gift Shop. Workshops (starting April 8): Botanical Drawing, Herbology and Urban Orchard. Guided visits for schools, groups and associations on request. More info: Phone: (56.2)2797087, email:herbario@herbarium.cl, www.herbarium.cl or in Facebook as "Herbarium", "Pillpa" or "Huerta Urbana". Open to the public Monday to Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. Saturday from 9am to 6pm. Free entrance to the park.
Garden: PILLPA (butterfly in quechua)
Pillpa (mariposa en quechua), proyecto de Herbarium, es una huerta-jardín, dedicado especialmente a los niños. Tiene forma de mariposa y en cada una de sus alas se desarrolla un programa de terapia hortícola para niños. El objetivo es una mejor calidad de vida y formar valores sociales en ellos. Cada niño es dueño de un metro cuadrado y a través de su cultivo, se le enseña a compartir, a respetar, a solidarizar. Pillpa es totalmente orgánica y para contribuir a ello los niños preservan la biodiversidad cultivando flores al lado de frutales, hortalizas y hierbas aromáticas. Tienen también un sector de reciclaje, lombricultura y compost. Otro sector está destinado al área social con una canchita y juegos infantiles. Más información en www.herbarium.cl o en Facebook como PILLPA.
Pillpa, a project of community gardens for children. Tierra de Niños Pillpa is a Herbarium project that is being worked on in collaboration with Manos y Naturaleza and the Chilean Horticultural Therapy Association. This garden is shaped like a giant butterfly or pillpa (875 m2) and in each of its wings it houses a different Horticultural Therapy programme focused essentially on education, health and training for the children of the Metropolitan Region, aiming to become an example to be duplicated in each of the towns of Greater Santiago and eventually in every town in Chile.
Garden: Collingwood Community Garden
In Spring of 2005 the institute connected with an amazing team of individuals to spearhead a community garden beneath the guideway at Joyce Skytrain Station. A second community garden was then established in summer 2006. These gardens have become important places for food growing, cultural sharing, leadership development, neighbourhood beautification and land stewardship.
The community garden is a place of beauty and diversity. The members care for several common plots which grow ornamental and edible herbs; a public food boarded on the outside of the garden fence where those passing by can pick and enjoy the harvest and a new butterfly boarder. Inside the fence there are twenty-two plots which have been utilizes by families and individuals of their own enjoyment and harvest. The garden members have been apart of many other projects including developing the Native Berry Trail, Seedy Saturdays and the Collingwood Days Plants Sales.
Garden: Grandview School and Community Garden
Grandview/Uuqinak'uuh is an inner city elementary school located on Vancouver’s East Side. Grandview has a unique population of students in that 50% are Aboriginal, many come from single parent families or are raised by extended family members or the foster-care system, and many families struggle with poverty issues. In the last eight years Grandview has made great changes to their academic program and physical environment, in particular the addition of a one-acre native garden and the programs connected to it. The programs stem from the belief that when students and their families are engaged and take pride in their school: the health, well being and performance of the children improves significantly. This community on the east side was deprived of green space prior to this project, the sense of community was suffering and the need for programs aimed at bringing people together to exchange ideas, and adopt healthy lifestyles was lacking. Our School Garden allows the elementary students to spend recess and lunch times in a lush and green space, and allows teachers to include more hands-on ecology and environmentalism in their curriculums.
Garden: Pitt Meadows Community Garden
The Pitt Meadows Community Garden (PMCG) welcomes residents of Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge, British Columbia. The Garden site is approximately 4500 sq. m. and has space for approximately seventy five 15’ x 15’ garden plots. There are also four raised beds for persons with physical limitations. Each 15’ x 30’ garden plot is surrounded by a wheelchair accessible gravel path. There is a wheelchair accessible washroom and tool shed on site. We are a “Community” Garden, with plots held individually by gardeners who have rights to what they grow as well as full responsibility for their plot. Our goal is to preserve and share the Community garden for now and in the future, so that as many families as possible have an opportunity to garden in their little patch of dirt. Collectively we take care of the land, improving and maintaining the Garden for future gardeners and future generations.
Garden: Douglas Island Garden Society Community Garde
DIGS (Douglas Island Garden Society) community garden is located on a little island in Nanaimo's (B.C., Canada) harbour. There 250-300 residents on the island and 87 of them are members of DIGS. Our garden has 10 communal beds which are maintained by volunteers and the produce from these beds are shared with island residents. There are also11 allotment beds leased annually by individuals. Our garden is located on city parkland and the city (Nanaimo) was very generous in assisting with initial costs to build the beds and fence. Because there are no stores on the island residents appreciate the produce from the garden which is put out on the harvest table as it is harvested along with a donation box. Our garden also acts as a community gathering location. Islanders can come with friends and family and sit in the garden and enjoy the surroundings.
More information here: http://digsgarden.blogspot.com/
Garden: The Giving Garden
Our church garden started in the spring of 2007 with four 10 x 10 plots. All food was given to the local Food Bank. We hope to grow and make plots available to our neighbours. The local Community Garden Association has been a great help.
Garden: Cordata Community Gardens
We are a beautiful garden of raised beds, all organic, with a 7' deer fence, all serving 50 families in our neighborhood. Our garden served as the model for additional community gardens built throughout Bellingham and Whatcom County this past year. CCG functions as all volunteer with an Operating Team of 11 gardeners, each with an area of responsibility. Organizer Dee Andrews serves as Coordinator, also as volunteer. We are a 501 (c) 3 organization. We have just completed our first full spring-summer growing season, one which enjoyed great weather, and we were able to donate many boxes of produce to the Domestic Violence Shelters here. The garden is also open for fall/winter gardening at individual gardener's choice. In addition to 50 raised beds of 64 sq feet each, the garden has spaces dedicated to fruit trees, as well as mature blueberry bushes, raspberry and waldo berry vines, strawberry patches, and rhubarb and flower beds. Harvests from these are shared by all gardeners. Future plans may include bee hives, an herb area, and a pumpkin patch for the entire neighborhood. Our garden is in an open area, giving us unlimited sunshine. We have established a healthy composting operation. The garden is used by many residents in this part of the city as a pleasant place to stroll, sit, and chat with others. We are truly building community, and learning together while producing good organic food.
Garden: Anacortes 29th Street Community Garden
The 29th Street Community Garden started in spring of 2009. This is a pilot program for community gardens here on the island, Anacortes. There are eleven 10'X20' plots which many are split in half, two additional plots that are used by the food banks here on the island and six smaller plots designated for children. ADA plots will be built for the 2010 spring planting. These plots will be raised beds for gardeners who may be in wheelchairs or need raised beds to work in.
The plots are sold annually for those who do not have an area to plant and given to those who have low income and would like to grow fruits and vegetables.
We also hold classes, open to the public, at the Anacortes Public that help not only the gardeners but anyone interested in learning how to garden, compost, identify bugs, etc.
More Photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/roseannadana/sets/72157623001288070/
Garden: Unity Garden
Unity Garden is a community garden for low income Skagit Valley farm workers. This green space provided 4,000 lbs of food for needy families during 2009 and gave these families a place to recreate in a healthy environment.
The associated Unity Education program provides summer education programs, after school tutoring, and self-esteem building opportunities for youth of all ages. These programs often take place in the Unity Garden and expose kids to concepts such as sustainable living, healthy eating, community building, science, art, and nature.
Over the past year, the Unity Education program engaged over 22 resident families, 64 kids, and 47 community members.
The Unity Garden and Education program is an opportunity for the entire community to work together to reduce poverty and promote healthy living through education and self-empowerment.
Garden: Community Organic Gardens of Sequim - June Ro
The June Robinson Memorial Park is the City of Sequim's newest park which provides 8 (4' X 10') raised gardens beds and 16 (10' X 10') ground plots. The garden was built by the City of Sequim while donations from the Sequim Sunrise Rotary Club and a local Eagle Scout aided in the garden's development. This is the second community garden site in the corporate city limits and the first publicly owned garden. This garden is proving to be a vital piece of the city's downtown charater as Sequim has a long lived agrarian history.
Garden: Community Organic Gardens of Sequim - Fir Str
Sunlowers, Squash, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Peas, Carrots, Kale and many other vegetables grow abundantly in the 75-foot by 150-foot section of land leased to Friends of the Fields by St. Lukes Episcocal Church for $1 a year. This garden is divided into 35 plots with 5 being raised beds.
Garden: Cascade P-Patch Community Garden
The Cascade P-Patch includes innovative items: rain collection, children’s play features, giving garden, and cob bench. Adjacent to the P-Patch is the “Garden of Happiness”, another community based project with a native plant focus; and Cascade Peoples’ Center building which supplies collected water.
Garden: White Center Heights Park Community Garden
The White Center Heights Community Garden consists of 17 3'x7' raised beds and is located within the recently made over White Center Heights Park. 2008 is our first growing season, so our policy is still in the works, but the garden is FREE to participate in, strictly organic, utilizes a water cistern, and has compost bins on-site. In fact, due to the economic challenges many in the White Center community face, we have solicited donations for organic fertilizer and plants for our gardeners and neighborhood businesses have generously responded.
If you are interested in gardening with us, please contact Audrey Zemke at the White Center Food Bank for an application. The assignment of a bed in the WCHP community garden is valid for one year and is open to random lottery assignment the following growing season. Applications are accepted from January to March, however we have not yet assigned all of the beds for 2008 and will continue to accept application until each bed has a gardener.
Garden: Vinegar Flats Community Garden
Vinegar Flats is the St. Margaret Women's Shelter community garden. The garden is committed to growing food with organic practices and ensuring that the marginalized populations of Spokane have access to our produce. We sell at the South Perry's Farmer's Market and have a Community Supported Agriculture program. The garden is run by volunteers and we are always looking for more help, so email us if you are interested in helping out.
Garden: Sandpoint Community Gardens
This small garden represents the beginning of a local food system design to eventual bring food security to Sandpoint and Bonner County. The food was grown by volunteers and was distributed to those in need.
Garden: Redeemer Community Garden
Local residents will be offered space to grow and harvest food for non-commercial use. Thirty plots, each 6'x24' will be ready for planting on Sat., May 15, 2010. One plot will be reserved for Redeemer's Preschool and five for families of an on-site Head Start program. Redeemer members will grow a plot to provide produce to a nearby food pantry and the Marion/Polk food regional food share. Another plot will be grown as a Redeemer CSA-type fund raiser (community supported agriculture) providing fresh produce to members of our church family and offer healthy cooking classes through our Parish Nurse program.
Our Mission Statement: The Redeemer Community Garden connects people through the joy of growing fresh nutritious food. Together we will learn to care for the land entrusted to us through environmentally sustainable ways which are pleasing to God and all His creation.
Garden: Alpine's 'Stone Soup' Community Garden
We are creating a community garden in the park in downtown Alpine, Oregon (across from the school). Due to watering limitations, and the desire for a project that unites us as a community, it is one large plot (instead of many individual plots). We are focusing on growing crops that can be stored easily for the winter: potatoes and squash etc., and foods that can be canned: tomatoes and pickles etc. All work is being done by volunteers, and all materials are being donated. The harvest will be available to those who contribute to the garden. Any surplus will be donated to the food-bank or others in need. We think of this as a 'Stone Soup' garden, where if each of us shares a little of what we have, whether that’s time or materials, that we’ll be able to grow food for all to enjoy.
Garden: Wilsonville Community Garden
Wilsonville Community Garden is located within the city limits of Wilsonville, Oregon just off Wilsonville Rd. The garden is within the confines of Memorial Park. Currently there are 32 10' x 12' plots available at a cost of $12 per season as well as 8 smaller raised bed plots available at $16 per season. Gardeners are responsible for the upkeep of their plot. Unattended plots may be reassigned.
Organic practices must be followed. Use of OMRI listed products encouraged. No synthetic herbicides, pesticides, fungicides or fertilizers may be used. Use of tobacco is prohibited. No loud music within the garden. Hand watering only. No on-site garbage pick up.
The garden is in the infancy stages of expansion efforts that will triple the size to just under 1 acre. New gardens will work in collaboration with Wilsonville Community Sharing and The Oregon Food Bank encouraging food bank receipents to build community through local food initiatives, environmentally sound agricultural practices while educating fellow gardeners and the community at large.
The vision for the future is the garden as a hub indigenous, experimental urban agricultural knowledge, international cuisine, cross cultural exchange, local artistry, outreach, education and generally creative community building efforts. A local food system encompassing a weekend tailgate market of organically grown produce is the utopian goal several years into the future.
Garden: McMinnville Community Garden
Welcome to McMinnvile Community Garden Our mission is to help feed the people of our community by providing fresh produce for the Salvation Army Food Pantry and enabling garden members to grow food for their families.
A little history The Community Garden was started six years ago as a joint project of McMinnville Salvation Army and a group of community volunteers. The vision was to help families in need grow some of their own food, to provide fresh produce for the food pantry boxes and to help families learn new self-sufficiency skills. Over the years the garden has changed and is now a partnered venture with the Yamhill County OSU Master Gardeners. It has become more self-supporting and hopefully soon be fully.
More info here: http://mcminnvillecommunitygarden.blogspot.com/
Garden: Salmon Creek Community Garden
The Salmon Creek Community Garden was founded in 2006 by a small group of committed Oakridge area citizens. It is a 2 acre parcel on beautiful Salmon Creek. The garden is divided into permanent infrastructure and personal plots. So far the garden contains pear trees, plums, cherries, an almond tree, apples, asian pears, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, a grape vine, artichokes, rhubarb and various native shrubs and wildflowers.
