Joining a community garden or collective allotment is a great way to start the journey into growing.
Friendly
A great way to meet new people in your local area and be part of community.
Beautiful
Community and collective gardens and allotments often include tranquil orchards and wildlife areas.
Roles for all
Community growing can accommodate disabilities and different interests.
Flexible
Come when it works for you, knowing others are sharing the garden care.
Learning spaces
No experience or knowledge needed, you can be guided by others.
Fresh food
Unlike volunteering, you are growing for your own dinner!
Browse all the beautiful and diverse community and collective gardens and allotments across the area. Check out more details on our Resilience Web, such as location, meeting days, cost, accessibility and how to join.
West Bath
Blooming Whiteway
Blooming Whiteway offers all sorts of projects about gardening as a neighbourhood to increase biodiversity and local food. These include planting for wildlife and food in Whiteway Green, a front gardens festival, wildlife walks, art events, and pollinator beds. More details..
Bath City Farm horticulture
Spanning 37 acres between Whiteway and Twerton, the city farm welcomes volunteers to help garden the raised vegetable beds, polytunnels, forest gardens and orchards. More details..
Timebank Plus Community Allotment
Timebank Plus, a friendly charity in Twerton, has one of the allotments at the bottom of Bath City Farm. It’s a social space for people who want to grow fruit and vegetables and share the harvest. Everyone is welcome – no experience is necessary, and there is nothing to pay. More details..
Roots Allotments Tuckers Meadow
Details coming soon…
From the Land
In 2012 Martin and Su bought 8 acres of beautiful, fertile land between Whiteway and Englishcombe. The group now grows fruit, vegetables and flowers with chemical free, permaculture methods and makes land grown products, including juices, wreathes, green wood and willow objects. The aim is to nourish people as well as the land, welcoming volunteers and teaching regenerative growing to local residents. More details..
Hanna Close Community Garden
Nestled next to a path near Twerton Park football ground, this a space for the local community, where anyone passing by or living in the local area can get involved or help themselves to the odd raspberry, blackcurrant or globe artichoke. The garden is getting a little overgrown and is looking for new people to take care and restore her. More details..
Central Bath
Bath Organic Group
‘BOG’ is a large community garden in Victoria Park allotments, established for over 20 years, spearheading organic growing in the area. A committee design each the garden developments and volunteers organise tasks to grow the produce, which is grown for their own consumption, with some also sold at the farmers market to fund the garden’s costs. More details..
Smallcombe Nuttery
Nestled by the skyline walk near Bathwick, the Nuttery was created by Transition Bath. There are around 40 nut trees including cobnuts, almonds and walnuts, a fruiting hedge, and fruit bushes. The nuts and berries are grown for community use so come and take a fair share when they are ripe. Nutteries need only occasional maintenance and work days are advertised via Transition Bath. More details..
The Urban Garden
A garden centre in Victoria Park that uses all profits to support training, helping to improve the mental health and wellbeing of local adults. Volunteers help alongside staff and trainees to support the day to day running of this social enterprise. More details..
East Bath
Alice Park Community Garden
Managed and gardened by volunteers, sharing skills and
knowledge, Alice Park Community Garden in Larkhall aims to model community resilience and food self-sufficiency. It’s also social hub where local community members
can gather. More details..
Dry Arch Growers
A large well established community allotment in Bathampton with large vegetable beds, polytunnels, greenhouses, fruit bushes and a small orchard. Pay annual membership and share and learn from other growers, sharing the harvests amongst the membership. More details..
Orchardshare
A community group run by volunteers who work to conserve and maintain orchards to supply locally grown apples around Bath. They look after and harvest from Orchards in Northend (Batheaston), at Dry Arch, and also in the village of Wellow. More details..
Waterleaze Growers
Waterleaze is half an acre of sunny, spring fed, south facing land on the lower slopes of Solsbury Hill accessed off Bailbrook Lane. Since 2023 an intrepid group have started to restore the mature fruit trees, overgrown ponds and coldframes, and create vegetable and fruit beds. Highlights include orchids, flapjacks and campfires. More details..
Batheaston Forest Garden
Created lovingly by volunteers since 2021, the forest garden is full of food plants such as apple, pear, hazelnut and cherry trees, blackcurrants, herbs and perennial vegetables. It’s also a haven for wildlife, a lovely spot for children to explore, and a place for quiet reflection. Visit any time. Find it beyond the riverside carpark and Secret Garden. More details..
Roots Allotments Avon Views
A new commercially provided allotment site looking on rolling hills just outside Bathford. Roots offer a range of plot sizes and everything you need to get started with growing your own fruit and veg. More details..
Sites across the Bath area
Bath & NE Somerset Allotment Association
Details coming soon…
