Saint Paul is home to more than 60 community gardens engaging over 200 volunteers and more than 100 community vegetable gardeners.  Gardening on City property may happen in a variety of ways:

Volunteer to maintain an ornamental public garden by planting, weeding, mulching and picking-up litter.  Click here to fill out the volunteer application form.  Make sure to mark the "Garden Steward" box and the location you want to garden. If you are not sure of where you want to garden please state so in the box.  The Gardens Coordinator will call/e-mail you back soon to set up your volunteer experience. 

If you are a volunteer reporting your hours, click here, login and enter your hours.

If you are looking for a garden plot for growing vegetables or flowers; or looking for gardening resources, contact Gardening Matters at (612) 492-8964.

The Saint Paul Department of Public Works has recently made approximately eight acres of land available for community vegetable gardens.  For information about these properties and to inquire about gardening on them, please click here.

If you are interested in starting a new Blooming Saint Paul project, contact the following people for the following types of projects:         

If your project involves:

• Installation of new gardens on City park property or parkways

• Major redesign and landscaping of streetscapes and public spaces 
• New building construction
• Street reconstruction

Contact Saint Paul Parks and Recreation Design Manager at
         651-266-6424

If your project involves:

• replanting existing gardens or planters
• installation of hanging baskets
• development of community gardens and/or new gardens on Park property and parkways         

Contact Saint Paul Parks and Recreation Arts and Gardens Coordinator
         at 651-632-2454

 If your project involves:

• incorporation of planting beds within traffic medians
• street reconstruction
• traffic calming initiatives

        
Contact Saint Paul Public Works Traffic Engineer at 651-487-7200

Thanks for making Saint Paul beautiful!