Garden District Columbus, OH

06/09/2026

This Friday, June 12, come out to Signatures Tavern in Gahanna for a night of live music with Kismet Notes, presented by 614 Musicians United. The Garden District is the featured frontline partner for this show, which means your presence directly supports our work growing food and building community across Columbus.
614 Musicians United brings together local bands and local causes to make a real impact right here in central Ohio. Live local. Give local. Make an impact.

Signatures is located in Gahanna and the music starts Friday night. Come for the show, stay for the community, and know that just by showing up you are helping us do what we do.
See you there.

06/09/2026

This Sunday, June 14, the Garden District is one of the stops on the Grange Insurance Audubon Center's 2026 Native Garden Tour. The tour runs from 10 am to 2 pm and takes you through some of the most intentional and beautiful native plantings in Columbus.
Native plants mean healthier soil, cleaner water, and more pollinators. They also mean less work and more life in your garden. Come see what that looks like in practice and leave with a few ideas for your own space.

Stop by and say hi at 1311 College Ave, Columbus 43209. We will have free plants to give away while supplies last.

Tickets and full tour details here: https://tickets.audubon.org/events/019dfdde-ca04-30b9-bf6c-5b897b554d31

06/04/2026

28 pounds of fresh produce out of Lutheran Social Services Of Central Ohio Community Farm this morning and straight into the pantry next door. Beautiful skies, good company, and raised beds doing exactly what they were planted to do. What a way to start the day.

06/03/2026

614 Musicians United is bringing live music and local impact together all month, and we are honored to be their frontline partner for the June 12 show at Signatures Tavern in Gahanna.

Kismet Notes will be performing that Friday night, and the spotlight will shine on the work the Garden District Corporation does across Columbus through community growing, fresh food access, and neighbor-led programming.

Come enjoy great live music, support a local venue, and learn more about what we are building together in this city. We would love to see you there.

June 12. Signatures Tavern, Gahanna. Kismet Notes. Come out.

06/03/2026

06/02/2026

Look at these trees.

Columbus has two free upick orchards open to the public right now, and tart cherry season is here.

Stoddart Avenue Community Garden
445 Stoddart Ave, Columbus 43205

Southside Fruit and Flower Farm
345 Reeb Ave, Columbus 43207

Bring a container, bring a neighbor, and come enjoy what your city has growing. Know your city. Get involved. Eat local.

05/26/2026

We have two new free little pantries in the community, and the story behind them is worth sharing.

Katie Benton and Erin Bowden at Barrington Elementary organized the whole thing with their students and school families. The kids decorated them with fingerprint flowers. Families signed up to restock on rotation. Each pantry is stocked with canned goods, toiletries, and even birthday kits for anyone who has something to celebrate.

And we have to give a shout out to our neighbor Chris Caridas, who volunteers at our sites once a month and just handles whatever needs to be done, usually the heavy lifting. The pathway leading up to one of these pantries is there because Chris showed up and built it.

This is what community looks like. We are grateful for all of it and cannot wait to add fresh garden produce to the mix this season. Take what you need, leave what you can.

05/26/2026

It did not snow in Columbus this morning. That is cottonwood season doing what it does.

The beds at LIFE Community Farm are coming in beautifully underneath all that fluff, drip lines are set, and the soil is happy. Nature has a sense of humor and we are here for it.

05/22/2026

Something incredible happened at our near east community farm this week. Luke from the bee collective brought over a swarm and our hives have new life in them.

Fun fact most people don’t know: honey bees are not native to the Americas. European settlers brought them over in the 1600s as a farming tool. Indigenous peoples called them “the white man’s fly” because the bees spread westward even faster than the settlers did.

Now they pollinate about a third of everything we eat.

Grateful to Luke and the Columbus bee collective for this gift to our farm and our gardens. Come visit us and see them for yourself.