Welcome to the Kentucky Garden!

Kentucky Garden is one of Cleveland's oldest and
finest community gardens located on the near west side of Cleveland in the historic Ohio
City District on West 38th Street off of Franklin and just north of Fairview Park.

Guided Field Trips through the Kentucky Garden are available from
mid May through the end of October.  Contact the Coordinator, Kevin Maguire at
621-0449 to make an appointment.

Website Mission: The purpose of the site is to make
the same information that is posted on the garden's shed bulletin board and other general
information pertinent to garden members available in a virtual format so that gardeners
can keep up to date from home or work on garden events, projects, programs, updates,
guidelines, and volunteer opportunities.

The site was (soft) launched Sunday, August 7, 2005.  

Like the garden ... visit often, and enjoy!

Did you know........
-  The Kentucky Garden has a history of more than 60 years: as a
   Victory Garden (WW II), school garden, and community garden.  

-  The garden is maintained solely by the volunteer work of the gardeners and at no
expense to the City of Cleveland.  

-  We are a working garden, not a show garden.  An example of a show garden is the
Cleveland Botanical Garden.  

-  We are a totally organic garden.   Our gardens benefit from the manure pile, the
compost pile and the bees.  

-  Our gardeners log over 2000 hours of volunteer community time every year.  This does
not include the many thousands of hours we spend tending our own plots.

-  When you talk with one of our gardeners they will tell you how many people are fed
from their plots: family, friends, donations, etc.

-  There are four beekeepers with several working hives in the garden.

-  We are proud that St. Herman's, Franklin Plaza, and Franklin Circle Church as well as
Kentucky School Children all have plots here.

-  There is a children's book based on Kentucky Garden. The title is Seed Folk.

-  When gardeners are on site, it is our policy to let non-gardening parents with children
have access to the bathroom.  There are no bathrooms close by.

    

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community.
       When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here.
               And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.
                                  -  Anne Raver