Garden: Fulton Community Garden
The largest Community Garden in Portland, Oregon, this site has 106 garden plots. There is a compost demonstration site and a childrens garden program area. The south and east sides of the garden are bordered by native plant habitats and a small rose garden on the west, with an ecoroof kiosk.
Garden: Eastside Community Garden
Eastside Community Garden began in September, 2008, with a grant from Oregon State Extension Services. In the vacant lot surrounding the Community of Christ church, 29 garden plots measuring 20 ft x 20 ft have been developed. Four foot wide paths between each plot are covered with heavy landscaping cloth. The yearly dues for each plot is $40. That money will help offset the cost of monthly water fees to the church. Grant monies will be used to purchase a watering system, seed, tools, and some fencing materials.
Garden: Portland State University Community Gardens
The community garden allows PSU students and faculty to experience the joys of gardening. We are funded through the Residence Housing Association. The community garden land is owned by PSU.
Garden: Brentwood Community Garden
Brentwood Community Garden is located in Southeast Portland on Parks and Recreation property. there are 78 garden plots, a small fruit demonstration area, shed, gazebo with an 800 gallon water tank, and five raised accessible garden beds. This garden is the second largest community garden in Portland, and was constructed in 1996.
Garden: Sewallcrest Community Garden
Sewallcrest Community Garden is one of the three original sites that the Portland Community Garden Program organized around in 1975. It is part of the Sewallcrest Neighbrohood Park, located a block south of the busy Hawthorne business district. Waiting lsits continue to top 100 families, as this is one of the more popular gardens in the city. A special population school is located across the street, and the school has always had a garden plot in the community garden.
Garden: Woodlawn Community Garden
Woodlawn Community Garden is a combination school, children, and community garden. It is located between the Woodlawn School and Woodlawn Park in Portland, Oregon. There are plots for the Portland Community Garden's Children's garden program that is active in spring, summer and fall. Woodlawn School has a section of the garden. The "I have a Dream Program" has a plot. There are special features in this garden such as: a section for the Produce for People vegetable donations to the neighborhood food pantry, a native plant habitat area, a sitting mound, teaching areas. There is a 800 gallon water collection Thai jar tank, fed by rainwater from the roofs of a trellis and the school portable building.
Garden: Marshall Center Community Gardens
One of four community gardens in Vancouver, registration begins in February, with gardening season from mid-April, ending in early November. Flowers and vegetables grown must be for personal use. Rates are $24 per plot, ($18 per plot if 55 or older), with scholarships available.
Garden: Wood Village Community Garden
The Wood Village Community Garden was developed to provide a place for local residents to grow food and ornamental crops to promote affordable fresh produce and green living, as well as to enjoy the relaxation and educational benefits that community gardening can bring. The Wood Village Community Garden offers an opportunity for residents to grow vegetables and flowers in a community setting. The community garden has 14 garden plots. Six plots are 10 feet by 10 feet in size, and 8 plots are 5 feet by 7 feet in size. The gardeners are responsible not just for their plot, but for pathways surrounding their plot and helping the garden area as a whole. Each gardener is part of a community of gardeners that work together to make a positive gardening experience for everyone.
Prices are: $20.00 for a 10x10 and $15.00 for a 5x7. Prices are for the entire growing season.
Garden: St Helens Community Garden
The St Helens Community Garden is a combination garden, with individual community member plots and a larger production garden for the Columbia Pacific Foodbank. Attached to a city park and located behind the senior Center, the city property is a perfect location for easy access and public exposure. The garden is approximately 9000ft, currently with a water supply, shed and fence, and has 11 individual raised boxes for planting. The garden was restarted in the spring of 2009 after having a brief retirement. Under the new outline, the goals for the garden include: 24 individual plots, an extensive production garden for the foodbank, a berry patch supporting several varieties, an herb garden, flower plantings, a new shed, a sheltered seating area for community gardening classes, an attractive setting with maintained grounds and community created art.
Garden: Options Community Garden
Options for Southern Oregon offers consultation, training, and innovative programs to serve low-income individuals and people with psychiatric disabilities, to inspire hope while supporting their participation as respected members of the community.
Options built the community garden in 2005. The garden provides 32 plots, available to individuals and nonprofit organizations at a nominal annual fee of $25. The fee covers ongoing expenses such as water and routine maintenance, making the project virtually self-supporting after the initial work was completed. Eight of the plots are held as "scholarship" plots. These plots are available at no charge to individuals who agreed to donate a percentage of their produce to agencies who work with hunger.
Garden: Blue Heron Park Community Garden
This sweet garden, located in a new park, features 20 plots, each 20 X 20, with two handicapped accessible plots which are raised to 24 inches. It also has a children's garden with a pizza garden, butterfly garden, bean teepee, and some tiny square foot garden boxes for the kids. The garden is only 5 years old, and was designed and built by teens living in a shelter home. They surveyed the surrounding neighborhoods for interest, applied for a local grant, built a garden shed, and built a deer proof fence using poles harvested from a forestry project. It has a gazebo built from the same harvested lumber. Gardeners gather monthly for parties and workdays. This year we have been blessed with many babies and their young parents, all learning to garden organically.
Garden: Ashland Community Garden
The Ashland Community Garden is a cooperative garden project started by local citizens through the North Mountain Park Nature Center. The purpose of the garden is to provide Ashland residents with recreational garden space and encourage citizen involvement in non-commercial organic gardening and sustainable agriculture. There are 43 plots in the garden. Most of the plots are 20x20; there are also 20x10 and 10x10 plots available.
The site was originally pastureland that had been acquired by the Parks Department in the summer of 2002.
In the early months of 2003, city residents Carol Kale and Carol Carlson made a proposal to the Ashland Parks and recreation commission to explore the Community Garden concept.
On March 24, 2003, the Ashland Parks Commission unanimously approved a motion to designate a community garden space within the parcel of land. The site was officially opened to gardeners on May 17, 2003. Due to the success and popularity of this garden site, the Ashland Parks Commission directed the Parks Department to look at other park properties for the inclusion of additonal community gardens as a park amenity.
Garden: Southern Oregon Community Garden
The garden is located between Henry St. and Ashland St.
From Siskiyou Blvd. go up Mountain Ave and take the first right (which will be Henry St.)
You can either go into the parking lot on your left or up the dirt road on your left.
Then you will be there!
Please contact ECOS if you have any questions or if you would like a plot.
Garden: Newport Community Gardens
The Newport Community Gardens were started in 2006 and originally involved one city park, Frank Wade Park , located near the municipal pool. This first park involves 18 raised bed plots of 4X12 foot beds.Last fall ( 2008) the Gardens asked for and received the use of another city property, located west of the city reservoir and next to the fresh water treatment plant. This newest garden, still being developed, involves 16 potential plots of 11X35 foot beds and is in a wetland with lots of wildlife and sounds of running water.
