Community Gardens

Community gardens are places where many people can grow food together on the same piece of land.

Farming Best practices for sustainable agriculture.

In many community gardens, individuals (or families) have exclusive use of a garden plot or plots for the growing season. In others, garden plots are shared.

Community garden ownership models are quite varied. Many are owned and managed by non-profit organizations. Others are co-ops, or operated by private businesses. Some are managed by city parks departments or other institutional bodies.

Community gardens provide many benefits, especially in urban areas. These include:

*Opportunity for apartment-dwellers and others without personal garden space to grow their own food

*Increased green space (with associated benefits for hydrology, microclimate, and biodiversity)

*Enhanced food security

*An arena for community-building and development of local self-reliance

Community gardens can help alleviate "food deserts" — areas where there is little availability of fresh, healthy food, especially in low-income and marginalized urban neighbourhoods.

Community Gardens Resources

Pender Community Garden

Local community gardens organization.

Strathcona Community Garden

Community garden with 200 garden plots and 104 food trees. Operated by Strathcona Community Gardeners Society.

Rooted for Life Garden

Local community gardens organization.

Langara College Garden

Community garden with 26 garden plots.

South Vancouver Family Place 1 garden

Community garden with 8 garden plots. Operated by South Vancouver Family Place.

Ladybug Garden

Community garden with 46 garden plots and 7 food trees. Operated by The Britannia Community Services Centre Society.

Robson Park Coop Garden

Community garden with 40 garden plots. Operated by Robson Park Co-op.

Bosman Hotel Garden

Community garden with 12 garden plots. Operated by Bosman Hotel Society.

Killarney Garden

Community garden with 20 garden plots. Operated by Killarney community centre.

Brewery Creek Community Garden

Community garden with 40 garden plots and 11 food trees. Operated by Urban Diggers Society.

Grandview Terrace Garden

Community garden with 12 garden plots. Operated by BC Housing.

Hastings Community Centre Learning Garden

Community garden with 25 garden plots. Operated by Seasons of Food.

Kitsilano Neighbourhood House garden

Community garden with 5 garden plots. Operated by Kitsilano Neighbourhood House.

St. Augustines Anglican Church garden

Community garden with 8 garden plots. Operated by St. Augustines Anglican Church.

Village on False Creek Garden

Community garden with 45 garden plots. Operated by Village on False Creek Community Gardens Society.

Il Centro Community Garden (Beaconsfield Park)

Community garden with 40 garden plots and 40 food trees. Operated by Italian Cultural Centre.

Chilean Housing Coop Garden

Community garden with 10 garden plots. Operated by Chilean Housing Coop .

HFBC Housing Foundation Garden - 5th Avenue

Community garden with 12 garden plots.

Grandview Elementary Community Garden

Community garden with 24 garden plots and yes food trees. Operated by Grandview Garden Coordinator (VCH SMART funding).

Moberley Cultural Herb Garden

Community garden with 5 garden plots. Operated by Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre.

Kitsilano Christian Community Church garden

Community garden with 7 garden plots. Operated by Kitsilano Christian Community Church.

MOBY Community Garden

Community garden with 45 garden plots. Operated by My Own Back Yard.

Hemlock Court garden

Community garden with 4 garden plots. Operated by Hemlock Court Housing/Metro Housing.

Marpole Place expansion garden

Community garden with 6 garden plots.

Robson Park Community Garden

Community garden with 44 garden plots. Operated by Urban Diggers Society.

Deeper Roots Seniors Community Garden

Community garden with 10 garden plots. Operated by Oakridge Adventist Church.

Nelson Park Community Garden

Community garden with 38 garden plots and Y food trees. Operated by Nelson Park Community Garden Society.

Chinatown Peace Church Garden

Community garden with 10 garden plots. Operated by Chinatown Peace Church.

The James Garden & Social Community

Community garden with 12 garden plots.

Creekside Community Recreation Centre Collaborative Garden

Community garden with 23 garden plots and 10 food trees. Operated by Creekside Community Centre Staff.

