Garden Directory: Saint Paul and West Saint Paul Community Gardens
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1288 Forest Street Garden
1288 Forest Street, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Beautification, Food Production
Aurora/St. Anthony's Community Peace
Sanctuary
851 Aurora Avenue, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Beautification, Food Production
The garden started in 2000 when community people started meeting and developing the proposal for the garden on a vacant lot. Today, the garden grows food and flowers, and provides a safe social environment for area students and families. The garden’s goals are to promote environmental literacy through urban gardening, and to encourage community solutions to common problems, and thereby strengthening community ties and creating positive outlets. The garden is supported by community members and students from the Unidale Area Learning Center, who gain civic and community learning in addition to academic study related to urban environmental, economic, business, community, health and social issues.
Cathedral Hill Homes Garden
280 Dayton Ave, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Food Production
Celeste's
Dream Community Garden
1884 Randolph Ave, St. Paul
Education, Food Production, Food Donation
Celeste’s Dream Community Garden is sponsored by Celeste’s Dream: Spirituality for Young Adults Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Enjoy healthy produce, learn organic gardening, give to those in need and dig into the big picture. Located in the yard behind the O’Shaughenessy Auditorium. More information can be found at www.csjstpaul.org or by calling 651-696-2872.
Churchill Gardens
Intersection of Horton,Van Slyke, and Churchill St, St. Paul
Beautification
Churchill Community Garden was established in 1999 . Created on a barren triangle of St. Paul park property in Como Park, the garden is supported by neighbors. Churchill Community Garden consists of five perennial beds: two mixed flower gardens; a sedum and grass bed; a daffodil and day lily garden; and a garden surrounding a sign made by a neighbor. A beautiful granite boulder also adorns the grass garden. We invite you to see gardening styles that reflect our area’s diversity.
Dodge Nature Center Community Garden
1701 Charlton St, West St Paul
Education, Individual Plots
The Dodge Nature Center Community Garden has existed in various forms since the 1960’s. It began as a teaching garden and evolved into a community garden. Since we are joined with a nature center, ecologically friendly gardening is part of our mission and the garden is managed using organic methods. On-site compost for fertilizer and straw mulch are available to gardeners. It has thirty-five 15’x 15’ plots available and is open during daylight hours. The garden generally draws from and serves the communities of West St Paul, St Paul’s west side, and Mendota Heights.
TWO GARDENS...
Dunning
Community Garden
1221 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul at the Intersection of Concordia Blvd &
Griggs Blvd (between Hamline & Lexington)
Food Production, Individual Plots
Established in 2006, The Dunning Community Garden, provides a place for residents to grow a diversity of produce in the heart of St. Paul. This garden is possible thanks to the people, organizations and businesses that support it: St. Paul Parks and Rec workers, Ramsey County Sentence to Service, Kor and his immigrant volunteers, students from Skills for Tomorrow School, Farm in the City employees, Gardenworks staff, St. Paul Garden Club, Flannery Construction, and, of course, the gardeners. While Farm in the City manages the garden, it run and maintained by the gardeners.
Farm
in the City's Dunning Park Children's Garden
1221 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul -- just north of Dunning Recreation Center
Youth Programming, Food Production
The Farm in the City Children's Garden is a teaching garden for the children who participate in Farm in the City's summer youth day camp. Here, children learn about the connection between what we grow and what we eat. They learn about composting, photosynthesis, beneficial insects, organic plants, and the beauty of helping things grow. In the center of the garden is a mosaic made by artists and children, showing the xylem and phloem of a plant. You have to see it. This garden reminds us that our connection to gardening and the earth can be passed on to the next generation with joy.
