Community Gardens
Community Gardens
Gainesville Community Gardens
There is no charge for the gardens developed by the City, which include the first five on the list.
Dreamer’s Garden
Location: NW 4th St & 10th Ave, Gainesville
Contact: Maria Huff Edwards ~ Phone: 258-1238 ~ Email: maria0407@bellsouth.net
McRorie Community Garden
Location: SE 4th Ave. & 6th Terrace, Gainesville
Contact: Maura Brady ~ Phone: 371-7327 ~ Email: maurakbrady@gmail.com
Susan’s Garden (Inglewood)
Location: SW 40th St. / 700 block, Gainesville
Contact: Julia Reiskind ~ Phone: 378-8290 ~ Email: jbreiskind@yahoo.com
Location: 911 NW 5th Ave.
Contact: Caleb ~ Phone: 871-5571 ~ Email: kbstewart@gmail.com
UF Organic Gardens
UF Organic Gardens (you don’t have to be a student)
SW 23rd Terrace (1/4 mile south of Archer Road)
Fee-15$/6 months, includes tool, etc…
For information or to join the garden, visit their website: http://sites.google.com/site/uforganicgardens/
UF Ethnoecology Gardens (you don’t have to be student)
Find them on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ethnoecology-Society/139172371051
UF Student Agricultural Gardens
Near the bathouse at UF
http://www.sg.ufl.edu/GovernmentBranches/Executive/Agencies/GatorsGoingGreen/GetInvolved
Porter’s Community Garden
Location: SW 3rd St. & 5th Ave., Gainesville
Contact: Liz Nesbit ~ Phone: 359-9029 ~ Email: info@citizensco-op.com
Highlands Prebyterian Community Gardens
1001 NE 16th Ave
http://www.highlandsgainesville.org/community-gardens
Micanopy Communinity Garden
http://transitionmicanopy.wordpress.com/
Downtown Farmers Garden
In the heart of downtown Gainesville, a great example of lawn to food.
Interested in starting a community garden?
Contact: John Weber (City of Gainesville Parks & Rec)
Phone: 393-8186
Email: weberjf@cityofgainesville.org
City of High Springs Community Gardens
Two gardens: Downtown Community Garden and the Douglass Neighborhood Garden
The cost of renting a plot is $15 per growing season or $25 a year. Plots are free to persons on public assistance programs who would like to participate.
This fee covers the irrigation of the garden and topsoil as well as the organic mushroom compost. Each Community Garden contains (25) twenty-five 4x8 raised bed plots with topsoil and organic mushroom compost.
The Downtown Community Garden is located behind High Springs City Hall on NW 2nd Avenue, adjacent to the High Springs Farmers Market. The Douglass Community Garden is a neighborhood garden located at Douglas Street and SE Taylor Ave.
The Douglass Garden features a handicapped accessible table garden. This is an elevated 4x8 plot with a bottom raised to a height that enables a person in a wheel chair to tend this garden or a gardener to stand and work the plot
Notes: Open plots are used to cultivate produce for sale at the Farmers Market or to give to social services to help feed the hungry. Educational opportunities are provided free to participants by the University of Florida IFAS, the Alachua County Agricultural Extension Office, Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Program, Bennett’s True Value Hardware store and Ace Hardware on a variety of topics.
For more information contact Lys Burden at WPBurden@aol.com; 386-454-8456.
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