Community Garden

The Fremont Community Garden is a multi-functional garden space that provides produce to our food pantry clients and low-income seniors and provides opportunities for enjoyment and learning. It is a treasured site of community activity where residents are invited to get involved, whether as a garden volunteer, with a community service project, or simply to enjoy and make use of the garden as a getaway from the hustle and bustle.

The Garden is designed and maintained according to permaculture and bio-intensive gardening principles, which emphasize the garden’s inter-relatedness with every aspect of the local ecosystem and promote biodiversity.

The garden is a plentiful source of sustainably grown, organic produce, featuring many uncommon and heirloom varieties of vegetables, such as artichokes, rutabagas, kale, rainbow chard and heirloom tomatoes as well as more common varieties.

Fruit growing at the garden includes raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, grapes and fruit trees.  Flowers are planted alongside crops to encourage the presence of beneficial insects that control garden pests, replacing the use of synthetic sprays.

Healthy soil is critical for growing healthy plants, so crops are never planted in the same spot as the previous season and compost are added. In future seasons, cover crops will be incorporated into the crop rotation to help further enhance soil health.

With so much growing, the garden is a great learning resource for individuals and groups interested in gardening. It is an outdoor classroom for all ages for learning how food grows and about sustainability. Local experts in gardening and beekeeping, including master gardeners, can host classes at the garden. Home gardeners should think of it as a resource- a living plant library and seed repository.

Our mission is to create and maintain a beautiful, productive, low maintenance, organic garden that will demonstrate gardening techniques (such as companion planting, cover crops, flowers, herbs, mulching, semi-permanent in-ground beds, edible perennials, and berries) while providing an educational and community-building opportunity for local residents.

Come on out to the Fremont Community Garden and see what’s growing!