Garden: Iwakt Community Garden
We are a new community garden near Mount Hood in Oregon. Our Mission Statement reads: The Iwakt Community Garden will give local residents the opportunity to share in the joy of planting, raising, and harvesting healthy fruits, vegetables and fruits in an environment of respect and harmony with the land and one another.
Garden: Yachats Community Garden
Yachats Community Garden is central to our village and serves as a demonstration of living locally and practicing sustainable gardening. We know that our local community will benefit from growing food closer to home. It is our intention to share the bounty of our garden with those in need of a healthy and secure food supply.
We beliieve that community gardens beautify communities and provide opportunity for those citizens who do not have space or conditions to garden in a growing climate. Yachats Community Garden is Growing Community
Garden: Coquille Community Garden
The Coquille Community Garden provides food for local food pantries and a place where community members can grow their own food for personal use. There are 19 raised beds which can be rented yearly for a $10.00 fee (plus a $10.00 mandatory membership in the South Coast Community Garden Association). Three of those beds are disable-accessible. The remaining 13 beds are maintained by volunteers, and the food harvested from those beds is donated to the community. We also sponsor educational programs for children and adults, which are hosted by Coos County Master Gardeners. We broke ground in April of 2009, and we have a converted a gravel lot into a fully functioning and beautifully maintained garden. All of this was accomplished by a small group of dedicated volunteers who have contributed over 2,000 volunteer hours to date, and the generous donations of time, expertise, and products which have been received from every corner of our small community. Coquille is located 5 miles inland on the southern Oregon coast, and is populated by about 4,200 residents.
Garden: Lacey Crossroads Community Garden
The Lacey Crossroads Community Garden is a partnership between The Sherwood Group, Sustainable South Sound, and enthusiastic local gardeners. It consists of individual plots or raised garden beds – each 4ft x 12ft and 20 inches high. In addition to holding high quality organic compost to grow healthy plants, the raised beds make it easier for people of all ages and abilities to garden. Gardeners complete a simple application, agree to abide by the garden guidelines and rules, pay a small annual fee and are assigned a plot to plant, tend, and harvest for the season.
Garden: Common Grounds at Humboldt Garden
Newly created for the 2008 season, our 100'x100' Humboldt garden features great exposure, has a shed in place and is located across the street from a city park (with restrooms!). This is actually the first of two gardens planned this year - our second, Skyline, began construction yesterday. Our meager budget precluded purchase of real fencing, necessary for deer in our area, but we were the fortunate beneficiary of used bins from a local fruit warehouse and devised a very clever fence using them with 2'x4's, plastic mesh deer fencing and cable ties. The 4'x4'x28" bins also provide above-ground garden space for seniors and the physically challenged. We've scrounged for a lot of freebies, advertised for, requested and received many donations of time and materials, and utilized the services of local volunteers, especially, the county adult probation community service crew for three days that made the whole thing really happen! Our local mill provided a ready source of cheap, below-grade lumber and sawdust for pathway mulch.
Garden: Nativity Community Garden and Food Forest
This is the second full season for our garden. For 2010 we have expanded it to 40 individual family plots and 24 community sites dedicated to local social service agencies that provide food for the working poor and homeless of Central Oregon. Planting started May 29th. All but one of the 64 plots have been reserved. New raised planter boxes are being constructed in the Orchard to meet the increased demand.
This year we have added a 1/2 acre Food Forest with 70 fruit bearing trees and shrubs including two dozen cold tolerant species of plants and trees. The orchard was planted on May 1st with the help of over 70 community volunteers.
Garden: Puyallup Community Garden
Our goal is to provide community access to growing fresh produce and plants while fostering neighborhood improvement, a sense of community, and connection to the environment. With the rising cost of food and the reduction in flavor, people all over the country are taking notice and planting their seeds.
Puyallup’s community garden is open to the public and is divided into individual plots with two choices of either a 10x10 or 10x20 with cost ranging from $15-20 per plot plus a $20 water fee. The Steering Committee is encouraging locals to participate in the planning and beautification of Brown’s Property, with opportunities in the near future for social gatherings, education and recreational points of interest, and general beautification of the land. For more information on how to get involved or obtain your own plot, contact Parks and Rec at: 253/841-5457
More info here: http://www.puyallupcommunitygarden.blogspot.com/
Garden: Redmond Community Organic Garden
House of Hope Ministries (HOHM) is honored to sponsor Redmond, Oregon's first Community Organic Garden! The Garden opened in 2009 with 15 raised beds that were leased by VERY enthusiastic gardeners in the community, including kids from House of Hope (see our website at www.houseofhope-bend.org).
With donations from local businesses and with the sweat equity of our volunteers, the Garden transformed an empty parcel to an Eden of abundance. The soil used is top notch so we had almost no weeds, and the organic vegetables and herbs grew like wildfire. We supply water using an automated system, so all our gardeners have to do is tend their plants and watch them grow!
Our harvest time was lengthy, and the garden was such a success that in 2010, we have added 16 more plots and now have a total of 31 raised beds to offer to the community at a very nominal price ($25 for the season). We are excited to offer the Organic Garden as a benefit to the community and a tool to bring people closer to heath, abundance and each other.
More info here: http://www.houseofhope-bend.org/gardenpicscatalog.html
Garden: Madras Willow Creek Community Garden
The Madras Willow Creek Community Garden is located on the corner of 10th and B Street and was established by the Community Health Improvement Partnership(C.H.I.P.) in 2007 to promote a healthy community, provide food for families and create recreational and therapeutic opportunities for the community. The garden is maintained by volunteers coordinated through C.H.I.P. and garden plots are available to anyone interested, but the number of plots are limited. A portion of the produce is donated to community food banks, community kitchens, community food vans, missions, churches, senior residential parks and anywhere else it's needed. The garden is also used for educational purposes for our local youth programs.
Garden: Klamath Community Garden
Something beautiful is growing in Klamath Glen, California. Out of an empty lot in this small community on the Yurok Indian Reservation along the Klamath River, a community of plants and people is growing together. Starting with donated land, labor, and services, the Klamath Community Garden is bringing people together: young and old, Native and non-Native, experienced gardeners and novices alike, to grow their own food in a community that is more than 25 miles from the nearest grocery store. Recently, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released the results of its County Health Rankings for 2010. Del Norte County was ranked 56th out of 56 ranked counties in California for healthy outcomes. Only 1/3 of our residents live in census districts that contain a supermarket. Almost a 1/4 (23.6%) of our residents live below the poverty line. Over 80% of Yurok tribal members live below the poverty line. 2 RN's, Margie & Peggy, were inspired to start the growing project.
Garden: St Andrews Community Garden
After a nine-month gestation period and very hard labor, the Community Garden was born on April 15, 2007, in a corner of the five acres north of -- and belonging to -- St. Andrew's Church. In preparation for the blessed event, an area of about 75' x 100' was plowed, a greenhouse and 15 raised beds constructed, and a strawberry bed and three fruit trees set in.
