Ed. note: This article supplements a larger feature on community gardening in the Spring 2025 issue of Northern Gardener. Starting a Community Garden is no simple task. There are so many things to manage, whether it’s finding land, coordinating schedules with your neighbors, finding supplies, organizing planting days—and then you have the many tasks that…

There is nothing quite like experiencing a child’s joy in the garden. Seeing a little one watch seeds in the ground become the fruits and vegetables they find in grocery stores is a wildly inspiring journey. Many of us are deeply disconnected from the systems and people who grow our food. That’s why our signature…

The Kingfield Community Garden Group is a project of the nonprofit Kingfield Neighborhood Association whose mission is to create a network of gardens and access to fresh food throughout the neighborhood in south Minneapolis. “Community gardens work because people take mutual ownership of a space and are brought together because of it,” says Sarah Linnes-Robinson,…