The World in a Garden

Community garden with 20 garden plots. Operated by World in a Garden.

China Creek Community Garden

Community garden with 23 garden plots and 3 food trees. Operated by Urban Diggers Society.

Habitat Villa - Metro Housing garden

Community garden with 4 garden plots. Operated by Habitat Villa/Metro Housing.

Wall Street Community Garden

Community garden with 42 garden plots. Operated by Kiwassa Neighbourhood Services Association.

Our Lady of Sorrows Convent garden

Community garden with 9 garden plots. Operated by Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist.

Fraserlands Community Garden (Riverfront Park)

Community garden with 38 garden plots. Operated by South Vancouver Family Place.

Menno Simmons centre Garden

Community garden with 10 garden plots.

HFBC Housing Foundation Garden - Venables St

Community garden with 12 garden plots. Operated by HFBC Housing Foundation .

Charleson Park Community Garden

Community garden with 38 garden plots. Operated by False Creek South Neighbourhood Association.

Aberthau Garden Project

Community garden with 10 garden plots.

McSpadden Park Community Garden

Community garden with 18 garden plots. Operated by McSpadden Agricultural Project Society.

Kerrisdale Community Garden

Community garden with 22 garden plots and 4 food trees. Operated by Kerrisdale Community Garden Committee (under Kerrisdale Community Centre Society).

Trillium Park North Artists Garden

Community garden with 4 garden plots. Operated by Earthand Gleaners Society.

SPEC Rooftop Garden

Community garden with 9 garden plots. Operated by SPEC.

East Boulevard Allotment Plots

Community garden with 71 garden plots. Operated by City of Vancouver.

Hastings St Folk Garden

Community garden with 150 garden plots. Operated by Portland Housing Society.

China Creek Housing Co-op Garden

Community garden with 30 garden plots. Operated by China Creek Housing Co-op.

15th Avenue Coop garden

Community garden with 8 garden plots.

City Hall expansion garden

Community garden with 10 garden plots. Operated by pending.

The Rise on Cambie

Community garden with 18 garden plots. Operated by Strata Council.

Means of Production Garden

Community garden with 20 garden plots and 25 food trees. Operated by Environmental Youth Alliance.

Brightside Home Foundation - King's Daughters garden

Community garden with 3 garden plots. Operated by Brightside Community Homes Foundation.

SPEC Cambie Communal Garden

Community garden with 17 garden plots. Operated by SPEC.

Brightside Home Foundation - Wallace Wilson garden

Community garden with 3 garden plots. Operated by Brightside Community Homes Foundation.

Mole Hill Garden

Community garden with 70 garden plots and 1 food trees. Operated by Gordon Neighbourhood House.

Cottonwood Community Garden

Community garden with 139 garden plots and 26 food trees. Operated by Strathcona Community Gardeners Society.

Urban Acres

Community garden with 30 garden plots. Operated by Urban Acres.

Let's Grow Together! Community Garden

Community garden with 6 garden plots. Operated by St. David of Wales Angclican Church.

Marpole Family Place

Community garden with 8 garden plots. Operated by Marpole Family Place.

Grass Roots Community Garden

Community garden with 10 garden plots. Operated by Servants Canada.

Cedar Cottage Community Garden

Community garden with 61 garden plots and 13 food trees. Operated by Cedar Cottage Garden Society .

Chester's Field Garden

Community garden with 10 garden plots and 3 food trees. Operated by Fraser Kensington Community Garden Society.

Elisabeth Rogers Community Garden

Community garden with 56 garden plots and 12 food trees. Operated by Urban Diggers Society.

HFBC Housing Foundation Garden - Euclid St

Community garden with 12 garden plots. Operated by HFBC Housing Foundation .

Kaslo Gardens Community Vegetable Garden

Community garden with 16 garden plots. Operated by Kaslo Gardens Housing Cooperative.

