Missoula's Community Gardens

Northside Gardeners grow a wide variety of crops.

Thanks for your interest in Community Gardening

We've still got a few plots, and we're keeping a wait list, too.

If you are interested in a garden plot, please call Lind Sliter, 406.239.8236.

Garden Plot Fees:
Refundable Deposit: $15
Rental fee: $40
Total due on Opening Day: $55 ($15 will be refunded at the end of the season if the plot is cleaned)
We have living lightly payment options.  Please call (406-550-3663) or email Genevieve for information.  Community Gardens are supported in part by United Way, and many individual donors.

Questions? give us a call (406-550-3663) or email Genevieve.

Community Gardening: the basics

We run seven community gardens in Missoula, helping Missoulians without yard space have a place to grow their own. For $40 plus a deposit you get a 15' x 15' plot, tools, straw, compost, and water. Our garden coordinators are also available to gardeners with questions and concerns. All gardens have community spaces and many have a kid's area and shade structure.

Community gardens are working vibrant green spaces shared by neighborhood residents and the public. We locate them in low-income neighborhoods, which tend to be very urbanized, and they specifically serve people without access to their own (open space) land. They are developed by the people who live there, promoting a shift to the gardeners as “owners” and leaders of projects.

Research and our experience clearly show that community gardeners make more use of gardens in their immediate neighborhoods. So, while we have opportunities to increase plots at existing gardens, our preference is to add new locations in low-income neighborhoods.

2nd Street Community Garden
Garden Organizer: Linda Sliter
Location: 1270 2nd St. West
Started by a group of community organizing neighbors, this garden has deep roots in its community. 15 plots, native perennial garden.

ASUM Community Garden
Garden Organizer: Micah Sewell
Location: Behind student housing on Higgins Avenue, one block before Pattee Canyon Road. Turn into student housing and go behind the apartments to the dirt road leading to the greenhouses.
70 + plots primaraly for the University of Montana's community. Students have preference in garden plots.

Garden of Eaton Community Garden
Garden Organizer:Linda Sliter
Location: Blessed Trinity Parish, 1475 Eaton St., between Blessed Trinity Parish Church and the Poverello Centers Joesph Residence and MacClay Commons. The garden is run in collaboration with Blessed Trinity Parish and the Joseph's Residence and offers kids cooking and gardening classes, a shade structure, and automatic sprinkler system. Gardening and cooking classes taught by Garden City Harvest's Community Education Program and the Poverello Center's staff.

Meadow Hill/Flagship School and Community Garden Organizer: Linder Sliter
Location: 4210 S. Reserve St, at the end of 24th Street.
This garden has 26 plots for lease and uses a small number of volunteers, in collaboration with the Flagship program at Meadowhill School. Gardening and cooking classes taught by Garden City Harvest's Community Education Program staff.

Orchard Gardens Community Gardens and Neighborhood Farm Manager: Sarah Bortis
Location: This garden is located at homeWORD's affordable housing site, just west of Reserve on 210 N. Grove Street.
This is a unique partnership melding affordable housing and food security issues. This site hosts 10 community garden plots and a 1 acre neighborhood farm. Gardening and cooking classes taught by Garden City Harvest's Community Education Program staff.

Northside Community Garden

Garden Organizer:Linda Sliter
Location: Cooley and Holmes / Bus- Route 3
70 + plots, hops tepee, picnic area. Northside neighborhood icon that was started in partnership with MUD.

Greg Price, River Road Organizer

River Road Community Garden and Neighborhood Farm

Manager : Greg Price, 240-3848
Location: 1697 River Road / Bus- Route 9
55 community garden plots, kid's area, and home to Grubshed, a CSA program.