GYP Community Garden

GYP Community Garden is open to the public

Location

     The Community Garden is found at the end of Lemoore Road, Alameda, CA. The Community Garden cannot be seen from the road. You need to walk in from either Lemoore Road or Orion Street to find the garden, as per the map below.

History

The garden was founded in 1999, when a group of APC staff and residents came out to build the first boxes. Before it was a garden, it was an old baseball field filled with ditches and garbage. But the APC community saw the potential and decided to make it a place where the community could come together, have fun and garden. For years after the garden was made, the GYP expanded it to include more beds, built a cob shade and gathering structure, built a shed and chicken coop, and added more perennial plantings.  Today there is space for over 40 gardeners, as well as a communal orchard and growing space. 

Community Plots

Community plots are garden beds that are made for residents of APC and the city of Alameda to plant whatever they want and take it home. You can get a plot by contacting Katie Casale at the Alameda Collaborative. The plots are free, in exchange for a few hours of volunteering each month for general garden upkeep.   Here is one of our volunteers!

• Work days


• Scheduled quarterly, usually Saturdays


• Garden hours


• Dawn to dusk everyday “rain or shine”

• Garden rules
1. No picking out of others boxes
2. Keep area around your box clean
3. Conserve water
4. No chemical fertilizers or herbicides - “organic please”
5. Some tools available in our garden shed. You can also bring your own tools.
6. Volunteer a few hours each month for general garden upkeep.
   

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GYP builds a chicken coop in the garden and plants the major garden beds.