Plot It Fresh Community Garden Program

Love to garden but don’t have the space?

Plant your own vegetable garden in one of the Plot-It-Fresh Community Gardens!

2025 Season:

Reimagining Plot-it-Fresh

Sadly, at the end of 2024 we lost the Hawthorn Avenue Farm, and with it the over 200 community garden beds. To make up for this loss the Urban Agriculture team has partnered with local community gardens to create a new program that still allows community members to grow plants and produce of their own in Newark. This year in addition to our Smith st. Plot-it-Fresh site, we have partnered with Giving One Tenth, The Culture Spot, STEAM Urban/A Healing Sanctuary, Healthy Haven, and the Garden of Life; who will act as host sites for plot-it-fresh gardeners.

Fill out your application here

Plots are limited. Only one will be assigned per household until all applications have been filled.

Applications will be open from 8am April 1st thru 5pm April 15th.

Plot It Fresh Community Garden Program

Garden Hours

Our community gardens are closed during the winter months. The Plot It Fresh season runs from May to November, weather permitting.

Garden Locations

Smith Street

144 Smith st.

Model: Assigned Beds
Site Access: 7 days a week

Giving One Tenth Community Garden

715 S 20th st.

Model: Communal Gardening in exchange for weekly produce
Site Access: 7 days a week

Garden of Life

909 S 18th St

Model: Assigned Beds
Site Access: 7 days a week

Healthy Havens – 18th Ave

1068 18th Ave

Model: Assigned Beds
Site Access: 7 days a week

Healthy Havens – Norwood

69 Norwood St

Model: Assigned Beds
Site Access: 7 days a week

STEAM Urban

179 Broadway

Type: Communal Gardening in exchange for weekly produce
Site Access: 7 days a week

The Culture Spot

239 Hawthorne Ave

Model: Assigned Beds
Site Access: 7 days a week

Learn something new.

Greater Newark Conservancy offers hands-on, inquiry based environmentally themed programs. The Conservancy’s professional staff is a partner in educating your students.

Volunteer with us

Get outside and enjoy some nature at our Outdoor Learning Center or Urban Farm! Volunteers are a vital part of Greater Newark Conservancy’s mission and operations. You can volunteer as an individual or as a group.

Visit Our Center.

We’re very proud that the opening of our Judith L. Shipley Urban Environmental Center in 2004 marked the very first appearance of an urban environmental center in New Jersey.

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