A community garden is a place where the community can come together to share their love of gardening and nature. While both physical and social in nature, gardening has the added benefits of beautifying a place and potentially supplying food to the local community, food banks, shelters or others in need of fresh produce. In encouraging use of selected areas of City parks or other City owned lands, additional community interest in the role and future of these spaces occurs and linkages within the community are strengthened. Working with Parks and Recreation. Parks and Recreation currently permits many garden sites throughout the City.
Community gardening is, as the name suggests, a communal experience.
Ideally community gardens have a co-ordinator who takes responsibility for organizing the work of the ensure group of community gardeners. Though small individual plots might be laid out, typically there are communal garden areas. The planted materials within a community garden should be selected by the volunteer community gardeners, in consultation with Parks and Recreation. There are various steps involved in setting up a community garden. A community group is to be identified consisting of a minimum of 5 or more committed gardeners.