HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDEN | COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP HILLSBOROUGH AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTIES
40 Pine Street, Manchester, NH 03108
Eligibility
Hours
Voice - Service/Intake | Direct Line: Commodity Foods & WIC Programs: Manchester Area
Voice - Service/Intake | Live operator
Voice - Toll Free | In Hillsborough County
Voice - Service/Intake | Automated System
Application process
Submit the application on the website https://www.snhs.org/services/community-gardens For additional questions or assistance with your application, contact the Community Gardens Project at [email protected] or by phone at (603) 668-8010 ext. 6034.
Fees
No fee for low-income families
Service area
Hillsborough county, New Hampshire
Description
Garden plots made available at no cost for income eligible families to grow their own nutritious foods. *What We Provide 25’ x 25’ rototilled & boundary-staked plots Well water from a spigot (no hoses or sprinklers allowed) *What You Provide Seeds & seedlings Watering can or buckets Gardening tools, fertilizers and materials Pest control if needed Regular weeding A minimum of 75% of all gardening space will be reserved for low-income applicants free of charge and the remaining plots will be made available to other interested community members for a donation of $20. The growing season each year closes at the end of September.
Last assured
07/02/2024
What's Here
Providing organization
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP HILLSBOROUGH AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTIES
The mission of Southern NH services is to provide activities designed to assist low-income participants (including the elderly poor) to secure and retain meaningful employment, attain an adequate education, and make better use of available income; to ameliorate the causes of poverty within our community; to meet urgent and immediate individual and family needs; including health, nutrition, housing, and employment related assistance; and to address the problems and barriers which block the achievement of self-sufficiency.