In the spring of 2007, the three original gardeners applied for and received a grant of $200 from Shape Up Kittitas County (through the county health department), with which they created a sign, a tool shed and a brochure. Shape Up Kittitas County printed the brochures and helped publicize the garden, and suddenly, the place was filled with new gardeners and volunteers.
Garden: La Grande Community Garden
The Community Garden seeks to develop and expand available garden areas for growing, harvesting and eating of local foods to strengthen family and community health, emphasizing natural, organic and renewable gardening methods.
Garden: Winnemucca Community Garden
The Winnemucca Community Garden (WCG) is a nonprofit organization established in 2003. Our mission is to strengthen community relationships, foster environmental stewardship, and demonstrate horticultural principles. Winnemucca is located in the high desert of northern Nevada. In 2007 the garden became a partner agency of the United Way of the Great Basin. The garden is situated on a 2.5-acre allotment of land donated by the City of Winnemucca, which donates all of the water, too. One half of the garden contains individual plots for community members to adopt and garden in, while the other half includes a water feature, butterfly garden, and native plant landscaping. A greenhouse and composting center are available for community use. The garden is located within the city limits in a residential area. One elementary school is located directly across the street. Educators use the garden as an outdoor classroom to expand upon Science, Math, and nutrition curriculum. Students of all ages learn through hands-on gardening, school programs, special events, and specialized workshops. The garden hosts a Farmers Market in collaboration with the local Food Bank and also sponsors the Plant a Row for the Hungry campaign to help make fresh produce available to those in need in our community.
More info here: http://winngarden.org/
Garden: Four Rivers Community Garden
The Four Rivers Community Garden is a place where we come together to discover, learn and inspire our community in creating an organic and resilient food system that beautifies and enhances the land that has been given to us to care for. Our goals: Increase opportunities to network, learn and interact with one another and the greater community. Provide access to gardening knowledge and resources that increases awareness and self-sufficiency while promoting a healthy community. Increase fresh fruit and produce to supplement the food supply for local agencies involved in creating a food secure region.
Garden: Sunset Community Garden
Sunset Community Garden is a cooperative garden where everyone works to maintain the garden as a whole. There are two membership options-working members and supporting members. Working members pay only minimal dues each year and put 3 hours a week into the garden throughout the growing season. Our supporting members support us financially through a greater dues payment. All members recieve a share of the produce that comes out of the garden. We are located on a 1/3 acre plot at a retirement community and we often share produce with their kitchen. The residents love to watch the changes in the garden and often come out to chat with the gardeners and watch our children play. We are just wrapping up our first year and are eager for next year already.
Garden: White Crane Springs Community Garden
White Crane Springs is a 70+ plot style community garden located in San Francisco's Inner Sunset district. We are a member-led, organically and sustainably farmed garden growing a variety of vegetables, fruits and flowers. Members can maintain their own plots or garden in community space. We are open to the public so feel free to come by if you are visiting San Francisco!
Garden: Arroyo Community Garden
The Arroyo Community Garden is a new garden starting in your neighborhood. Our mission is to build community through gardening and education. We are creating space for people to come together to grow organic fruits and vegetables, to learn to eat healthily and to share the bounty with others. We are located behind the Living Word Lutheran Church, 901 Ely Boulevard South, Petaluma, California. We have land, water, design and a strong contingent of eager gardeners. To assure our success we need your involvement. Please join us.
Garden: West End Community Garden
An all new project in Santa Rosa's historic West End neighborhood.
Currently a residential lot close to downtown Santa Rosa and transportation. Historic house on lot that is being remodeled into a green, sustainable housing model.
Garden: Friends of Juilliard Community Garden
We are located in the beautiful Juilliard Park in downtown Santa Rosa. Members of the garden do 3 hours of work in the park per month ,in exchange for a 14x14' plot in which they grow their own vegetables. There are some restrictions contact Friends of Juilliard for more information.
Garden: Peralta Community Garden
"Karl Linn often spoke and wrote about the need to reclaim the commons and counter the ongoing privatization of public lands. He viewed the destruction of community gardens in New York City as the final enclosure of the commons. He believed strongly that guidelines to secure public land for community gardens should be incorporated in cities' general plans as was done in Seattle. He worked hard to include such guidelines in Berkeley's General Plan, convinced that through the creation and use of accessible community garden commons, neighborhood blocks can become arenas for a new kind of extended family living.
Garden: Alameda Bay Eagle Community Garden
We have 25 plots, some are full and the rest are half plots. We are a diverse community of gardeners of various age ranges that have been involved in the community since the 70's. Our garden is growing a variety of organic vegetables, flowers and herbs. We have a community outreach plot where we grow vegetables and then donate them to a community organization in need. Bi-annually we participate in the annual Alameda 4th of July parade and have won the award for the most colorful.
Garden: San Luis Obispo Community Garden
The City of San Luis Obispo Parks and Recreation Department manages four community garden sites with over 100 total garden plots for City residents. Garden plots are individually rented and maintained by the gardeners. Plots range in size from 36 to 750 square feet. Approximately 80 gardeners are waiting for a garden plot. We pride ourselves in providing not only space for the active gardeners to cultivate, but a beautiful community area for all park users to enjoy.
For more information, locations and photos please visit our Web site, http://www.slocity.org/parksandrecreation/commgarden.asp
Garden: Elk Grove Community Garden
Elk Grove Community Garden is a 501(c)(3) public corporation. It is a community run garden and education center and is governed by a board of volunteers. We have no paid staff. There are 80 planting plots available for use by both community members and families who regularly utilize the Food Bank.
The Garden exists to promote community identity and cooperation. It does this by renting plots to neighborhood gardeners to grow their own food as well as donating fresh produce to the Food Bank. The garden provides workshops on various garden related issues and garden tours for school age children.The Garden also offers free plots to families and individuals that need assistance to get back on their feet.
Our two big events include a plant sale in April and a Tomato Tasting Festival in August.
Garden: Charles Street Gardens
Charles Street Gardens is a one acre parcel sitting in the civic center of Sunnyvale, CA (Silicon Valley) which opened on May 29, 2006. In a historic agreement with The City of Sunnyvale Parks and Recreation Department, Sustainable Community Gardens agreed to design, build, operate and manage a community garden on a vacant acre of civic center land for the next five years (2011). We designed and built 87 raised redwood garden beds (4' x 16') and 5 - 4' x 8' 3 foot high redwood raised beds for accessible needs. We invited the Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County to build a teaching and demonstration garden within the community garden and they teach monthly classes for our gardeners and other residents of the city. We are completely organic. We also saved over 1,600 square feet of garden space for three food forest beds that are managed by one of our non profit directors to grow food for the hungry of Sunnyvale. This food gets weekly distribution to families in the City.
