Garden Open and Free Pick Days
Every year the Garden receives plant donations and purchases plants specifically to share with the food banks and the community. By the end of June there are already vegetables being harvested. This year the Garden will be open in the morning or evening several days per month for anyone in the community to pick vegetables from the plants designated for public picking.
Fall Monarch Festival
Together with Arizona Milkweeds for Monarchs, the garden is open one day during monarch migration season for the community to visit the milkweed garden in full bloom and see the monarchs as they stop by to refuel for their long journey.Milkweeds for Monarchs, Sedona Bee Co. and various non-profits hold a mini-fair with crafts for kids, products for sale and garden and butterfly educational presentations.
About the Rotary Community Garden
The Rotary Club of Sedona Village is in the fourth year of growing in the garden. Since we started the garden, we've built 23 raised beds, spread wood chips on many of the walkways and contributed over 1,500 pounds of vegetables to the Sedona Community Food Bank and Sedona Oak Creek Unified School District.
Master Gardener and Club member, Jane Peck, has shared her vision for the Community Garden as a place where everyone in the community can gather to learn and enjoy gardening to produce healthy, organic food. She has energized the programming of the space and initiated the monthly public Open House events.The Community Garden is located at Big Park Community School on the baseball diamond on the north playground. This diamond, known as Doug Colletti’s Field of Dreams, is now a Field of Greens. Working with our location partner, the Sedona Oak-Creek Unified School District, we have created an opportunity to provide a community service that strengthens health, nature, life skills, and creates an atmosphere of cooperation and togetherness.
Garden Beds can be leased for $225 for the year, from April through March of the following year. There are currently Garden Beds available for lease now. Being a Garden Bed tenant gives you access to the garden area, and use of the compost pile, all year, at any time.
Richardson Wright said, “a garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man’s contribution to the community.” The Rotary Club of Sedona Village is committed to an ongoing contribution to the community through this garden project.
Details, garden bed adoption details, project descriptions, volunteer project dates, and more are available. We welcome your enthusiasm and participation with this project. To find out more, click here.
Join us in this exciting endeavor and grow together with the Rotary Club of Sedona Village!
Local organizations actively participating in the Community Garden
