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Pittsburgh Community Food Gardens Interactive Map

Our up to date, interactive map of the active community food gardens in Allegheny County.  Use it to find community gardens near you where space is available and contact info for garden coordinators.

Is your community food garden not represented on the map?  Let us know!  Email: mmanheim@growpittsburgh.org or call our office: (412) 362-4769

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Pan & Tim's, Meyer's Ridge Community Garden, McKees Rocks, PA link

City Growers

Grow Pittsburgh is frequently approached by local communities looking for assistance to help construct community gardens in the City of Pittsburgh. As a result, in 2010 Grow Pittsburgh established a community garden program called City Growers in partnership with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Our goal is to ensure the viability and sustainability of these community gardens by providing knowledge and skilled staff members who help manage garden setup, assist with community organizing, and support general garden production.  Grow Pittsburgh is currently accepting applications for our next round of City Growers gardens. 

Lawrenceville: The Lawrenceville Organic Community Garden

In 2010, Grow Pittsburgh was asked by the community organization ‘Green Lawrenceville’ to help make improvements on an already existing community garden. Started in 2008 with generous support from the Allegheny Valley Bank, the Lawrenceville community garden is situated on land owned by the Allegheny Cemetery.  You can find it inside the stone cemetery wall near the intersection of Butler St. and Stanton Ave.  During it's two years helping the Lawrenceville Organic Community Garden, Grow Pittsburgh helped design new plots and expand the growing area of the garden, supplied compost, tools, seed, and seedlings, provided materials for the construction of a shed, fortified the fencing, and assisted with education regarding the garden and its care. 

Uptown: Tustin Street Community Garden

Grow Pittsburgh was approached by the community-based organization Uptown Partners to help in the planning and construction of a community garden in the Uptown neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Uptown Community Garden was built on a warm November day in 2010.  By the springtime of 2011, all 10 garden beds had been spoken for.  This summer, the gardeners there are growing a wide variety of vegetables and herbs. 

Allegheny Grows

In 2010, County Executive Dan Onorato launched Allegheny Grows, an initiative that enables the county to provide material, technical, and educational assistance to communities committed to transforming vacant properties into urban, community gardens.  Now in its second year, Grow Pittsburgh is immensely honored and pleased to partner with Allegheny Grows and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to provide technical assistance in the construction of vegetable gardens all over the county.

Millvale: The Gardens Of Millvale

In Millvale, Allegheny Grows is working in conjunction with the Millvale Community Development Corporation and Allegheny River Towns Enterprise Zone to transform three vacant lot on Butler Street into urban gardens. In one epic work day in the spring of 2010 Grow Pittsburgh staff, community members, and volunteers successfully cleared and prepped the lot and constructed 14 raised beds and one wheel chair accessible bed. Later that spring, community members constructed fencing and a shed.  The gardeners enjoyed their harvest all season long and donated whatever extra they had to the Millvale Farm Stand to raise revenue to borough projects. In the fall community, members undertook the construction of a large compost bin as well as the preparation of a site for a future orchard.  In the spring of 2011, 10 more garden beds were added to meet the increasing demand from community members.  Work continues on the future orchard, where beds are being established for a fall planting.  

McKees Rocks: Meyer's Ridge Community Garden

In McKees Rocks, Grow Pittsburgh is assisting residents at the Meyer's Ridge Community Builders development to establish a community garden.  During the 2010 season, community members and a crew of teen volunteers from around the country spread 30 cubic yards of soil, built 420 feet of deer and groundhog fencing, and planted the garden with tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, corn, squash, cauliflower, broccoli, melons, and pumpkins. The produce grown was shared by garden volunteers and distributed to the community at large through the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.  A local church volunteered to build a shed to store the tools provided through Allegheny Grows.  In the spring of 2011, 4 additional beds were created for individual families to cultivate.  During the summer, a drip irrigation system, rainbarrels, and a composting system are being installed with community help.

Penn Hills Community Garden

The Penn Hills Community Garden is in it's second season.  Before applying for the 2011 Allegheny Grows grant, the Penn Hills CDC built 16 raised beds on an abandoned ball field.  With assistance from Allegheny Grows, the community garden has grown to 48 raised beds!  They have also set up 8 foot deer fencing around the entire garden area, built a shed, installed a permanent municipal water supply, as well as a sophisticated water retention system.  They are experimenting with growing crops in straw bales, erosion control, and cover-cropping with radish to break up the compacted clay soil.  As you can see, the Penn Hills Community Garden group has a lot of big ideas.  Luckily, they have a lot of energetic gardeners, plus a very supportive community.  Workdays at the Penn Hills Community Garden are a lot of work and a lot of fun!  To get involved: Penn Hills CDC

Bellevue: Rosalinda Sauro Sirianni Memorial Garden

The Rosalinda Sauro Sirianni Memorial Garden is on land gardened by Rosalinda Sirianni and her family for two generations and left to North Hills Community Outreach under the condition that it remains an organic food garden.  With Allegheny Grows support, NHCO and volunteers built contoured raised beds on the sloping hillside.  They also built two accessible raised beds, a compost area, a shed, and deer fencing around the entire lot.  This season, the beds are planted in a variety of veggies and herbs.  All of its produce is donated to three Bellevue food pantries.  If you are interested in volunteering, contact NHCO.

Wilkinsburg: Hamnett Place Community Garden

The last few years, GTECH has planted sunflowers at a vacant lot near the Garden Dreams nursery in Wilkinsburg.  This year, Allegheny Grows and an energetic group of neighbors started the 16 bed Hamnett Place Community Garden.  Sixteen gardeners and their families, all from the immediate area surrounding the garden, are growing a variety of vegetables and herbs, many for the first time!  The garden has a low fence to keep out the neighborhood groundhogs, and a beautiful red shed that is also functioning to capture rainwater for watering beds.  The community has exciting plans to expand the site, including planting fruit trees, berry bushes, and a sunflower teepee.  

Pittsburgh Community Gardens in the News

Urban gardeners unite to offset soaring grocery costs By Debra Erdley, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Thursday, March 17, 2011
Garden offers food to North Hills pantries By Virginia Miller, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, Thursday, June 23, 2011
Community gardens help people, neighborhoods heal By Laura Lenk, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Thursday, May 12, 2011
Garden project to keep Millvale in bloom Thursday, April 28, 2011, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, By Virginia Miller
Grant will help community garden bear even more fruit (and veggies!) by Patrick Varine, Editor, PENN HILLS PROGRESS, April 7, 2011
Allegheny Grows funds first-year projects in Wilkinsburg, Bellevue and Penn Hills By Len Barcousky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thursday, February 10, 2011
Community garden grows quite well in Millvale By Rick Wills, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Thursday, October 14, 2010
Allegheny Grows to help plant seeds of rebirth By Jodi Weigand, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Thursday, May 6, 2010
How will town's new urban gardens grow? They will sprout with help from Allegheny Grows, grants, volunteers By Virginia Miller, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, Thursday, April 29, 2010
Growing Food in Wilkinsburg: Insights from Two Local Gardeners - Interview with Rachel Courtney of the Hamnett Community Garden, Wilkinsburg Sun VOL. 4 NO. 10 August 2011
The Insider Guide to Wilkinsburg, By Anne Caffee, POP CITY MEDIA, Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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