Find a Garden Near You
Click on the image at the right  to open the map of Madison's community gardens. It is best to get a plot at a garden that is near where you live or work, so that it is easy for you to go there often. Look up the desired garden in the list below, contact the registrar, and ask to be added to their list.

Register

Start Gardening
Once you have a plot, prepare and plant as soon as you can! Plots that don't get planted within two weeks of the garden's Opening Day can be re-assigned to someone on the waiting list. 

 Isthmus Gardens

• Reynolds
  634 East Mifflin Street, between Blount and Blair Streets.
  Reynolds Homestead Community Garden is a very small garden, with 26 plots that are 8x10 feet, and 1 wheelchair-accessible raised bed, and strict maintenance rules due to its nestled urban setting.
  The registrar is Kjersti Knox at reynoldscommunitygarden@gmail.com or at 251-6567 (no answering machine).

• Lapham Elementary
  1045 East Dayton Street.
  NOTE: In the 2009 growing season, Lapham Elementary will not be receiving any additional gardeners.
  The registrar is Ken Swift at 204-4178.

Northside Gardens

• Troy (visit Troy on the web)
  North of 500 block of Troy Drive.
  This is a very big garden with 327 plots, including a no-till organic section. 
  The registrar is Christie Ralston at 240-0409. 

Southside Gardens

• All Saints
  2951 Chapel Valley Road (on the grounds of All Saints Lutheran Church).
  Contact All Saints Lutheran Church at 276-7729 to register.

• Arbor / McDivitt
  2509 McDivitt Road (on the grounds of Arbor Covenant Church).
  The registrar is Jim Stehley at 838-9849.

• Baird
  2200 block of Baird Street (next to CDA housing).
  The registrar is Joe Mathers at 246-4730 ext. 212.

• Burr Oaks
  Between Magnolia Circle and Hackberry Lane (behind Lincoln Elementary).
  The registrar isYee Ythao at 770-1073..

• Drumlin Garden
  2849 Oregon Rd.
  The registrar is Sandy

• Rimrock
  300 block of Englehart Drive, west of Artesian Lane.
  The registrar is Joe Mathers at 246-4730 ext. 212.

• Marlborough Park
  Marlborough Park Garden is just south of the beltline, between Seminole Highway and Allied Drive. The registrars are Julia Baumgartner (English) at  262-442-4127  and  Pablo Granados (Spanish) at 213-2612.

• Moorland
  1133 Moorland Road (just east of Wayland Road, behind the Water Utility Building). We will be registering THIS SATURDAY, March 14, from 9am until 1pm at the Highland Manor office building. Enter the mobile home park from Moorland St. across from the sewer plant and follow the signs to the office.
  The registrar is Larry Jacobson at 223-1365.
  Para la información en español puedes llamar a Alicia DeBarreno al 441-1086 antes 8 PM. ¡NO SE PUEDES LLAMAR DESPUÉS DE 8PM!

• Quann (visit Quann on the web)
  Intersection of Bram and Koster Streets (behind Alliant Energy Center Coliseum, on south edge of Quann Park, where bike path meets Bram Street)...
  This is a big organic garden. Registration will be on March 21st, 2009 at the Catholic Multicultural Center on Beld St.
  The registrar is Cheryl Dewelt Robinson at 258-8398...

• Waunona
  5000 block of Raywood Road (in Waunona Park, next to tennis court).
  Registrars are Paula O’Neal (English) at 221-0207 and Renee Stellpflug (Spanish) at 442-0086.

• Eagle Heights (visit Eagle Heights on the web)
  West of intersection of Eagle Heights Drive and Lake Mendota Drive.
  You may register at the website, or pick up a form from either the Eagle Heights Community Center, or from the kiosk at the garden. 

• NEW! Forsythia Garden (Middleton)
  Located on Forsythia Street and Deming Way in the Airport Road Business Park in Middleton. This new garden has plots available.
  You may register with Abby Attoun at 827-1043.

• Hammersley
  Hammersley is a newly starting 20 plot garden in a small park next to Falk Elementary School at 6120 Hammersley Road. The registrar is Larry Luther at 271-8787 (call between 5:00pm and 8:30pm only).

• Gammon (visit Gammon on the web)
  110 North Gammon Road (on grounds of Church of the Living Christ Church).
  The registrar is Katie Place at 274-1227.

• Meadowood
  Meadowood Garden is in a small park bordered by Balsam-Leland-Thrush Roads with 28 plots and regular youth programming.
  The registrar is Leslie Stephany at 288-8144

• Middleton Hills
  High Road and Apprentice Place (the garden is for residents of Middleton Hills)
  The registrar is Ron Biendseil at 836-1920.

• Midvale Elementary
  502 Caromar Drive- 26 plots, currently a WAITING LIST
  The registrar is Nancy Letcher at 233-9120. For more information, click on this link: www.midvaleproject.net.

• Old Sauk
  East of 700 block of North Westfield Road, 150 feet south of Harvest Hill Road (on grounds of Madison Christian Community Church).
  The registrar is Gray Williams at 233-4731.

• Prairie Hills
  North of Raymond Rd. and east of Frisch Rd. in the Lucy-Lincoln Heistand Park
  The English-language registrar is Karen Deaton at 278-8480.
  The Hmong-language registrars are Bao Yang at 298-0998 and
  See Vang at 276-7803. 

• Sheboygann (visit Sheboygan on the web)
  4800 block of Sheboygan Avenue (between Hill Farms State Office Building and Red Cross).
  The registrar is Lauren Nagle.

• Shorewood Hills
  Off Shorewood Boulevard.
  This garden is open only to residents of that community. 
  The registrar is Peter Fisher at 263-4400.

• University Housing
  Northeast of Shady Lane and northwest of west edge of Bowdoin Road.
  You may register for this garden the same way you would for the Eagle Heights garden (top of this section).

   Other Dane County Gardens

• Oregon
  103 N. Alpine Parkway (on grounds of Peoples United Methodist Church).
  The registrar is Barb Feeney at 843-2272.