Gardens

2025 Virtual Community Garden Tour

Darden Garden at Capper Foundation
St. Matthews Catholic School Garden
Scott Dual Language Magnet Elementary School
Kansas Children’s Discovery Center Garden
LULAC Garden
I-Care Garden
KNI Garden
Circles Garden

Our affiliated gardens grow produce to share with their neighbors, organizational members, or the community. Many donate surplus produce to area food pantries. If you do not participate in a Community Garden, but have a private garden at your home, we ask you to consider growing an extra row for the hungry and donating excess produce from your garden to a local food pantry or food distribution site. 

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List of Community Gardens in Shawnee County

  • Bethany House and Garden
  •           835 SW Polk St.
  • Capper Foundation Darden Garden 
    • 3500 SW 10th
  • Countryside United Methodist Church
    • 33rd and Burlingame
  • Daryl Hurley Garden/ Vegetation Plantation
  •           8753 SW 53rd St. 
  • East Topeka Senior Center
  •           432 SE Norwood
  • Exploring Life, Inc. & Community of Christ Church – Peace Garden
    • 19th & Fairmont
  • First Congregational Church Community Garden
    • 1701 SW Collins
  • French Middle School Garden
    • 5257 SW 37th St. 
  • Gil Carter Food Forest
  •           6th & Rogers
  • Helen & Walt Laughlin Community Garden (formerly the Historic Old Town Garden)
  •           725 SW Buchanan St.
  • Hi-Crest Community Garden
    • SE Colfax south of 37th Street (behind Southern Hills Mennonite Church, 511 SE 37th)
  • Jardine Elementary School Garden
  •           2600 SW 33rd St.
  • Kansas Neurological Institute Gardens
    • 3107 SW 21st Street
  • LULAC Senior Center Garden
  •          1502 NE Seward Avenue
  • Shawnee County Extension Demonstration Vegetable & Community Garden
  •           2303 SW College (CRC Center at Stout school)
  • Shawnee County Health Department WIC Garden
  •            2600 SW East Circle Drive
  • TARC Avenues – Garden of Possibilities
    • 2701 SW Randolph
  • Topeka Oakland Gardens
    • 1033 NE Michigan (Lundgren School Grounds)
  • Topeka Transplants
  •           3224 SW Arnold
  • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Community Garden
    • 4775 SW 21st
  • Vida Ministry Community Garden
    • 1701 Collins
  • Washburn University Community Garden
  •            1700 SW College Ave.
  • Whitson Elementary School
    •  1725 SW Arnold Avenue
  • Williams Science & Fine Arts  Magnet School Garden
    • 1301 SE Monroe