THE EAST PHILLIPS COMMUNITY GARDEN
About the garden...
The East Phillips Community Garden has been around for over a decade, operated by community members and helped manage by the East Phillips Improvement Coalition, Wicoie Nandagikaden, and Garden members. The garden marks a space of reclaimed land in a neighborhood characterized by heavy metal contamination, wherein food can be grown safely in the ground. Years of topsoil replacement, organic matter building, and composting have created layers of new, safe soil. The garden hosts a vibrant perennial wildflower bed, a medicine garden, currant and raspberry bushes, and a small fruit tree orchard of pears, apples, and cherries.
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The garden space is often used for community gatherings and programs, including Wicoie Nandigakaden’s youth garden program, the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI)'s many workshops, and the East Phillips Tool Library. These programs function alongside vibrant community gardener plots managed by various East Phillips residents. We welcome all gardeners - those who have never tended a plot and those who have stewarded land for generations. We hope this can be a space to share knowledge and learn from each other's plots. This community garden is organic, meaning that we do not allow pesticide additives or chemicals. We will provide new gardeners with materials to help them get started.
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Get Involved: Grow or Visit
Anyone living in East Phillips can join the community garden, with applications made available here or printed off on request. We will start accepting applications in March of 2026. If you live outside East Phillips, you can still submit an application, but priority will be given to gardeners in the neighborhood. Email garden@eastphillips.org with any questions or if you need help getting an application.
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A garden member one-page application is linked here for reference: HERE
