Collective gardens are gardens that are managed communally by a group of people. Many collective gardens grow produce for donation. Some are open to the public to get involved, others are exclusively for the staff/volunteers/clientele of a particular agency.
Aetewahyahrónsheke (We All Grow Together)
Description: Aetewahyahrónsheke is an Indigenous Youth led and community volunteer based garden project that focuses on revitalization of Indigenous plants, Indigenous foods and food systems. This garden is entirely youth led by the KNCLN Youth Council. The purpose of the garden is to raise awareness and promote education related to Youth access to land, medicines and gardening. This garden aims to promote autonomy and leadhership roles within the Urban Indigenous Youth population living in Katarokwi.
Location: Shannon Park
Contact: Mandy Wilson,
AMHS Garden
Description: This is a therapeutic garden for Addictions & Mental Health Services clients.
Location: 31 Lyons St.
Contact: Susan Yee,
Community Harvest Experimental Garden
Description: This Garden is managed by a team of Loving Spoonful staff and volunteers, and produce is distributed through the Community Harvest Markets. This site consists of entirely raised beds. Click here to learn more about Community Harvest Gardens.
Location: 88 Wright Cres. (Calvin Park Branch, KFPL)
Contact: Marie Bencze,
Community Harvest Production Garden
Description: This Garden is managed by a team of Loving Spoonful staff and volunteers, and produce is distributed through the Community Harvest Markets. This site includes a food forest planted in 2024. Click here to learn more about Community Harvest Gardens.
Location: 480 Elliott Ave.
Contact: Marie Bencze,
Compton Park Garden
Description: Compton Park Garden consists of three 6’x10′ raised beds that are gardened collectively by the community. This garden is currently undergoing an expansion, with more garden space becoming available in 2024.
Location: Helen St side of Compton Park (corner of Carruthers)
Contact: Kelli Siegwart,
Extend-A-Family Garden
Description: Extend-A-Family Kingston’s Diversity Garden is an accessible community and sensory garden where people learn, explore, relax and grow. The Diversity Garden was designed with the vision of being a catalyst for community development focused on social interactions, opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education. This community and sensory garden also delivers an opportunity for intergenerational and cross-cultural connections for the people we support.
Location: 361 Montreal St.
Contact: Barb Danielewski, bdanielewski@
Gitigaaninaan (Our Garden)
Description: Gitigaaninaan is an Indigenous led and community volunteer based garden project that focuses on revitalization of Indigenous plants, Indigenous foods and food systems. The purpose of this garden is to grow medicines, traditional plants and flowers that promote biodiversity. These medicines and plants are then harvested and distributed to Indigneous community members in the Katarokwi area.
Location: City Park Between the Washroom and Fountain
Contact: Mandy Wilson,
Hwy 15 Indigenous Food Sovereignty Garden
Description: All Our Relations Land Trust is growing food and medicines to share with community. The garden has three raised beds and a large in-ground bed for a total of 880 square feet of growing space, as well as mounds planned for the Three Sisters, corn, beans and squash. In addition, there are a number of young trees they are caring for including willow, sugar maple, paw paw, pin oak and cedars. The diversity of the trees suggests the diversity of the landscape with a more wetland area and that borders the property and then an upland area where the garden is located. This group has incorporated as All Our Relations Land Trust. They are looking for garden support and for folks to spend time with the land on Mondays and Thursdays, and they always feed their volunteers.
Location: 1467 Hwy 15
Contact: Maureen Buchanan and Kaitlyn Patterson,
McBurney Park Community Garden
Description: This community garden consists of four raised beds managed collectively by the McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association. The harvest is shared amongst neighbours.
Location: Southeast corner of McBurney Park, along Ordnance Street.
Contact: Kate Thomas,
Salvation Army Community Garden
Description: Located at the Salvation Army Community and Family Services on Patrick St. Produce grown is used in programs and made available to the public.
Location: 342 Patrick St.
Contact: Tiffany Welsh,
Sydenham Street United Church
Description: The purpose of this garden is to create a biologically productive and educational space in which members can learn about and engage in urban agriculture. In doing so, they seek to lessen the disconnect between people and our food and promote concepts of food sovereignty.
Location: 82 Sydenham St.
Contact: Donna Delyea,