Eleanor Graham Community Garden
1335 Ashland Ave, St. Paul
Beautification, Food Production, Individual Plots
The Eleanor Graham Community Garden, managed by the Snelling Hamline Gardens Committee, features some thirty plots for seasonal rent by our neighbors. It has grown from its ten original plots in 1982 to thirty plots. In 2007, A restoration process was started to care for our two ancient oaks and to groom the common space, making the garden a destination and community gathering place. In addition, The garden was gifted this year with five fruit trees -- plum, cherry and apricot -- and also sports a newly planting flower bed around our sign at the entrance to the garden. The garden has just received a CURA grant, which means that a graduate student from the university will soon assist us in a redesign project! Your suggestions are valued.
Farm in the City's Concordia University
Farm Site
Concordia University, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Food Production
Farm in the City at Highland High School
975 Snelling Ave South, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Food Production
Fire Station 19
St. Paul Ave & Edgcumbe Rd, St. Paul
Beautification
Fran & Gladys' Community Garden
680 Dale Street, St. Paul
Beautification
Fran and Glady’s Community Garden started in 2001 as a partnership between Fran and District 7. There are 2 large raised beds. The garden was created to bring people together in the Frogtown Neighborhood.
Highland Perennial Garden
Montreal and Edgecumbe, St. Paul
Beautification
Holy Trinity Church Garden
956 Forest Street, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Beautification, Food Production
Horton Park Community Gardens
Hamline and Englewood, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Beautification, Education
The Friends of Horton Park maintain several native plant gardens in this one-block-square city park in the Hamline Midway neighborhood. They meet monthly during the growing season to care for the native plants in oak savanna, prairie, and shade gardens, bringing together community members that include seniors from the adjacent high rise, students from Hamline University, and K-8 students from the school across the street. Interpretive signs and plant labels help educate visitors about the gardens. The Friends welcome additional volunteers. See website for more information: http://www.hamline.edu/~ghankerson01/events.html
Macalester Urban Land & Cmty Health-MULCH
Garden
Snelling Ave and Osceola, St. Paul
Beautification, Food Production
MULCH (Macalester Urban Land & Community Health) is an 11 year old student organization supporting a student run community garden at Macalester College. MULCH acts as a first introduction to community gardening and offers an education for students on where their food comes from, how it is grown and helps build community among students, faculty, staff and the neighborhood. This is an especially significant year for MULCH as the garden moved to a new location bordering the language houses at Macalester. All are welcome to come see the new community garden space that has a larger presence in the surrounding community, and is incorporating permaculture techniques. We hope to nurture this space for another 10 years like the old site!
Midway Greenspirit Garden
Pierce Butler and Hamline Ave, St. Paul
Beautification, Food Production, Food Donation, Individual Plots
Located in the Hamline-Midway area, our community garden is about growing relationships. Since 2003, our garden has sought to increase the connections among community members and counteract isolation. We believe that by coming together cooperatively over the garden, we strengthen our community. Vegetable gardening is a means to this end. In addition to bringing together individual gardeners, we reach out to the community to provide education, opportunities for service, and a gathering place for other organizations. We beautify our community by creating a garden that satisfies both our stomachs and our eyes.
Minnesota Women Suffrage Garden
Cedar Ave & Martin Luther King Blvd, St. Paul
Beautification
Phalen Poetry Park
987 Ivy Avenue, St. Paul
Beautification
Phalen Poetry Park is a small, almost hidden, community garden sponsored by the East Side Arts Council. It is playfully designed as a sleepy dragon whose spikes of feather reed grass encircle a dry pebble pond where children hop from stone to stone. Benches cast in the shape of open books invite contemplation and enjoyment of the plantings. A path winds to both the Poetry Post, a sculptural piece featuring local poets and students, and to the Marimba Benches, welcoming you to tap out a tune. The garden can be easily accessed from the parking lot of the Phalen Recreation Center, 1000 Wheelock Parkway.
