Welcome to Ridgewood Community Garden

Ridgewood is a multicultural community. The community garden is a place for people to visit and mingle while their children work alongside, wander and discover, or play at the playground. It’s a place for families to grow food, to make new friends, and to share their own cultural gardening practices. Where there was once an unused skating rink is now a flourishing garden that serves as a place and purpose to bring together community members.

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. – Jenny Uglow

The community garden was opened on June 1, 2019, and has a selection of raised bed and in-ground gardens available to our community members.  There is also an orchard located within the garden that includes apples, plums, cherries, haskaps, blueberries, rhubarb, grapes, raspberries, and blackberries.  All members of the garden help care for the orchard and in turn all partake in the harvest.

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The garden in June 2024

While all of the 42 plots inside the community garden are spoken for 2024, the flower garden around the gazebo is open to the public. We'd love for you to stop by and enjoy the garden.

Are you interested in being put on the waiting list for a community garden plot in 2025?

If so, please use the contact form to send us a message and let us know!

2024 Garden Events

Sunday, May 4, 2024 - 10 am
Location: Ridgewood Community Garden (Gazebo) - 3705 Mill Woods Rd East
Annual General Meeting & Spring Work Bee

​Ridgewood Community Garden Opening Day

Ridgewood Community Garden Tree Planting and Grand Opening was held on Saturday, June 1, 2019. We spent the morning planting a wide selection of fruit bearing trees and shrubs, with labor generously provided by volunteers from  our sponsors. Tree Canada, Pembina Pipeline Edmonton Immigration Services Association, Ridgewood Community and the gardening committee.

Tree Canada awarded our garden a grant that allowed us to purchase an amazing selection of edible trees and shrubs. Representatives from Tree Canada, Pembina Pipeline, Ridgewood Community League and MP Amarjeet Sohi all spoke to mark this occasion.  We were also happy to welcome local MLA Jasvir Deol and show him our new garden.

Once the trees and shrubs were planted and the wood chips spread, we enjoyed a BBQ lunch, face painting, and painting tree stump markers to decorate our huge community pumpkin patch. 

Thank you to our sponsors for providing us with the necessary funds to build attractive, long-lasting raised garden beds, as well as the soil, tools and so much more that has allowed our garden to be built.   And thank you to all the youth, children and adults who have worked so hard to make this garden a reality!
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Ridgewood Community Garden gratefully recognizes our sponsors: Ridgewood Community League, Sustainable Food Edmonton, City of Edmonton, Tree Canada, Pembina Pipelines and Scotts Miracle-gro Canada.