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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.
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
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Location
516 S. Salcedo (map)
New Orleans, LA 70119
Get Mailing Address
Saturdays, 8 am to 1 pm
504.251.9818
Email Us
Sponsors
Hilbert's by Accident
Hands On
The Domain Companies
Triple B Fence
New Orleans Food & Farm Network
Parkway Bakery and Tavern
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