Cypress Community Garden

Community garden with 66 garden plots.

Millross Gardens on Main

Community garden with 130 garden plots. Operated by Amacon.

CROWS Point Community Garden

Community garden with 30 garden plots. Operated by CROWS Point Community Garden Society.

Lakeview United Church garden

Community garden with 6 garden plots. Operated by Lakeview United Church.

Church of the Good Sheppard garden

Community garden with 8 garden plots.

Emma G Coop garden

Community garden with 8 garden plots.

16 Oaks Garden

Community garden with 55 garden plots.

Cheyenne Community Garden

Community garden with 37 garden plots and 7 food trees. Operated by Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society.

Cedar Cottage Neighourhood House Edible Garden

Community garden with 12 garden plots. Operated by Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House.

Matheson Heights Housing Coop Garden

Community garden with 16 garden plots.

Pandora Park Community Garden

Community garden with 66 garden plots and 4 food trees. Operated by Pandora Park Community Garden Society.

Jacob's Well #1 Garden

Community garden with 120 garden plots. Operated by Jacob's Well.

Collingwood Community Gardens

Community garden with 30 garden plots. Operated by Renfrew Collingwood Food Security Institute.

Cityview Baptist Church garden

Community garden with 6 garden plots and 1 food trees. Operated by Neighbours.

Pine Street Community Garden (6th and Fir Park)

Community garden with 20 garden plots and 16 food trees. Operated by Pine Street Community Garden Society.

Maclean Housing Garden

Community garden with 65 garden plots.

Jacob's Well #2 Garden

Community garden with 120 garden plots. Operated by Jacob's Well.

Mount Pleasant Community Garden

Community garden with 30 garden plots and 16 food trees. Operated by Urban Diggers Society.

DTES Market location garden

Community garden with 6 garden plots. Operated by DTES Market.

Kitsilano Community Garden

Community garden with 55 garden plots and 15 food trees. Operated by Kitsilano Community Garden Association.

City Hall Lawn Garden

Community garden with 36 garden plots and 6 food trees. Operated by Evergreen.

Vera Community Garden

Community garden with 12 garden plots.

Kitsilano Community Centre Garden

Community garden with 15 garden plots. Operated by Kitsilano Community Centre Association.

Dunbar and 41st Garden

Community garden with 36 garden plots. Operated by Shifting Growth.

Kiwassa Neighbourhood House Community Garden

Community garden with 11 garden plots. Operated by Kiwassa Neighbourhood House.

Community Alternatives Coop Community Garden

Community garden with 20 garden plots.

Copley Community Orchard

Community garden with 3 garden plots and 100 food trees. Operated by Copley Community Orchard Society.

Woodland Park Community Garden

Community garden with 64 garden plots and 3 food trees. Operated by Village Vancouver Transition Society.

Davie Village Garden

Community garden with 100 garden plots. Operated by Vancouver Public Space Network.

Cambie Park Community Garden

Community garden with 30 garden plots. Operated by Marpole Oakridge Community Association.

Chimo Terrace Youth Garden

Community garden with 5 garden plots. Operated by Grandview Woodlands Food Connection.

Sahalli Community Garden

Community garden with 54 garden plots. Operated by Urban Diggers Society.

John McBride Community Garden

Community garden with 49 garden plots and 1 food trees. Operated by Creek Community Gardeners (under False Creek South Neig'd Assoc.).

UP! Elgin community garden

Community garden with 35 garden plots and 4 food trees. Operated by Fraser Kensington Community Garden Society.

Norquay Community Learning Orchard

Community garden with 11 garden plots and 20 food trees. Operated by Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society.

Princess and Cordova Garden

Community garden with 20 garden plots. Operated by Servants Canada.

SPEC Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden

Community garden operated by SPEC.

Maple Community Garden

Community garden with 63 garden plots and 4 food trees. Maple Community Garden was founded in 1989 and is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, along the Arbutus Corridor in the Kitsilano area. There are approximately 75 members, seven member...

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