It took two and half years of working with the City to get this agreement and to receive this specific parcel of land, and the volunteers who stuck with us and eventually built the gardens are an amazing group of residents.
Garden: Crow Canyon Gardens
Crow Canyon Gardens is a public park owned by the City of San Ramon. The gardens were first planted in May, 1978 and were initially created as a source for fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables for Mudd's Restaurant (located adjacent to the garden). Virginia Mudd's primary purpose for the creation of the restaurant and gardens was to advance the art of growing, preparing and serving fresh wholesome food, to illustrate the direct connection between the source of food - the garden or farm - and the dishes served in the dining room. Her passion was to introduce the public in a delightful way to a style of cooking and eating that is delicious, maximizes the nutritious value of the food, and takes into account the way in which the food is produced. Today, through the demonstration kitchen garden, group tour program, classes, and community gardens, the Garden serves the local community as an environmental education and to promote the ideals of land stewardship, ecological responsibility, and small-scale biological agriculture.
Garden: Experimental College Community Garden
The Experimental College Community Garden is located on the UC Davis campus. It is organically managed, open to the public, allows gardeners to plant and rent fruit trees and other perennials, and has been in its present location since 1972.
With their rental of at least a 200 sq. ft. plot for $25 (March through Feb.) OR $15 (Oct. through March), EC Gardeners gain access to tools (in a padlocked shed), non-potable water (non-chlorinated water from UCD's 200 ft. deep well), garden advice and networking (barters, plot expansions, consulting), and communal harvests (fruits, nuts, herbs, and greens).
We encourage EC Gardeners to contribute volunteer work hours for plot credit on an independent, honor-based, drop in basis. The last group project was the construction of our cob bench community space, which was integrated with a graduate level UC Davis landscape design course and partially funded by the Davis Food Cooperative - another local gem.
Check out our webpage that's linked below as "asucd.ucdavis.edu" AND visit our page on the Davis Wiki for more info. If you want to rent a plot, please download both the contract and the application and send the app. via email to get a plot. If you're ever going to be in town, please email ahead to arrange a tour of the EC Garden - it's amazing!
Garden: Palo Alto Main Community Garden
Scattered throughout Palo Alto are plots of land dedicated to providing Palo Altans with a place to dig their hands into the soil and plant vegetables, flowers, and herbs. These open spaces are an oasis for gardeners, as well as visitors, who come to enjoy the beauty of the calendula blossoms, the corn stalks, the pumpkin vines, the sunflowers, and more, as well as the large variety of birds and butterflies. The community gardens are inviting places to walk and relax.
The original Main Garden was created in 1970 as a model to demonstrate organic gardening, a return to older gardening techniques. It was originally part of the City's Nature & Science Department and volunteer gardeners were recruited from junior high schools, City staff, and people interested in gardening.
Over the years, demand for gardening sites increased and additional gardens were created. Today, the Palo Alto Community Garden Program resides within the Community Services Department and is the responsibility of the Open Space and Parks Division.
The Palo Alto Community Gardens continue to change and grow with the times. The gardens have expanded to accommodate a growing population, gardening policies have changed to embrace new technology, and future plans are under discussion. We welcome your suggestions.
Garden: Alder Street Gardens
Growing Gardeners coordinates this educational school and community garden. The garden was established in 2006 by a group of garden-lovin' community members. It is now used by students at Quincy Elementary School and the community at large.
Garden: Colusa County Community Garden
We have 5 acres available for our community garden. 2009 was our first year and it was a BIG success. Our plots are 4X16 raised cement block beds filled with organic mushroom compost. Our garden is year round. Our garden is just steps away from the Colusa Certified Farmers Market and we allow our gardeners to sell at the Market (the garden is Certified). We are currently accepting new gardeners. Our beds are $25.00 from May 1 to April 30. Our Garden Contact/Manager is Lynda Reynolds.
Garden: Biggest Little Community Garden in the World
The community garden is primarily a school garden. It is approximately one quarter acre in size on my property. I live across the street from a "high risk" elementary school in an urban neighborhood, approximately 1 mile from downtown Reno. The intention behind the garden is multifaceted. The focus is to support social wellness. We do this by partnering with the Elementary School across the street, other schools, community members, neighborhood residents and local companies.
We partnered with the University of Nevada Cooperative Extention, which included the school and garden in a grant to provide a program that meets the state standards of education called "Nutrition in the Garden" to the third and fifth grade classes. Through this grant, we also have three picnic tables and have created a Learning Center.
We have created a fun, eclectic garden by integrating the garden "opportunities' with the existing landscape. The garden has fruit and shade trees, flower beds, an herb garden, and vegetable plots. We have raised beds made from recycled goods, wood, rocks and straw bales. In our first year, we extended the growing season all year, with help from students from a Charter High School who built a hoop house for the winter months (normally challenging in the high desert, but we were very successful!).
Garden: First Christian Church Corning Community Gard
First Christian Church, Corning (Disciples of Christ) and Building Community Partnerships in Corning are partnering with other local agencies in creating our first Community Garden. Partners will use the produce within their organizations as well as share with the local food bank, Corning Christian Assistance (CCA) and the Salvation Army of Red Bluff, CA as well as other poor and needy people within our community. We will offer to teach other organizations, apartment complexes, churches, school districts, city and county government parks and recreation in the creation of other Community Gardens locally.
Garden: Community Roots Garden
Community Roots Garden is a 1 acre community garden and ministry of the North Oxnard United Methodist Church. The mission of Community Roots Garden is largely to increase food security, both by providing the harvest to those in need through donations to local charitable organizations and by empowering the community to grow their own food. Besides growing food we are eager to grow community. We want to help ourselves and others become more self-sufficient and food secure. We want to share our food and share our knowledge about how to grow food. We invite your involvement!
More info here: http://communityrootsgarden.org/
Garden: Camarillo Community Gardens
The all-organic, Camarillo Community Garden Project is a registered non-profit 501(c)3 grass-roots movement. We are people with a common commitment to the citizens of Camarillo. Our goal is to empower our neighbors, to encourage them to take control of their own food supply, to enjoy a more healthful life style, educate youth about where food really comes from, build a sense of community among citizens, reduce their food costs, and help the environment. The project currently has the support from the City of Camarillo, Pleasant Valley Mutual Water Company, Pleasant Valley Recreation and Parks District, civic and fraternal organizations, and local business owners.
Our first community garden, the Antonio Garden is in full swing after just a year of effort. This garden has 52 garden plots and serves 49 families. Planning is underway for our second garden which will be located behind the Community Center. This 1/2 acre (possibly more!) garden will have room for at least 80 families and areas dedicated to producing food for the senior lunch program at the Community Center and other needy kitchens and food banks.
