Current Community Gardens

Want to join a community garden in Contra Costa County?

The following list includes membership gardens, which generally require an application and annual fee. Please contact the garden directly to inquire about openings.

• Ambrose Community Garden, Bay Point
• Discovery Bay Community Garden, Discovery Bay
• First Generation Farmers, Brentwood
• Gehringer Community Garden, Concord
• Lafayette Community Garden, Lafayette
• Markham Nature Park and Arboretum, Concord  (Note: for information about renting a community garden plot, please email info@markhamarboretum.org).  
• Monarch Habitat and Demonstration Garden, Moraga
• Moraga Gardens Farm, Moraga
• Pacific Oaks Community Garden, El Cerrito
• Pollinator Garden at Gehringer Community Garden, Concord
• Rodgers Ranch Urban Farms, Pleasant Hill
• San Ramon Community Gardens, San Ramon
• The Gardens at Heather Farm, Walnut Creek

Gardens We Are Working With / Have Worked With

East County   

• Healthy Hearts Farm, Pittsburg

  Healthy Hearts Farm is a program of the non-profit Healthy Hearts. Currently in development, the garden will allow neighborhood residents to grow their own food.

• Wollam House, Pittsburg

  Wollam House is a residential substance abuse treatment facility for adult women in Contra Costa County.  Residents of the facility use the garden.

Central County

• Adaptive Learning Center, Concord

  The Adaptive Learning Center, a non-profit dedicated to providing community for adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders, provides a community garden that helps support its clients' personal growth.

• Concord Library, Concord

  The Concord Library is a public library facility. Library managers converted an underused patio off the Children’s Room into a container garden for fresh vegetables. Educational programs accompany the growing seasons.

• Crestwood Mental Health Facility, Pleasant Hill

  Crestwood is a provider of mental health services. Program managers converted an underused patio into a container garden. Residents and clients of the facility use the garden.

• Discovery House, Martinez

  Discovery House is a residential substance abuse treatment facility for adult men in Contra Costa County.  Residents of the facility use the garden.

• Gehringer Community Garden, Concord

  The garden serves residents of Concord and surrounding communities. Gardeners are individually assigned in-ground plots. Membership and an annual fee are required.

• La Casa Ujima, Martinez

  La Casa Ujima is a residential substance abuse treatment facility for adult women in Contra Costa County.  Residents of the facility use the garden.

• Lafayette Community Garden, Lafayette

  The garden serves residents of Lafayette and surrounding communities. Gardeners collectively work raised beds. Membership and an annual fee are required.

• Luxi House, Concord

  Luxi House offers a residential program to young pregnant women between the ages of 18 and 20. Produce from the garden will be used by the residents.

• Newell Guest House, Pleasant Hill

  Newell Guest House is a residential treatment facility for adult men with psychiatric disabilities. Staff and residents work the garden, which includes raised beds and in-ground planting.

• Veterans Administration Hospital, Martinez

  Contra Costa Master Gardeners assist with outpatient gardening skills education.

West County

• Bay Area Rescue Mission, Richmond

  The Bay Area Rescue Mission provides food, shelter and care for the community's poor, hungry and homeless men, women and children. Staff and residents work the in-ground garden and raised beds.

• Brickyard Landing Gardens, Point Richmond

  Brickyard Landing is a condominium complex. Garden members live on site and individually work raised beds.

• Hana Gardens, El Cerrito
  

  Hana House is an Eden Housing development that provides rental homes for lower income seniors. Raised bed planters are individually worked by residents.

• Miraflores Senior Apartments, Richmond
  

  Mira Flores is an Eden Housing development that provides rental homes for lower income seniors. Raised bed planters are individually worked by residents.

• West County Wastewater District, Richmond

  This is a workplace garden, tended and managed by employees of the West County Wastewater District.