Rice Street Community Garden

Rice Street Community Garden Rice Street Community Garden, in Brevard, NC, near Asheville, donates its crops to the town's food bank and soup kitchen and is manned by volunteers.

The Rice Street Community Garden's goal is to produce fresh, organically grown, sustainable crops for the food-insecure population of Transylvania County. All of this community-based garden’s produce is donated to a Brevard food bank called Sharing House and a soup kitchen known as Bread of Life, helping to feed the needy of the town and county. The garden grew its first crops in 2012. By mid-Augu

st of its third year, RSCG had harvested and donated 1,729,5 pounds of produce, worth approximately $6.918 (based on a multiplier for organic produce developed by an Asheville-based organization called Gardens That Give). Fast distribution helps ensure that food-insecure households receive the freshest organic produce. Crops grown include asparagus, banana peppers, broccoli, bell peppers, butternut squash, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, collard greens, cucumbers, green beans, kale, lettuce (various varieties), okra, onions, peas, potatoes, radishes, summer squash, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard, turnips, and zucchini. The mission of Rice Street Community Garden is to be good stewards of one corner of God’s earth and to share His bounty with those who are most in need. From the tiniest seed, great things grow: community, fellowship, charity, gratitude, a sense of purpose, a sense of place.

06/09/2026

We need plastic grocery bags
for our harvests!
Please bring them to a workday or drop off at the garden shed.

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Glad to play a part in bringing fresh local food to our neighbors today!
06/04/2026

Glad to play a part in bringing fresh local food to our neighbors today!

What a haul of fresh, delicious French radishes! A team of four harvesters dodged the rain showers this afternoon to get...
05/26/2026

What a haul of fresh, delicious French radishes! A team of four harvesters dodged the rain showers this afternoon to get a bountiful batch of lettuce, kale, arugula, turnip greens, and radishes to share with our neighbors. Today's harvest will go to the Hunger Coalition of Transylvania County. Our next workday is this Saturday, 9 am-11 am. Come out and join us!

05/25/2026

Too wet to work in the garden today (May 25)... we'll try again on Saturday morning, May 30.

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05/23/2026

No workday this morning (Saturday, May 23) - too wet! We'll aim for Monday 9-11 am instead.

Some delicious spring lettuce and radishes from the Monday harvest at Rice Street Community Garden. All our volunteers' ...
05/06/2026

Some delicious spring lettuce and radishes from the Monday harvest at Rice Street Community Garden. All our volunteers' efforts in the early spring are paying off with fresh food for our neighbors! Next work day is this Saturday, May 9, 9-11. (Rain date if needed will be Monday morning.)

04/09/2026

A note about traffic this Saturday: The "Assault on the Carolinas" bicycle event starts at 9 am on East Main Street, so plan your route to the garden accordingly! Garden volunteers can use the church parking lot, and enter the back way from Woodside Drive.

Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, we got a lot of early spring vegetables planted on the last two Saturdays (March 21 ...
03/30/2026

Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, we got a lot of early spring vegetables planted on the last two Saturdays (March 21 and 28). Stop by and see! We will not have a work day this Saturday, April 4, but watch for other days to be announced in April. As the weather gets warmer, there will be plenty to do!

We had a great first workday of the year on March 14, w**ding and preparing beds for spring planting. We even got some s...
03/17/2026

We had a great first workday of the year on March 14, w**ding and preparing beds for spring planting. We even got some seeds in the ground, thanks to a great team of volunteers! Come out and join us this Saturday morning (March 21) for some more planting and prepping. The weather should be much warmer by then!

08/22/2025

It's going to be a busy morning at the Rice Street Community Garden this Saturday! We'll have a work day from 9-11 am, and starting at 10 am our local Master Gardeners will be showing kids and families how to count pollinators for the Great Southeast Pollinator Census. Please come out and help us plant fall veggies, w**d, and welcome our visitors!

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Address

317 E Main Street
Brevard, NC
28712

Telephone

(828) 877-4070

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