More info here: http://camarillocommunitygarden.com
Garden: Las Flores Community Garden
We are taking names for a waiting list and are proud that we have 80+ gardeners right now. Our garden expanded to twice the size of the original garden with funds from the city. We have a total of 116 plots (10 ft by 20 ft) We are located in Thousand Oaks, California, a community of approximately 100,000 people. Our city is often listed as one of the safest cities in America.
Our garden climate zone is 23/24 so we are able to grow many different things. The beauty of this climate allows us to grow and harvest year-round.
Garden: Las Flores Community Garden
We are taking names for a waiting list and are proud that we have 80+ gardeners right now. Our garden expanded to twice the size of the original garden with funds from the city. We have a total of 116 plots (10 ft by 20 ft) We are located in Thousand Oaks, California, a community of approximately 100,000 people. Our city is often listed as one of the safest cities in America.
Our garden climate zone is 23/24 so we are able to grow many different things. The beauty of this climate allows us to grow and harvest year-round.
Garden: Rosemary & Thyme Community Garden
Community garden sponsored by business and community members for the benefit of relieving hunger in our area. Operated by volunteers for the purpose for growing healthy fruits and vegetables to support our local food pantries and food banks while providing a great place for learning.
Garden: Eastwind Community Garden
Founded by Francesca Blom-Cooper in April 1975, this empty, trash filled lot has become a small organic community garden that produces all year round. Within our parameters, there are 16 garden plots (varying sizes), a tool shed, a compost area and an orchard. Eastwind Gardens is completely self-sufficient and operates with a very small annual budget. We are hopefull of becoming a nonprofit sometime in 2010.
Garden: El Sereno Community Garden
The El Sereno Community Garden is dedicated for community residents to plant organic fruit and vegetables for their families. It is our goal to encourage families and community to eat healthy foods while enjoying gardening. The garden is quite unique. There is a section for fruit trees and an area for gardeners who love to grow flowers and succulent plants. We have an open plaza area that is dedicated for community events, meetings, workshops, and space for recreation. We are a smoke free enviornment and are open all year round. We welcome master gardeners, unexperienced gardeners, schools, churches, famiies, garden workshops, volunteers, and anyone interested in doing community service. We are a diverse friendly group of gardeners and we welcome everyone to come out and join us grow healthy food.
Garden: Cambodian Seniors' Gardening Project
In 2006, the Cambodian Seniors Nutrition Program of the Asian & Pacific Islander Older Adults Task Force initiated a community gardening project to promote a healthy and active lifestyle for the seniors participating in the nutrition program. The Mt. Camel Cambodian Center agreed to host the garden at their site in Long Beach, California, which has the largest population of Cambodians in the U.S. The garden is tended by senior volunteers from the community.
A variety of herbs and vegetables are grown in the garden including many that are native to Cambodia, and aren't easy to find in mainstream markets. The senior gardeners enjoy growing things they like to eat, such as ngo om (rice paddy herb), hot basil, ngo gai (saw leaf herb), basil, white basil, kapucha, cucumber, fuzzy squash (fuzzy melon), and bitter melon.
Garden: Santa Fe Springs Community Garden
The Santa Fe Springs Community Garden is a vibrant garden compiled of gardeners from all ethnic backgrounds. Gardeners plant vegetables for food surplus and share with others, and plant flowers to beautify their garden parcels and attract wildlife. The garden is located in Santa Fe Springs Civic Center and is clearly visible and attractive locale for residents or visitors. The garden is an asset to the community as it provides recreation for gardeners of all ages and serves as a common area to socialized and network.
The Santa Fe Springs is a public garden which occupies municipal owned land. The garden is supervised by the City's Aquatic Staff from the Department of Community Services. Garden maintenance is performed by the City's Public Works Department and gardeners. Monthly garden meetings are held so gardeners have the oppurtunity to voice any maintenance or policy issues. For additional information please call City Hall at (562) 868-0511.
Garden: La Madera Community Garden
El Monte's first community garden is home to approximately 20 families. It is a place to grow your own vegetables and to meet neighbors. Each interested family is assigned a garden plot that they can plant with food. We have an oven & barbeque pit, a medicinal garden, and a community area that everyone can enjoy. Come on by or call Carmen at (626) 419-1436 if you would like to join.
Garden: Mendocino Community Garden
The Mendocino Community Garden is a volunteer organic garden where we grow food for the community. Unlike many community gardens, made up of individual members plots, MCG is one large production garden with 30 beds ( 3 1/2’ x 25’) tended jointly by all who work within the garden. The gardeners of MCG do harvest food for themselves, but the bulk of the food goes to the Fort Bragg Food Bank and local soup kitchens. We focus on vegetables that do well here on the north coast of California and use a four year rotation systems that allows us to support the gardens soil and grow healthy and bountiful vegetables.
Garden: Noyo Come-Unity Garden
Noyo Come-Unity Garden is a traditional community garden where plots are rented to community members. It is administered by the Noyo Food Forest, a non-profit organization, whose mission is to cultivate a healthy local food system by providing opportunities for education, enterprise, and community involvement.
More info here: http://www.noyofoodforest.org/
Garden: Costa Mesa City Hamilton Community Garden
A city run community garden with 41 parcels. It has a running waiting list. Parcels are 15 X15 roughly; gardeners are responsible for taking care of their plot and the aisles around it; As of right now there isn't really any community spirit, although a couple of gardeners are attempting to make it a little more functional and connected.
Garden: Santa Ana People's Garden - Santiago
Santa Ana People's Garden- Santiago features 44 plots on the campus of the First Congregational Church near Santiago Park. We started organizing in May 2009 to create a place for food, culture, health, and community. It is the first community garden in Santa Ana and we hope to build many more. This city needs them so badly! We have one wheelchair accessible bed and plan to build another. We have 10x10 plots available for only $25 per year to cover water. We have group work days on the first and third Saturdays of the month. We also hope to have farmers' markets at the site once we are established.
Garden: Community Gardens
This garden in Thames township.NZ is worked under supervision by and for a joint venture,between The Organic Co Op and The Supported LifeStyle Hauraki Trust...
The Organic Co Op has a small shop in town and the Trust has clients with different abilities..who go and work in the gardens on a Thursday..and a few of us go on a Sunday morning..its a peaceful,friendly place to go and just be..more to come.
Garden: Flowers & Gifts by The Garden Girls
We have a gardening business that is ten years old. About a dozen women of all ages go out in teams of two and tend gardens all over Simcoe County in Southern Ontario.
Garden: http://www.ginatnoy.co.il
independent website that was established in memory of the horrors of the late Ruth Benjamin in the first leading agronomists, who ran the ornamental farm for many years until his death prematurely. Acclimatization devoted her life to new plants and distributing in the country. Most of the existing house plants in Israel have the brought down and ornamental Htaklmotm here to experience its dedicated staff
The purpose of this site to share the knowledge accumulated over years of work clearly and simple to anyone interested in adding knowledge and centralize existing gardener in a simple matter
Garden: Lakeside grove miniature garden
Refer to www.gardenoftony@blogspot.com
We build our very own Chinese and Japanese Garden known as Lakeside grove mimiature garden.
