Mission:
Memphis City Gardens provides an environment for urban gardeners to cultivate and grow fresh vegetables, herbs, and plants at a convenient downtown location.
Strategies:
Enhances urban beautification
Low maintenance bed gardens
Urban garden landscapes
Home grown plants in a social atmosphere
Promotes healthy living
Productive physical activity
Provides healthy food to encourage good nutrition
Educates the community on gardening and horticulture
Gardening becomes a social neighborhood practice
Growing encourages educational research while actively planting and sustaining a garden
Encourages Green Initiatives
Composting from “Green” local restaurants promotes active recycling
Provides composting for plant waste in a convenient location
Organic and natural growing practices are encouraged
Productive reuse of dormant land
