Community Gardens

Community Gardens. Illustration of two people planting in raised bed gardens. Logos for Kingston Community Health Centres and City of Kingston.

Volunteers needed!

Kingston Community Health Centres (KCHC) is looking for volunteers across the city to help coordinate community gardens! This role will act as a liaison between the Kingston Community Gardens Network coordinator and the garden group (which includes all members of a community garden).

Volunteers are responsible for:

  • Signing a community garden partnership agreement with the City of Kingston.
  • Communicating and sharing updates with the garden members.
  • Supporting garden members with the success of individual garden plots.
  • Writing applications for annual garden grants over the winter.
  • Writing impact reports at the end of the garden season.

Apply today

If you would like to volunteer for a community garden, please email Marie Bencze, Community Development Coordinator at KCHC at marieb@kchc.ca.

About the Kingston Community Garden Network

Community gardens provide a shared space to grow and harvest fruits and vegetables, herbs, flowers or native plants. We worked with community partners to create the Kingston Community Garden Network. This network helps make new community gardens on public or private land and keeps existing gardens in our city going strong.

Kingston Community Health Centres coordinates the Kingston Community Garden Network with support from the City of Kingston.

The Community Gardens program includes:

  • Growing annual and perennial food plants, medicinal plants and flowers

  • Planting Indigenous, cultural and native plants

  • Creating pollinator gardens

  • Establishing little forests

  • Growing orchards and edible forests with fruit trees, nut trees and shrubs

  • Designing landscapes with edible plants.

There are now over 38 community gardens throughout the Kingston area, and the list is still growing! There are three types of community gardens in the Network: Allotment Gardens, Collective Gardens, and Community Orchards/Food Forests.

Community orchards, or food forests, are plantings of fruit and/or nut trees that are managed by community groups. Some are attached to existing community gardens, some are independent.

See the KCGN web page here.

Community Gardens. Illustration of two people planting in raised bed gardens. Logos for Kingston Community Health Centres and City of Kingston.

Volunteers needed!

Kingston Community Health Centres (KCHC) is looking for volunteers across the city to help coordinate community gardens! This role will act as a liaison between the Kingston Community Gardens Network coordinator and the garden group (which includes all members of a community garden).

Volunteers are responsible for:

  • Signing a community garden partnership agreement with the City of Kingston.
  • Communicating and sharing updates with the garden members.
  • Supporting garden members with the success of individual garden plots.
  • Writing applications for annual garden grants over the winter.
  • Writing impact reports at the end of the garden season.

Apply today

If you would like to volunteer for a community garden, please email Marie Bencze, Community Development Coordinator at KCHC at marieb@kchc.ca.

About the Kingston Community Garden Network

Community gardens provide a shared space to grow and harvest fruits and vegetables, herbs, flowers or native plants. We worked with community partners to create the Kingston Community Garden Network. This network helps make new community gardens on public or private land and keeps existing gardens in our city going strong.

Kingston Community Health Centres coordinates the Kingston Community Garden Network with support from the City of Kingston.

The Community Gardens program includes:

  • Growing annual and perennial food plants, medicinal plants and flowers

  • Planting Indigenous, cultural and native plants

  • Creating pollinator gardens

  • Establishing little forests

  • Growing orchards and edible forests with fruit trees, nut trees and shrubs

  • Designing landscapes with edible plants.

There are now over 38 community gardens throughout the Kingston area, and the list is still growing! There are three types of community gardens in the Network: Allotment Gardens, Collective Gardens, and Community Orchards/Food Forests.

Community orchards, or food forests, are plantings of fruit and/or nut trees that are managed by community groups. Some are attached to existing community gardens, some are independent.

See the KCGN web page here.

  • Rodden Park Community Forests

    Kingston Community Health Centres is looking for community feedback on a new Community Garden application currently under review: Rodden Park Community Food Forest and Little Forest. Please read on for project details. 

    Submit your feedback by answering the questions below. Survey closes April 17 at 4 p.m. 

    Take Survey
  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

    Calvin Park Community Garden

    Loving Spoonful is applying for a new community garden to be established at Kingston Frontenac Public Library – Calvin Park Branch. The new community harvest garden would: 

    • Be comprised of 16 raised vegetable and herbs beds
    • Provide donations to Loving Spoonful’s food security initiatives
    • Incorporate learning opportunities for students and families
    • Include accessible features

    The new gardens will be managed by Loving Spoonful staff.

    Survey closes April 29 at 4 p.m.

  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

    City Park Community Garden Survey

    Kingston Indigenous Language Nest (KILN) is applying for a new community garden to be established at City Park on the corner of King St E and West St.  

    The new community garden would:

    • Be comprised of two fully accessible raised vegetable and traditional medicine beds 
    • Provide donations to KILN’s Indigenous Food Sovereignty initiatives including the KILN Gibanemindimin / Teyakwatatyenawá:se (Community Sharing Centre)
    • Provide Indigenous language and cultural learning opportunities for students and families
    • Provide opportunities for community healing through growing and harvesting of sacred medicines 

    The new gardens will be managed by KILN staff. 

    Survey closes July 12 at 4 p.m.

  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

    Rotary Park Butterfly Garden

    The Rotary Club of Kingston is applying for a butterfly garden to be established at Rotary Park. The Monarch butterfly and pollinator garden would:

    • Be comprised of host and nutrient plants recommended by the Monarch Watch Society.  
    • Support habitats for monarchs and other pollinators 

    Survey closes Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 4 p.m.

  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

    McBurney Park Community Garden

    The McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association is applying for a new community garden to be established at McBurney Park. The new gardens would:

    • Be comprised of 3 raised vegetable and herbs beds
    • Provide donations to Loving Spoonful’s food security initiatives
    • Incorporate learning opportunities for students and families
    • Include accessible features


    Survey closes Sept. 9 at 4 p.m.

  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

    Friendship Park Community Garden

    The Friendship Park Community Garden Association is applying for an expansion of an existing community garden to be established at Friendship Park. The expanded garden would:

    • Be comprised of two additional raised beds located within the approved garden ‘footprint’.  
    • Address residents wait-listed for garden plots.   


    Survey closes Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 4 p.m.

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