Garden: Avant Garden Intermediae-Matadero
Avant Garden es un jardín urbano ideado por atelier le balto, una rosaleda de carácter salvaje, un jardín compartido por visitantes, creadores, paseantes... un lugar de convivencia e intercambio, de aprendizaje, disfrute y reposo.
Avant Garden es una metáfora del proceso, un gesto que multiplicar y transformar y una plataforma desde la que investigar para proponer hábitats sostenibles a través de proyectos relacionados con la permacultura, que tienen lugar a lo largo de todo el año.
El último domingo de cada mes (12.00-14.00 horas) se organizan talleres para el cuidado del jardín, enfocados a indagar y profundizar en el concepto y la filosofía sobre la que atelier le balto diseñó el jardín.Abiertos a todos los públicos.Plazas limitadas.
Garden: Kat's DUG Plot
10x5ft plot, well composted soil. Hoping to put in tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and lettuces. Hopefully using some permaculture techniques. :)
Garden: Peace Garden in Portland
Peace Garden was constructed in 2009 and is located at the Peace Church of the Brethren in Portland. It has 16 plots, two raised accessible gardens beds, a picninc table in a gathering area and a shed.
One of the garden plots will be used by Daybreak, the homeless family shelter that is located at the church. Other are assigned to individuals who grwo for themselves and to donate to SNO-CAP and Daybreak.
This is a Portland Parks and Recreation Garden, which is located on the Church property.
Garden: Harmony Garden at Salmon Creek School
Harmony Garden at Salmon Creek School is a one acre teaching garden used by students and staff at the school. Students from grades k-8 learn how to grow, harvest, and prepare garden crops. They learn how to steward the soil through composting, mulching and the use of cover crops. Students also do lots of seed saving in the fall. We have many seeds to share with other school garden programs. Please contact us for a seed catalogue!
Our new projects include a native plant nursery and wildlife habitat border around the garden.
More info here: http://harmonyusd.org/harmony_usd/page81.html
Judy and Jerry C
We are Arkansas transplants from California by way of Montana. We love our community and enjoy spending time in the garden.
David R
Hello GardenJot community! I don't yet have a garden, although I have an interest in making one soon. Because I don't have the space it will probably have to be a pretty small fire-escape type setup.
bbb
An old Spanish proverb goes something like this.....more grows in the garden than the gardener sows........ Since I joined this group of gardeners last fall, I have found this to be very true. It's been a great experience. I'm an aging gardener, in more ways than one, and have found this to be just what i needed at this time in my life! We ARE a community garden.
Angela
I am a single parent to a 15 year old son. My son is home schooled. He was diagnosed with aspergers syndrome, and rather than put him on the cocktail of drugs the doctors wanted to give him to make life easier for his school, I withdrew him from school at age 7. We've been on a rich and healing journey together since, and now he is turning out to be a great kid, a real gift to me, and has taught me more than I'll ever be able to teach him lol. We live a simple but satisfying lifestyle on a very small "farm". I say farm because we have so many animals but really it's only just over 1000sm. (1/4 acre). Our animals are an integral part of our garden, We have 1 dog, -in charge of security! 2 goats - their job is to control the lawn in the back yard, eat any garden waste, hedge clippings etc, and look after the chickens. 5 cats, they keep the mice away - we used to have a major mice problem. 7 chickens, they recycle garden waste, eat bugs and supply us with eggs, and compost. Then there are the ten guinea pigs. Only started with 5, but they multiplied! they take care of all the lawn in the front garden. My garden is relatively new. Basically starting the vege garden from scratch. am planting lots of fruit trees, the plan is to grow an abundance of fruit and vege and feed my family and have a bit left over to supply the community. I recycle a lot, and use recycled materials in my garden as much as possible. Much of my garden is planted in tyres, my "tyre garden" :-)
misch
I'm a student, an artist, and I work at a plant nursery.... I have my long time childhood friend to thank for this opportunity to have my very own garden!!!! I am involved in a local community garden and am loving it immensely. Who knew gardening was my thing.
PHILLIPS
Inspired by Ted Zerger from Salina, KS (Ten Reasons why Mennonites should do community gardening, http://rainbowpeacejustice.blogspot.com/2008/06/top-ten-reasons-why-mennonites-should.html)
Jeff
Been gardening since I was a kid. Keep many house plants, keeps a yearly out door garden including mostly veg and roses + herbs. Mostly gets overgrown with weeds. Much too much room to work alone. Community style garden next year. Love starting from seed. Starting a minor seed bank.
GardenJot GardenBot
I take many forms and am currently the robot found on the roof garden of the The Ghibli Museum in Tokyo. I spend my time searching the web for public and community gardens to add to the GardenJot map.
Gloria Jean Starweaver
A 69yrs old hippy escaped from the city..now living in this delightful seaside village.of Thames New Zealand..creating a life/home/garden worth having.I don't know many of the fancy names of plants and have no interest in trying to learn them..I just love my garden and am very interested in what others do in their gardens.I am differently abled and unwell,living each day to the best of my abilities. I lived with both my parents and grandparents at different times of my childhood and learnt a lot about basic gardening in terms of food and some "eye-candy"..for me there is something very special/healing about gathering fresh food from my garden daily and making a meal. I also try to pass on this basic knowledge and pleasure to my mokopuna/grandkids...in the hope that they too will be able to feed theirselves etc if/when they need/wish to. I also have things in my garden that are memorial plants to those i love/d and have passed over.Blessed be! I will be including another garden I put energy and love into..our local Community Garden..stay tuned.It is a garden where the locals can go and support other who are "differently abled" mentally/physically/interlectualy/finacially...etc
Campbell Kiwanis Club, Crossings Community Church, Campbell Middle School, and Citizen Schools volunteers at the end of a morning working in
One park in a spine of 6 community parks that span 6 blocks and known as the Visitacion Valley Greenway. Each park is about a house lot wide
The aptly named Fireglow Euphorbia. I love the tall, dark red stalks and the glowing orange heads. This is one of the first plants that I placed into the garden after buying it and a few others from a neighbour at a community sale, but it proved to be very invasive so now I only plant it very carefully. I'm going to see how it does in large pots.
The greenhouse is open to the community. We can grown things in there if we wish, or borrow gardening tools. Its so handy.
Soon I will have to start a garden for our local Elementary School. The Development is in progress... Sadly it means the removal of a second growth forest. UniverCity's Elementary will have a rain garden. The school will follow gold LEED standards. I believe that with community input we can maximize the ecological diversity on the property and minimize negative impacts to systems lower on Burnaby Mountain.
Community Northern Cardinal checking out the blooms in my garden, he seems to approve of the new colors.
