Shelby Park Community Garden

WELCOME TO THE GARDEN!

Shelby Park Community Garden provides access to affordable, fresh produce grown by our gardeners using organic practices. Our community perimeter bed project provides free, fresh produce anyone may harvest.

Our collective Documents are available here for anyone to view.

NEW GARDENERS: Read our FAQ here. Please fill out this intake form & read our “Welcome to the Garden“ document for everything you need to know!

We always have garden roles to fill and projects that need captains and workers.

Location: Corner of E. St. Catherine and S. Hancock St. The garden land is privately owned by Ray Brown, who has kindly allowed gardeners to use this land.

Season: March - November

UPCOMING EVENTS:

New Gardener Orientation: Saturday, Feb 24th @ 2pm

New Gardener Orientation: Saturday, March 2nd @ 2pm

Ready to join the garden? Have questions or ideas? Contact Us:

Email: spcommunitygarden@gmail.com

Text:  (502) 309-9513

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It’s cute bug season!! 🐞🐛🦋🕷️🕸️🐝🪲
We have had a lot of new people expressing interest in the garden! Though our plots are currently full, feel free to join us for our work day in helping spruce up the garden + our community perimeter beds, and learn how you can get involved + how to
A little harvest.
We are excited to attend the @foodinneighborhoods People’s Summit next month! If you are interested in learning more about the urban agriculture community and local food justice work, this is the place to be. You can even register for free, but
Our 🧄 expert Deb Lynn showed us how to braid garlic at the garden over the weekend! We started at 7am, as dawn is the best time of the day to braid garlic. We learned a lot and hope to do it again next summer! You can learn more about Deb’s wo
Many moons ago, @jeffcoswcd helped us with our rain barrels. And we don’t know what we would do without them! We’ve added barrels over the years, and even split some barrels up for planters (thank you @louveganjerky!)
🌞sunflower & moonflower 🌝
Reflecting on the journey. Before pictures were taken in March, back when we were trying to envision what the growth *could* look like. A lot of this back space was all grass and overgrown weeds. Over the last year, it has become a space of trial and