Gardens For Rent!

Spring will be here before you know it. The Campbell Community Garden has plots open for the 2017 growing season! Plots are available for City of Milwaukie residents with preference given to Hector Campbell Neighbors.

Currently we have 2 small plots open, $30, and one medium plot open $40 + 4 hours of volunteer time per year. Register on the "Rent a Garden" tab. If you want a bigger garden, register and you will be put onto our waiting list (we expect a few more plots to open up soon).

Spring is on the way! The time to get gardening is NOW!

Peppermint Stick Chard and Cut & Come Again
Mustard from Renee's Garden Seeds January 2016

The harvest sharing program is an essential part of the Campbell Community Garden; in 3 plots food is grown to be donated to Esther’s Pantry - just a few miles away from the garden. Gardeners who find themselves with more to harvest than they can eat add to the donations. In 2015 we donated 1,411 pounds of produce. We have donated 9 ½ pounds this month and hope to exceed last years total by the end of the year.

If you want to join our great gardening community rent a plot! We have several spaces open for Milwaukie residents to rent, just $30 a year for a small plot or $40 a year for a medium plot (large plots are all rented). 

• New to gardening? Don’t worry we have several experienced gardeners who will help you out.
• Don’t have tools? No problem. Thanks to generous donors we have tools to use and free seeds too!
• Don’t like vegetables? Grow flowers! You may find yourself eating more veggies and salads when you taste what is truly fresh J

Mid-summer harvest for donation

Winter is a great time to get started, you have time to plan before spring really hits us, and it is nearly time to plant peas and other cool weather crops. We garden year round!

Ruby Gem Romaine, nearly ready for harvest in Winter! Thanks to Renee's Garden Seeds!

Tour the Campbell Community Garden

The Campbell Community Garden will be on the Better Living Garden Tour and Art Fair this coming Saturday, June 21^st. Five other gardens on the tour include Risley Landing Gardens along the Willamette River, three private gardens, and the gardens of Oatfield Estates, an assisted living facility devoted to horticultural therapy – 7 acres with fruit trees, native plants, raised vegetable gardens, and chickens!

Tickets are $10 each, and the proceeds benefit the Sara Hite Memorial Rose Garden at North Clackamas Park. Purchase tickets the morning of the tour at North Clackamas Park on SE Rusk Road off of HWY 224. This is where the art fair will be held, and if you want to meet up and carpool, there is plenty of parking at the park.

The Clackamas Review wrote a nice article about the garden and the tour, you can read it at this link: Tour Local Garden in Full Bloom

See our newly constructed blueberry beds on the tour! Thanks to Parr Lumber in Raleigh Hills for helping us with the cedar boards!

Gardens For Rent!

There are a few open garden plots for the 2014 growing season.

Small 4 foot x 12 foot gardens are $30 for the year
Medium 10 foot x 10 foot gardens are $40 per year
Large gardens are all full.

We tend our gardens organically, using natural gardening techniques. If you want to grow your own food, please join us! Call Sarah Smith for more information: 503-653-0015 or register on the "gardens for Rent" tab.

Campbell Community Garden, late summer 2013

Soil Health & Social

Milwaukie Community Gardens has invited Campbell Community Gardeners to:

Soil Health  & Social

Saturday, May 5th, 10:00-12:00

St. Paul's United Methodist Church
11631 Linwood Ave.

Please join us as we kickoff the gardening season!!

Heather, from Concentrates, will give a talk on building healthy soil.
Refreshments and a chance to meet your garden managers and fellow gardeners will follow.

We have a work day scheduled for this day from 10 to 1:00, however if we are rained out, or if any of our gardeners can't help us with tilling etc. I encourage you to attend.

Soil Health & Social sponsored by Milwuakie Community Gardens