New Location

We're Growing

Mid-City Community Garden is the process of developing a second site that will allow us to grow more produce while creating another positive social hub in a different part of Mid-City. This new area is anchored by The Preserve, the newly opened apartment complex on Tulane Avenue.

Pickels For Sale

Get homemade pickels for $2.50 a jar. Mid-City Community Garden also has cucumbers, cantaloupe, and sugar babies for sale.

Watch the Chickens Grow

Our 6 Single Comb Danish Brown Leghorns are getting bigger and bigger everyday. Click here to view updated photos of the baby birds.

Volunteers Wanted

Spend the day giving back to your community by helping to beautify Mid-City Community Garden. Sign up to become a volunteer today.
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Neighbors Coming Together to Help Each Other Grow

Mid-City Community Garden is a proud member of (ACGA) American Community Gardening Association. Mid-City Community Garden is an organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of the Mid-City neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Mid-City community realizes that gardening improves quality by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, stimulating social interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods, producing nutritious food, conserving resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education.

In the News

Mid-City Community Garden was featured in an article by New Orleans City Business. Click here to read the article.

The Mid-City Community Garden is featured in the April 2009 edition of New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles magazine. Click here to read the article.

Benefits of Community Gardens

Improves the quality of life for people in the garden
Provides a catalyst for neighborhood and community development
Stimulates social interaction
Encourages self-reliance
Beautifies neighborhoods
Produces nutritious food
Reduces family food budgets
Conserves resources
Creates opportunity for recreation, exercise, therapy, and education
Reduces crime
Preserves green space
Creates income opportunities and economic development
Reduces city heat from streets and parking lots
Provides opportunities for intergenerational and cross-cultural connections

Location

516 S. Salcedo (map)
New Orleans, LA 70119
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