Phalen Village
Community Garden of District 2
Maryland and Hazelwood, St. Paul
Food Production, Individual Plots
The Phalen Village Community Garden is a well-known vegetable garden tended by Southeast Asian and Hmong residents. Established in 1997 on land donated by the National Guard Armory, the garden has increased participation in the neighborhood. The Armory shares responsibility for the annual lease agreement with the District 2 Council. There are fifty-three individual plots where gardeners grow vegetables to keep, sell at the farmer’s market, or donate to food shelves. Our garden features unusual vegetables that would be interesting for others to learn about. We encourage people to tour our garden to share information about foods and culture.
Saint Anthony Park Community Garden
At Robbins and Raymond Ave, St. Paul
Beautification, Food Production, Individual Plots
The Saint Anthony Park Community Garden was established in 1981 by neighborhood gardening enthusiasts on land leased from Burlington Northern Railroad. Over the years, and with lots of community assistance, the garden grew to ninety-six plots. In 1998 the land was purchased from the railroad by the Saint Anthony Park Community Council with funds raised by gardeners, local businesses, and government grants. The garden is designated as organic, with perennial plots, plowed plots, and flower plots. Gardeners pay an annual fee which includes access to a watering system. A volunteer coordinating team manages the garden. Check out their Blog.
Sam Eddy Memorial Garden
1280 Arcade Street, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Beautification, Food Production
Summit Monument Garden
Summit Ave & Mississippi River Blvd, St. Paul
Beautification
The
Garden of Good Hearts
Congress and South Wabasha, St. Paul
Beautification
The Garden of Good Hearts (GGH), a neighborhood flower garden, is a classic example of the community coming before the community garden. In 1992 a dozen West Side residents gathered to discuss a weedy, debris-filled lot in the neighborhood, giving birth to the Riverview Garden Club (RGC) and the Garden of Good Hearts. The GGH is a valuable resource for the community to appreciate nature, and come together in friendship to beautify the neighborhood. Now over seventy households support the RGC & the GGH. Please visit our urban oasis.
The Red River Ox-Cart Trail Garden
St Anthony Street and Raymond Ave, St. Paul
Beautification, Education
Totem Town Community Garden
391 South Winthrop, St. Paul
Beautification, Food Production, Food Donation, Individual Plots
The Totem Town Community Garden draws fifty gardeners on a two-acre tract administered by the Ramsey County Corrections Department; the Corrections staff have been great partners to keep community gardening growing. In 1998 gardeners took over operations, and in 2006 the District One Community Council became our sponsor. Gardeners have added three plant-covered trellises, a curving hedge, a salvaged plant garden, native plantings, and a small orchard. In 2006, third grade and high school students planted lively and colorful raised beds, and in 2007 we have two plots for food shelf donations.
William Gehling Memorial Garden
313 Dale Street North, St. Paul
Beautification, Food Production
Redeemers Arms was built in 1964 and the area for the garden was acquired as part of the property at that time. Established in 1998, the garden's only expenditure over the years is membership to the Minnesota Green program. Recently, The Apollo Club moved into our basement and expressed an interest in participating in the garden and even paid for the Minnesota Green membership for a couple years. To find the garden from Dale Street , then go west on Carroll, take St. Albans to the first right, take Concordia to the back parking lot. Next to the tool shed/garage is the garden gate, and the garden is in the center of the block, surrounded on three sides by other people's property.
Youth Farm & Market - West Side Gardens
85 E Page, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Food Production
This farm site is located near La Puerta Abierta, a local Latino church, and we work with Humboldt Junior/Senior High School students. (Our second site has a year-round heated greenhouse on the grounds of the Cherokee Heights Elementary School.) Most of the food grown goes into our lunches or is sold at our market. Youth Farm and Market Project mission is to nurture relationships between urban youth and their families, their communities, and the earth around them by growing, cooking, eating and selling healthy food. Visit us at www.youthfarm.net
Youth Farm & Market - West Side Gardens
Baker Recreation Center, St. Paul
Youth Programming, Food Production
Youth Farm & Market - West Side Gardens
Dodge Nature Center, West St Paul
Youth Programming, Food Production
Phone: (612) 278-7123 - info@gardenworksMN.org