TPL Community Garden

TPL Community Garden Sign

Welcome to the TPL Community Garden!

Interested in joining the garden for the 2024 growing season? Complete your application and liability release and drop off a copy at the Front Desk or email copies to ngoolishian@tewksburypl.org. Available plots are determined on a first come, first served basis in late autumn 2023 with a waitlist following. 

Is the garden for you? Check out our General Garden Information Sheet for an overview. 

The Tewksbury Public Library Community Garden is a place where people of all ages and backgrounds can learn about growing and harvesting food, volunteerism, composting, maintaining open spaces, and what it means to develop a sense of stewardship for the community at large. Additionally, the garden serves as an active partner with the Tewksbury Food Pantry by providing the Pantry with freshly grown, organic produce. The Tewksbury Public Library Community Garden aims to provide resources, programming, and materials to support this dual mission. Gardening here is open to gardeners of all levels of experience.

Individual plots are available to Tewksbury Public Library card holders on a first come, first served basis: 

  • Individuals with a plot are free to plant almost any vegetable, fruit, or flower they would like (prohibitions and recommendations are listed with the GardenCommunity garden sale table Rules & Responsibilities).
  • All individual plots are maintained exclusively by the families or individuals who “own” those plots for the growing season.
  • Individual plot owners are required to care for a companion plot in the community portion of the garden, as well as help with other events and projects throughout the growing season.

Community plots are maintained collectively by individual plot holders and volunteers.

  • All food harvested from the community plots is either delivered to the Tewksbury Food Pantry or sold at the Tewksbury Community Market to keep our garden self-sustaining.
  • All volunteers are supervised by the Garden Managers and overseen by the Library Liasion.

More Information

USDA People's Garden Logo

In 2023, the Tewksbury Public Library Community Garden was officially recognized as a "People's Garden" through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's program celebrating sustainable practices that benefit people and wildlife and teaching the community about gardening and resilient, local food systems. Learn more about this initiative here