Orange Mound Garden
The community garden in Orange Mound was the inaugural garden of the GrowMemphis program. Currently a row garden, the Orange Mound community garden is working to yield enough produce to participate in gardeners markets throughout the city as well as provide healthy organic produce for members of the community. With participation from people within and from outside the community, the Orange Mound garden is planting its roots in the community and providing a productive green space in a neighborhood rich in culture and history.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Josephine Williams
901.725.4990
Merton Community Gardens (Binghamton)
The Merton Community Gardens are a collection of green spaces in the Binghamton area employing multiple methods of organic gardening including raised beds, tire gardening and row planting.
The Merton Garden extends to include the herb garden outside of Caritas Village. As one of the most culturally diverse areas of Memphis, the families in the community that take ownership of a bed or row are encouraged to have an open dialogue between members of the community as well as allowing a green space for everyone in the community.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Carl Awsumb
901.355.3241
Beltine Community Garden
The Beltine Community Garden is a garden in collaboration with Jacob’s Ladder, a non-profit organization that emphasizes community building and neighborhood revitalization in Memphis, TN. Beltline has begun tire gardening, using tires as planters promotes recycling and provides efficient planters that allow plants to grow and thrive.
The Beltline Community Garden is making strides to bridge the generational gap that has become apparent in the community. The garden provides a social venue by which people of all ages can work together at their own pace, bringing about empowering and delicious results.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Rev. Bill Marler
901.327.3771
St. Augustine Parkway Garden
The St. Augustine Parkway Community Garden is mainly comprised of raised beds and plots that different families in the community take ownership of, planting vegetables, herbs, berries and flowers.
The St. Augustine Parkway Community Garden is particularly interested in urban beautification as well a community development, emphasizing the need to bring green spaces and good nutrition into people’s lives.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Pat Lacey
901.938.2837
Cunningham Community Growers
Located at Cunningham Community Center (3373 Old Allen Road) the Cunningham Community Growers broke ground in August of 2008. Now in its first full growing season, the garden feature tire planters with tomatoes. pepper, eggplant and more! Children at the community center help care for the garden.
The produce grown in the garden is available to anyone who wants to come pick it up.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Cheryl Garnett
901-377-3037
Gardens Coming Soon:
• Brewster Elementary School Garden, contact Virginia Hopkins, hopkinsvirginiar@mcsk12.net (901) 416-7150
• Living Legacy Gardens, Contact Selena Smith or Bonita Whitfield, 901-672-7857
To visit a map of the gardens, click here.
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Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL)
The Memphis Center for Independent Living, located at 1633 Madison Ave, has introduced a garden in the courtyard behind their offices. The garden is equip with wheelchair accessible raised beds and are interested in informing the public on how to create and implement an accessible garden in a small space, specifically people in apartments.
The MCIL garden emphasizes gardening at no or very little cost, using free and recycled materials and vermicomposting.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Randy Alexander
901.726.6404
Memphis Urban Ministries (Vance Avenue) Garden
In partnership with Memphis Urban Ministry, the Vance Avenue Community Garden was started at 576 Vance Avenue in downtown Memphis in the spring of 2009. Due to the high lead content found in the soil, the Vance Garden is experimenting with recycled tire planters that allow the plants to be grown in healthy, uncontaminated soil. The garden aims to provide a source of fresh, organic produce to a community that lacks adequate access to fresh foods while creating an environment that promotes racial and economic reconciliation.
The garden also serves to provide educational opportunities for those seeking to lead a healthy lifestyle.
and develop short-term work opportunities for residents in the community.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Contact: Ryan Fowler
901.312.3486
ryan.fowler@memphisurbanministry.com
Follow the Vance Garden: http://mumurbanfarmer.blogspot.com
Uptown Community Gardens
Using land donated by the St Stephen Church this project is a collaborative effort of the Memphis Rotary, Grow Memphis, Church of the Holy Community, St Stephens Baptist Church, First Methodist Church, Girls Incorporated, BRIDGES, and the Uptown Garden Association.
The garden will be yielding food year round, and plots are assigned to families, individuals, community groups and local churches. The ultimate goals of the Uptown Community Garden are to provide a park-like atmosphere to neighboring residents, give people a place to work together and meet new people, supply fresh produce to local food banks, and provide quality horticultural education to participants.
Contact: Tanja Mitchell
901.949.1309
Savory Patches
Savory Patches is tended by members of the 35th Ward Civic Club in the Riverview-Kansas neighborhood of South Memphis. The garden was started for the community by Sow to Grow, an initiative of Shelby County Mayor A. C. Wharton, which employees inmates from the Shelby County Division of Corrections to plant community gardens in cooperation with University of Tennessee Agriculture extension.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Carlotta Hill
901.550.2554
Angelus Community Garden
Neighborhood residents have individual garden plots to grow vegetables and flowers as well as work together to cultivate shared garden space. The construction of the new Angelus Community Garden was sponsored by the Drake & Zeke morning show with help from Digger O’Dell Nursery and several other local companies.
The garden features raised beds that they are accessible to wheelchair users and the elderly.
To find out more about volunteering or giving to the garden, contact:
Sandi Klink
901.831.1758
