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.

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 is a beekeeper with several working hives in the garden.

-  We are proud that neighborhood groups such as St. Herman's, Franklin Plaza, and
Kentucky School Children all have plots here.

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

    

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