Urban Horticulture

Louisville Grows’ Urban Horticulture program aims to influence availability, quality, and quantity of fresh food at a lower cost to create a healthier food security system in our community. Our horticulture manager works with the community to build capacity by providing technical assistance, education, and infrastructure for all types of gardens. The urban horticulture program is maintains and supports the Green Thumb (teaching) garden on our campus.

Our main focus with the community is to build capacity by providing technical assistance, education, and infrastructure. Through our annual Fundraiser, Seed & Starts Sale, we can offer more support to help build capacity-building endeavors.

The Urban Horticulture program has assisted community gardens with building raised beds and irrigation systems, installing beehives, planting fruit trees and berry bushes, and developing community gathering spaces. We’re working with community gardens and Louisville residents to grow a more just and sustainable city.

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Why Gardens?

A community garden transforms a neighborhood by providing fresh and local produce for plot holders, nourishing surrounding residents with edible fruit trees and bushes planted around the site, hosting agricultural workshops throughout the year for community members to share knowledge and learn from experts, introducing children to nature in a safe and accessible way, offering community members the garden as a neighborhood meeting or event spaces, and nurturing green oases that increase property values and decrease crime and vandalism.

In 2017, Louisville Grows released the Community Garden Toolkit and Community Garden Grant to assist neighborhoods that want to start or expand a community garden. This toolkit guides community members through the process of starting a garden from the ground up, such as writing a land lease, installing water on the property, and engaging their neighbors through grassroots organizing. This toolkit encouraged even more neighborhoods across the city to start and maintain community gardens.

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