Nicholtown Community Garden

Neighborhood Gardens

While most gardens on our network necessitate a community effort, neighborhood gardens target specific residential communities. In neighborhoods both large and small, gardens are supported by the surrounding residents. Most garden workers live in the neighborhood surrounding the garden, creating a heightened sense of community and place. Although neighborhood gardens receive volunteers from outside residences, they are primarily organized and run by local residents dedicated to the garden effort.

Some neighborhood gardens in Greenville include:

• Drexel Terrace Community Association Garden on the Green
• GreenGate Community Initiative Community Garden
• Greenline-Spartanburg Community Garden
• Hampton Street Children's Garden
• Nicholtown Historical Garden
• Odessa Street Garden
• Sans Souci Community Garden
• Vista House Kierkegaarden

Synergy Garden in Simpsonville

Community Gardens

Community gardens are comprised of individuals from a variety of faith, economic and geographic backgrounds, dedicated to tending a plot of land.  The diversity of community gardens reflects the variety of individuals interested in and committed to the gardening effort.  These gardens may be communal or individual plots, but are united by a common goal: growing food, herbs and flowers for the benefit of the community.  The produce grown in the garden directly benefits those involved as well as friends, families and neighbors in the surrounding community.

Some community gardens in Greenville include:

• Bon Secours St. Francis Community Garden (See photos) (Visit website)
• GOFO Community Garden
• Kappa Alpha Order Garden
• KB Community Garden
• Synergy Garden (Visit Facebook page)

Summit Drive Elementary School Garden

School Gardens

School gardens are located and maintained primarily on school grounds by students, teachers, and volunteers from educationally-focused organizations. Gardens located on school grounds are used primarily for educational purposes.  For example, children participating in the maintenance of school gardens learn about the importance of healthy food, the basics of maintaining a garden, and even how to cook the vegetables produced from the garden.

School gardens in Greenville include:

• A.J. Whittenberg School Garden
• Augusta Circle Elementary School Garden
• Brook Glenn Elementary Garden
• Cherrydale Elementary Garden
• Duncan Chapel ElementaryRoper Mountain Science Center Garden
• Sterling School Garden
• Stone Drive Elementary
• Summit Drive Elementary School Garden
• Travelers Rest High School Garden

St. Peter's Episcopal Church Garden

Faith Based Gardens

Faith-based community gardens are funded and supported primarily through religious organizations, such as churches and synagogues or faith-based non-profit organizations. Faith-based gardens are often developed with the intent of providing fresh produce to members of the religious organization or those in need in the local community. Some produce donations from the bounty of these gardens are provided to soup kitchens, homeless shelters, or food banks to ensure that those in need have access to healthy, fresh, and affordable produce.

Workspace gardens in Greenville include:

• Dunean Community Garden
• First Christian Church Community Garden
• St. Anthony of Padua Church and School Garden
• St. Peter's Vegetable Gardens
• Triune Garden
• First Christian Church Garden

Workspace Gardens

Workspace community gardens are sponsored primarily through large businesses that provide the land and gardening resources to their employees or a specific community. While many corporate community gardens are provided the initial funds for garden creation and basic maintenance, resources and volunteerism are still a vital aspect of garden success.

Corporate gardens in Greenville include:

• GOFO Office Garden
• ScanSource Garden
• SYS Contructors Garden

Non Profit Gardens

Non-profit gardens are designed to provide a reliable source of fresh produce for individuals, families and communities who are food insecure. Non-profit gardens give away most of the produce to target communities and are often tended by volunteers or the constituents themselves. Non-profit gardens are becoming a new trend as existing organizations seek to break the cycle of hunger and poverty by reclaiming the ability to grow food to sustain our local communit..

Non profit gardens in Greenville include:

• Birnie Street Community Garden
• Children's Haven Grows
• Frazee Dream Center Community Garden
• Haritage Garden @ Roper Mountain History Farm
• Project Host Soup Kitchen

Urban Farm

Urban Farms are just that, big gardens in an urban environment.

Non profit gardens in Greenville include:

• Furman University Farm (See photos)
• Generous Garden (See photos) (Visit website)