Community Gardens

Land for Community Gardens

Image Fayetteville Community Garden

• Access to Clean Water
• Healthy Soil
• Minimum of 6 hours Sunlight
• Safe and Easily Accessible for Gardeners
• Places to Look for Land To Garden

• Parks
• Communities of Faith
• Schools
• Community and Senior Centers
• Vacant Lots
• Flood Plain
• Planning and Zoning Department
• Negotiate with Landowner
• Length of Lease (recommend no less than 5 years)
• Who will provide water 7 security
• What liability insurance will be required
• Fee (and when due)
• Resources provided by the landowner
• Grounds for termination of lease
• Primary contact for gardeners and landowner
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 Interested in purchasing the land to make the Community Garden Permanent?

Below is a list of land conservation organizations that either have ‘garden’ in their title or have indicated on the Land Trust Alliance2010 census that ‘urban parks, gardens or open spaces' were ‘very’ or ‘extremely important’ priorities.

 

The Land Trust Alliance has offered to help Community Gardening groups connect with these organizations by: making introductions; helping to gauge organizational interest; facilitating land acquisition; and partnering in other ways.

 

MOUNTAIN

Blue Ridge Conservancy, PO Box 568, Boone, NC, 28607-0568

Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, 847 Case Street, Hendersonville, NC, 28792-6503

Saluda Community Land Trust, PO Box 732, Saluda, NC, 28773-0732

PIEDMONT

Davidson Lands Conservancy, PO Box 1952, Davidson, NC, 28036-1952

Piedmont Land Conservancy, PO Box 4025, 1515 W Cornwallis Rd, Ste 205, Greensboro, NC, 27404-4025

Triangle Greenways Council, 520 Polk St., Raleigh, NC 27604-1960

Triangle Land Conservancy, 1101 Haynes St Ste 205, Raleigh, NC, 27604-1455

Coastal Plain

Northeast New Hanover Conservancy, 1513 Futch Creek Rd, Wilmington, NC, 28411-9375

 

Thank you to Lisa Poser for gathering this information.