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Farms and Gardens

The Rec and Park Department supports and manages a program of 42 community gardens (and growing!) on City-owned property, where members can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. Gardens range in size from a few hundred square feet to thousands of square feet; some offer individual plots while others have shared plots. Some gardens also offer demonstration gardening or other instructional programming.

The Community Gardens Program is a substantial component of the new citywide Urban Agriculture Program . Each garden is operated by a group of committed volunteers, and membership fees are often self-imposed to cover common expenses.

Thank you for your interest in becoming a volunteer community gardener in San Francisco. Happy gardening!

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Adam Rogers Community Garden

Adam Rogers Community Garden

Hunters Point youth grow squash, carrots, eggplant, bell peppers, sweet peas, mustard greens, bok choy, collards and all kinds of fruit at this neighborhood garden

Alemany Farm

Alemany Farm

The largest urban farm in San Francisco, Alemany Farm offers everyone the chance to learn where their food comes from, pitch in to help, and take home fresh produce for free!

Alioto Community Garden

Alioto Community Garden

A tiny piece of heaven in the Inner Mission, where gardeners cultivate plants and appreciate the roles that plants, sun, soils and pollinators have in their lives

Arkansas Friendship Garden

Arkansas Friendship Garden

This small, 16-plot garden shares a fence with Connecticut Friendship garden - hence the “friendship” in the name of the garden

Arlington Community Garden

Arlington Community Garden

This is charming garden is located along the Bernal Cut near Glen Park and features 21 garden plots and a wide array of plants, veggies and herbs

Bernal Heights Community Garden

Bernal Heights Community Garden

Bernal Heights Community Garden is located at the top of Bernal Hill with beautiful views overlooking the Bernal Heights neighborhood

Brooks Park Community Garden

Brooks Park Community Garden

Brooks Park is a passionate mix of gardening, community, art and beautiful views. The view from the top of its hill is particularly spectacular.

Clipper Terrace Community Garden

Clipper Terrace Community Garden

Featuring some of the best views of downtown SF, this garden includes 58 plots and common areas that include blackberries, raspberries, fruit trees, herbs and ornamentals

Connecticut Friendship Garden

Connecticut Friendship Garden

This garden features vegetables, fruits, flowers and a collection of bee hives that produce excellent ‘Top of the Hill’ honey

Corona Heights Community Garden

Corona Heights Community Garden

Corona Heights Community Garden is a small jewel nestled above the Castro neighborhood with expansive views of downtown San Francisco and the Bay

Corwin Street Community Garden

Corwin Street Community Garden

Unlike the majority of our community gardens, this one focuses on food for our local pollinators and wildlife, growing primarily native plants for habitat restoration

Crags Court Garden

Crags Court Garden

The summers in Crags Court are cool, foggy and often windy; despite this, we are able to grow veggies like celery, broccoli, peas, potatoes, onions, pumpkins and more

Dogpatch/Miller Memorial Garden

Dogpatch/Miller Memorial Garden

This garden is enjoyed not only by the dedicated community garden families, but also by the many neighbors who pass through while exercising or walking their dogs

Geneva Community Garden

Geneva Community Garden

This garden serves as an educational tool for neighborhood kids, who learn that food is grown instead of bought in a package from the grocery store

Golden Gate Park CommUNITY Garden

Golden Gate Park CommUNITY Garden

This garden features a vertical garden, a living wall that spans 100 lineal feet on the north perimeter of the site, comprised of edible plants, herbs and edible flowers

GGP Senior Center Garden

GGP Senior Center Garden

Gardening can be part of an active, healthy lifestyle for our seniors, who gather at this neighborhood center to hone their green thumbs

Good Prospect Community Garden

Good Prospect Community Garden

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn… Gardeners at this charming site devote their time, energy, and patience to everything they grow here

Howard/Langton Mini Park Garden

Howard/Langton Mini Park Garden

Howard/Langton Mini Park Garden is one of 42 community gardens in the city; stop by this charming garden today and see what’s growing in our backyard.

In Chan Kaajal Community Garden

In Chan Kaajal Community Garden

Local parents agree that gardens like this serve to teach children from a young age to take care of nature and understand the importance of preserving green spaces

Jackson Community Garden

Jackson Community Garden

This garden is one of 42 gardens where members can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. Some gardens also offer demonstrations or other programming.

