Community Gardens: Making Your Community a Vibrant Place to Live

Community gardens provide space for residents to grow vegetables or flowers on municipally owned or leased land. The land is divided into plots and the plots are leased to residents, typically for a small fee. Residents plant and tend small gardens on these plots and reap a healthy harvest while enjoying a community atmosphere. This pamphlet emphasizes the importance of community gardens and provides information on the implementation of a community garden program