Start Your Own Community Garden

If you live in an apartment, condo or home that’s not hospitable to planting, joining a community garden can give you a way to:

Grow healthy fruits and vegetables while reducing your grocery bill and improving nutrition.
Spend time with neighbors in the outdoors.
Contribute to the greening of your community, which improves air quality and optimum use of public lands.

Plan. Start by enlisting neighbors and partners, and get support from the County. Finding a site that’s suitable is also important to making sure your garden is a success.
Grow. To avoid contaminated soils so frequently found in urban areas, it’s best to build either a raised bed or container garden. Choosing the right plants and green gardening practices will also help your garden grow.
Manage. Create a management plan that shows exactly what’s expected of participants and how the group will manage its resources.