Kid Power Park Garden

Kid Power Park Garden

This garden is one of 42 gardens where members can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. Some gardens offer demonstrations or other programming

Koshland Park Community Garden

Koshland Park Community Garden

This garden catalyzes an effort to make the neighborhood safer, more beautiful and nourishing, as well as demonstrates the many benefits of urban gardening

La Grande Community Garden

La Grande Community Garden

This garden is a hidden gem in Crocker-Amazon Park. The gardeners here grown an incredible variety of culturally appropriate and locally rare fruits and vegetables.

Lessing/Sears Mini Park Garden

Lessing/Sears Mini Park Garden

This garden is one of 42 gardens where members can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. Some gardens also offer demonstration or other programming.

Maria Manetti Shrem Community Garden

Maria Manetti Shrem Community Garden

The new Maria Manetti Shrem Community Garden at Francisco Park is under construction

McLaren Park Community Garden

McLaren Park Community Garden

This garden includes communal planter beds for herbs and trailing vegetables, sheltered gathering spaces for groups, and ornamental gates and fencing

Michelangelo Community Garden

Michelangelo Community Garden

This garden is one of 42 gardens where members can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. Some gardens offer demonstrations or other programming.

Minnie & Lovie Community Garden

Minnie & Lovie Community Garden

This garden is one of 42 gardens where members can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. Some gardens offer demonstrations or other programming.

Nob Hill/Hooker Alley Garden

Nob Hill/Hooker Alley Garden

This tiny sliver of a garden is an abundant oasis in the middle of downtown SF and features 13 plots for gardeners and one for local students

Noe/Beaver Community Garden

Noe/Beaver Community Garden

This garden is located in a corner pocket park in the busy Duboce Triangle neighborhood, a great central spot for the garden members to gather with their neighbors

Ogden Terrace Community Garden

Ogden Terrace Community Garden

A lush hillside oasis in sunny Bernal Heights, this garden features 32 plots, including one ADA plot, and is open to the public every first Saturday of the month

Page Street Community Garden

Page Street Community Garden

Stop by and see this garden’s special espaliered fruit trees that were planted to save space and accommodate more fruit trees in this small garden

Page/Laguna Community Garden

Page/Laguna Community Garden

This garden is one of 42 gardens where members can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. Gardens offer demonstrations or other programming

Palega Community Garden

Palega Community Garden

Palega Community Garden, built in 2014 as part of the park’s $21 million makeover, is located in the garden district of The City and features 15 garden plots

Park Street Garden

Park Street Garden

This garden is one of 42 gardens where members can grow produce and ornamental plants for personal use. Some gardens offer demonstrations or other programming.

Potrero del Sol Garden

Potrero del Sol Garden

This park features a wide array of activities: a skateboard bowl, playground, lawn space and the community garden, one of the oldest and largest community gardens in the city.

Potrero Hill Community Garden

Potrero Hill Community Garden

Local kids and families love to visit our happy healthy hens! This garden features 51 plots and common areas maintained by local residents using only organic methods

Treat Commons Community Garden

Treat Commons Community Garden

This garden has a diverse orchard which garden members love to tend. It was planted just a few years ago and its fruit is shared amongst garden and community members

Victoria Manalo Draves Garden

Victoria Manalo Draves Garden

An oasis within the SoMa neighborhood– Sunlight illuminates the crimson and rich green leaves of a rhubarb plant, growing next to cabbage and other greens

Vis Valley Greenway Agriculture Lot

Vis Valley Greenway Agriculture Lot

The Agriculture Garden was established as a site for gardening education, and is a laboratory for finding what grows best in our neighborhood’s microclimate.

Vis Valley Community Garden

Vis Valley Community Garden

The Visitacion Valley Greenway Project was created to provide education to the community about natural sciences, nutrition, horticulture, environmental issues and advocacy

White Crane Springs Garden

White Crane Springs Garden

This garden embodies the truest sense of “natural” gardening - organic practices, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and sustainability projects

Don’t see the garden you’re looking for?  It might not be managed by Recreation and Parks.  Other city agencies and non-profit organizations also manage community gardens, including Public Works, Presidio, the Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), the Port Authority, and the Parks Alliance.