Creating Community Gardens with Garden Tenders

Philadelphia Green’s Garden Tenders is a self-help training course for community groups, organizations and individuals within the city of Philadelphia that are interested in starting community gardens on vacant lots, in parks, around schools and churches. The responsibility for creating and maintaining a garden belongs to each group.

Participants learn how to get gardens started and how to keep them going. The training course offers basic organizational information that helps groups to establish successful, self-sustaining community gardens. Upon completion of training, graduates are invited to attend additional gardening workshops.

Garden Tenders Basic Training:
Learn what it takes to get a community garden started. Open to groups, individuals, educators, and anyone interested in gardening with others.

The six-session course combines in-depth and hands-on gardening experience with topics such as basic horticulture, recruiting and keeping volunteers, assessing and finding  resources in your neighborhood, planting and garden maintenance, finding a site, getting permission, and forming partnerships.

Wednesdays, March 28; April 4, 18, and 25; May 2 and 9
Saturday, April 14, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (optional tour)
Course Fee $25

Although there are 6 scheduled sessions and a tour, you need only pay the registration fee ONCE. To register and pay online, click here to register.

Interested in PHS's Green City Teachers program? Click here.

For more information about Garden Tenders, call Dawn Waters at 215-988-8845 or email gardentenders@pennhort.org.