SW Community Gardens

SW Community Gardens A public and private community garden geared towards food, friendships, flowers, and social justice.

The SW Community Garden opened on July 31st, 2013 with the help of Fiskars, The Home Depot, and DC Department of Parks and Recreation. The garden is the culmination of a year long effort by a group of green-thumbed SW residents that found a common interest, and worked to bring it to fruition. The garden initially consisted of 34 raised beds: 2 that are wheelchair accessible, 4 that are specificall

y reserved for residents of the 4 surrounding public housing complexes, and 10 that are worked communally. In 2014, the garden won a DC Love Your Block grant and added 3 additional plots in October 2014, bringing the total number of plots to 37. The communal section grows food for not only its volunteers but for the neighborhood as well. Anyone is welcome to help out in this section during our open work days. The goal of the garden is to create a space where residents can interact with one another and nature, while also serving as an educational tool that provides local, fresh food to the neighborhood.

Happening this Saturday, 10am-1pm! We'll have donuts and coffee from Good Company to kick off the event and lunch from F...
04/23/2026

Happening this Saturday, 10am-1pm! We'll have donuts and coffee from Good Company to kick off the event and lunch from Falafel Inc. Hope you can join us in the garden as we prep it for the 2026 growing season!

13th Annual Spring Kick-off: This Saturday at 10am! After a complete fumble on giving y'all proper notice for the pre-kick-off work day, I'm back, with advance notice for the garden's 13th annual spring kick-off happening this Saturday, April 25th at 10am! We've secured 4 dozen doughnuts and a box...

SWCG Newsletter: 13th Annual Kick-off, This Saturday! -
04/20/2026

SWCG Newsletter: 13th Annual Kick-off, This Saturday! -

13th Annual Spring Kick-off: This Saturday at 10am! After a complete fumble on giving y'all proper notice for the pre-kick-off work day, I'm back, with advance notice for the garden's 13th annual spring kick-off happening this Saturday, April 25th at 10am! We've secured 4 dozen doughnuts and a box...

SWCG Newsletter: Pre Kick-off Work Day, Tomorrow at 10am! -
04/10/2026

SWCG Newsletter: Pre Kick-off Work Day, Tomorrow at 10am! -

Pre-kick-off Work Day: tomorrow!  So sorry for the extremely late notice, but if you can, please join us tomorrow at 10am in the garden as we prepare the garden for the official kick-off on April 25th! Also, if you get a chance let us know your favorite vegetables and any activities you'd like to...

SWCG Newsletter: Share your input to help guide the garden this year! -
03/30/2026

SWCG Newsletter: Share your input to help guide the garden this year! -

We need your feedback! As indicated by all the activities that happened last weekend, spring is heating up literally and socially! A few weeks ago, a few farmhands came together to brainstorm some ideas for activities and seeds we want to plant this year. Please let us know what you think by voting....

SWCG Newsletter: 👀 Spring Is Near! 🌱 -
03/09/2026

SWCG Newsletter: 👀 Spring Is Near! 🌱 -

Garden warm-up, Garden glow-up! Welcome, new and returning farmhands, to garden year 13 for the SW Community Garden! The garden didn’t have much of a winter “break” these last couple of months, more like, a cryo-freeze. With all the ice, snow, and snowcrete, this was probably the most frigid w...

10/26/2025

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1098 Delaware Avenue SW
Washington D.C., DC
20024

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Wednesday 6pm - 7pm
Sunday 4pm - 6pm

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