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.

Page last updated: 21 Mar 2025, 09:37 AM