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 Putting the Gardens Back in the Garden City


Missoula's Community Gardens

Northside Community Gardens
Northside Gardeners grow a wide variety of crops.

Garden plots are sold out for the 2008 growing season!

Neighborhood-based community gardens provide many benefits to Missoula residents, including: household garden plots; access to tools and advice; and beautiful places where families and neighbors gather to enjoy growing healthy, delicious food.
Community Gardens are supported in part by United Way, and many individual donors. Cost is $25 for the season plus a $15 clean-up deposit.

> Specific Garden Information

Community gardens are a well-established way of helping low-income people meet their own needs for healthy food. Families without yard space of their own can rent a small plot to grow their own vegetables.

 

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.

Community gardens are an oasis of beauty and peace.

Community gardens and greening projects work to affect change at the heart of where change is needed most: in low-income neighborhoods. 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.

Specific Garden Information:

ASUM GardenASUM Community Gardens Garden Organizer: Staci Short, (207)337-5259, asumgarden@yahoo.com


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.
Students have preference in garden plots. There are food aid plots for the Volunteers for Veggies Program.

 

East Missoula Garden
Meadow Hill/Flagship School and Community GardenGarden Organizer: Betsy Defries, 207.1117
Location: 4210 S. Reserve St, at the end of 24th Street.
This garden has 15 plots for lease and uses a small number of volunteers, in collaboration with the Flagship program at Meadowhill School.


Orchard Gardens Community Gardens and Mini-Farm
Garden Organizer: Sarah Bortis, 728.8835
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 host community garden plots and a CSA mini-farm.

Northside GardenNorthside Community Garden Garden Organizer: Contact Tim Hall, 550.3663
Location: Cooley and Holmes / Bus- Route 3
Plots are very popular with the Northside residents and usually go fast.

 

Greg Price
Greg Price, River Road Organizer

River Road Community Garden and Neighborhood Farm Garden Organizer: Greg Price, 240-3848
Location: 1697 River Road / Bus- Route 9
Very large area with lots of garden plots for lease, food aid plots, and home to Grubshed, a CSA program.
Needs: 4-6 volunteers for every shift plus one big workday a month with 10+ volunteers

Second Street Garden
Garden Organizer:
Tim Hall, 550.3663
Location: 1270 Second St. West
This garden is in partnership with the neighborhood where this garden is located.

Basic ingredients of a community garden:

  • On-site tools so gardeners can walk to the site without having to carry tools. Also, gardeners don’t have to own their own tools.
  • Water provided for irrigation.
  • Community spaces. Herb and flower gardens, children’s gardens and other shared areas are common elements.
  • Amenities such as a picnic table, a shady spot or a play area add greatly to the garden space. We make sure all our sites are kid-friendly and good family places.
  • Rules or Guidelines: All of the gardens have them. They address issues such as abandoned plots, weeds, parking or watering restrictions when applicable.
  • We are kid friendly!

Contact Information
Tim Hall is the Community Garden Director. His phone number is 550.3663 and email is: timofmissoula@earthlink.net

The Garden Organizers are:

Greg Price, River Road Organizer: 240.3848

Sarah Bortis, Orchard Gardens Organizer:
728.8835

Matt Anderson, Northside Garden Organizer: 531.1387

Stacy Short, ASUM Garden Organizer: 207.337.5259 asumgarden@yahoo.com

Betsy Defries, Meadow Hill/Flagship Garden Organizer: 207.1117

Tim Hall, 2nd Street Garden Organizer: 550.3663




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(406) 523-3663
gardencityharvest@gmail.com

Office Hours:
Monday 10:00- 3:00pm
Thursday 10:00- 3:00pm