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WPC Community Gardens are now available for endowment! Click here to learn more.
Give the "gift of flowers." Sponsor a Community Garden and enjoy the benefits of a greener Western Pennsylvania all summer long!
2009 has been another spectacular year. Our community gardens have been put to bed for the winter thanks to the help of so many volunteers. Our staff is hard at work preparing for another successful year for 2010. Please stay tuned to learn about all that is happening to our gardens!
If you would like to know how you might be able to get involved next spring, please contact Lynn McGuire-Olzak at lolzak@paconserve.org for more information.
Congratulations to stewards and volunteers of the 2009 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Community Greening Award Winners!
- 13th St. & Otter St. - Franklin
- Boulevard of the Allies @ Parkview Ave. - Oakland
- Brighton Rd. & Charles St. - California-Kirkbride
- Brownsville Rd. & Maple Springs Rd. - South Park
- Chestnut St. & E. Ohio St. - East Allegheny
- General Robinson St. & Anderson St. - North Shore
- Highland Park Bridge @ Butler St. - Highland Park
- Parkway West - Greentree Interchange - Green Tree
- S. 18th St. - Riverfront Park - South Side
WPC’s community gardens are seen more than 5 million times a day, based on PennDOT statistics. Each year, more than 200,000 flowers are planted by volunteers — nearly enough to make a flowerbed stretching from Pittsburgh to the West Virginia border.
We are thankful to our friends at The Pittsburgh Project and GTECH who take all of our plants from the Community Gardens and Downtown Plantings and compost them after they have been pulled in the fall. The composted materials will serve as beneficial fertilizer for their own projects that provide community greening and valuable production of edible crops and alternate energy crops, respectively.
Become a Community Garden Volunteer!
Get together with your neighbors, meet other garden lovers, and make your community more beautiful! Volunteering to plant or tending to a Conservancy community garden during the summer is a wonderful way to make a difference.
Planting or Pull-out day can be a great family experience or a fine outing for your group or organization. We plant rain or shine, primarily on weekends in May, and most plantings take about 4 hours to complete. No prior experience or skill needed!
Join the more than 8,000 volunteers who make the Community Gardens a special commitment.
Learn more about being a community garden volunteer
View our gorgeous gardens
Meet our generous Community Gardens & Greenspace Sponsors
Learn more about being a community garden volunteer
Locate our gardens
Take a tour of our gardens
Know our generous Community Garden & Greenspace Sponsors
Help our Gardens Grow
Give the gift of Flowers
