Lawrence Community Gardens

Lawrence Community Gardens Our 7.6 acre youth farm is located in Lawrence and our vision is to provide fresh, affordable produce to our community and support local food pantries.

Carrots are ready for harvest 🥕👩🏾‍🌾
03/30/2024

Carrots are ready for harvest 🥕👩🏾‍🌾

11/29/2023

The Indiana nutrient management calculator is a new upcoming tool created by Marion County Soil & Water Conservation District that will help growers determine fertilizer rates and amounts for vegetable crops. We need a small group of growers to join us for two virtual sessions to test the tool and provide feedback. 📣

Apply here: https://forms.gle/vj4BjjDwu66PDe4X9

Volunteer days postponed!Thank you to the folks who signed up to help us tear down & setup our hoophouse on Wednesday 8/...
08/29/2023

Volunteer days postponed!

Thank you to the folks who signed up to help us tear down & setup our hoophouse on Wednesday 8/30 & Thursday 8/31. We will update with new dates soon

If you have time to help, please! This is how we teach our youth resiliency. We get up! We make a way! We don’t give up!...
08/18/2023

If you have time to help, please! This is how we teach our youth resiliency. We get up! We make a way! We don’t give up! 💪🏾✊🏾👩🏾‍🌾

Update - volunteer days postponed. Thank you to the folks who signed up to help us tear down & setup our hoophouse on We...
08/18/2023

Update - volunteer days postponed.

Thank you to the folks who signed up to help us tear down & setup our hoophouse on Wednesday 8/30 & Thursday 8/31. We will update with new dates soon
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‼️VOLUNTEER CALLOUT‼️

We have a new home! A big step for our move from Lawrence Community Gardens to Octavia's Visionary Campus is teardown and set up of our hoophouse. Saturday, August 26 we will have a workday to prep for the move. Wednesday, August 30 we will be tearing down the hoophouse at Lawrence Community Gardens and on Thursday, August 31 we will be setting up at Octavia's Visionary Campus. No experience needed, Nifty Hoops will be on site to lead our Wednesday and Thursday sessions. Lunch will be provided!

We know Wednesday and Thursday is not ideal for a lot of working folks but please come out if you can!

Signup Genius Link below!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094AA5AA2AAAF5C16-lcgtoovc

“For every ending comes a new beginning.”We are a mix of emotions as we announce this will be Lawrence Community Gardens...
08/09/2023

“For every ending comes a new beginning.”

We are a mix of emotions as we announce this will be Lawrence Community Gardens last season. We found out earlier this year that the land we have been leasing for 7 years is being sold and come November 1, 2023 we have to be off.

Our new beginning will be at Octavia’s Visionary Campus, Kheprw Institute’s 17 acre space on the south side.

More details to come as we make this transition. Thank you for your continued support 💚

We’re at the half way point of our Next Generation Farmers Summer Program. Highlights from the past week:* Ms. Shellie w...
06/28/2023

We’re at the half way point of our Next Generation Farmers Summer Program.
Highlights from the past week:
* Ms. Shellie with Chase Bank gave a workshop on financial basics that was informative and interactive for our youth.
* Our teams had a w**ding competition & we broke out our produce scale to weigh each teams’ yield.
* Ms. Sam opened our front hive & youth tried on different beekeeping gear
* We covered our watermelon & cantaloupe rows with black plastic to assist with w**d suppression
* We are trellising our climbing plants (beans & cucumber) & Florida weaving our tomatoes

Last week was the first week of our summer Next Generation Farmers Program and it was a wonderful mix of rain and sunsh...
06/21/2023

Last week was the first week of our summer Next Generation Farmers Program and it was a wonderful mix of rain and sunshine & work and play.

Some highlights from last week:
1. Our youth prepped and direct sowed their own tires with a plant of their choosing.
2. Our youth learned how to properly water at the base of the plant. They also learned about natural pesticides.
3. Youth transplanted cilantro.
4. Ms. Sam gave a beekeeping workshop and youth got to take home some raw, from the hive honey!

We’re looking forward to the next 4 weeks of teaching and learning from our youths.

It’s been 5 years since our first official Next Generation Summer Youth Program! Plant a seed in a young person and watc...
06/18/2023

It’s been 5 years since our first official Next Generation Summer Youth Program!

Plant a seed in a young person and watch it grow beyond your wildest dream! There is magic here….stop by and experience it for yourself!

Our last Spring Volunteer Saturdays is this weekend! We will not have volunteer Saturdays again until July. This Saturda...
05/15/2023

Our last Spring Volunteer Saturdays is this weekend! We will not have volunteer Saturdays again until July.

This Saturday (5/20/23) our focus will be watering and w**ding all of our baby plants. We hope to see you there!

Signup below💚
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094AA5AA2AAAF5C16-lawrence1

Our youth are why we do this work!This past week 2 of our youth were highlighted for their accomplishments at school and...
05/11/2023

Our youth are why we do this work!

This past week 2 of our youth were highlighted for their accomplishments at school and we want to celebrate them.

Evan completed his culinary program through the McKenzie Center for Technology and Innovation and will be graduating in a couple weeks 🎉 🥳

Johan gave a presentation for his Architecture project and received a scholarship for his hard work and dedication to the program 🤗🎊

Congratulations Evan and Johan. We are so proud 💚

Address

9240 East 46th Street
Indianapolis, IN
46235

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 2pm
Tuesday 8am - 2pm
5pm - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 2pm
Thursday 8am - 2pm
5pm - 8pm
Friday 8am - 2pm
5pm - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 1pm

Telephone

(317) 748-2437

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