Carrboro Family Garden/Jardín Familiar de Carrboro
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Why pick this one
Carrboro Family Garden/Jardín Familiar de Carrboro provides 10-by-10-foot family plots, supplies, tools, seeds, fertilizer, and gardening guidance.
Best for
- Families with children under 18
- Carrboro or Chapel Hill residents seeking a vegetable garden plot
- Children learning where food comes from
- Beginning gardeners needing tools, seeds, supplies, and basic advice
- Families interested in organic gardening
Look elsewhere if
- People without a child under 18
- People seeking a conventional public park rather than a managed community garden plot
- People seeking individual gardening space outside Carrboro or Chapel Hill
Specialties
- family vegetable garden plots
- organic gardening education for families with children
- beginner gardening assistance
What makes them different
- Each family receives a 10-by-10-foot garden parcel
- Tools, seeds, fertilizer, and other supplies are provided to participating families
- The garden is designed to teach children where food comes from
- Organic gardening uses compost, town-provided leaves, rainwater cisterns, and OWASA water
- Families are not turned away for inability to pay
- Serves
- Carrboro, Chapel Hill
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 1120 Hillsborough Rd, Carrboro, NC 27516-4608
- Website
- https://www.carrborocommunitygarden.org/
Services
- community garden plots
- gardening education
- shared gardening supplies and tools