Our Gardens
We take great pride in our four amazing gardens, which are paid for by annual plot fees and built and maintained using service hours.
Fee Update for 2025 Season: Plot fees and their structure across our four gardens, beginning with the 2025 gardening season. With this change in plot fees comes an opportunity to enhance equity across our gardens and plots and ensuring each of our four garden locations can reasonably sustain its size and infrastructure.
For a cost breakdown by garden, download the 2025 Plot Fee Chart
Photo by Simon Markham
Mack Park Garden
Mack Park is a gardener's garden. Located at the top of Mack Park, the in-ground plots here are huge. The experience of Mack Park's gardeners is obvious, as their crops are unique, beautiful, and clearly bountiful. Plots are $50 for the season.
Mack Park Garden Captain is: OPEN - Recruiting for captains!
Palmer Cove Garden
Renovations are complete! The newly completed garden has 70+ large raised beds, including seven fully accessible, ADA-compliant beds. Thanks to a grant partnership from Keep Salem Beautiful, we have a pollinator garden featuring native wildflowers each season! Located on the Salem Street side of Palmer Cove Park in the heart of Salem. Boxes are $60 for the season.
Palmer Cove Garden Captain: Quinn Delaney - Recruiting for (2) Co-Captains!
Splaine Park
Nestled within a little-known Central Salem ball field and playground, Splaine is a wonderful place to garden while the family plays or watches a game. This garden offers 4'x8' traditional-depth beds (12"), and 3.5'x5' beds at 34"deep easy access. It's home to our cooperative effort with Salem's Native Tree + Shrub Nursery, and features donation plots that educate our community + honor the Indigenous planting practices of the tribes on whose land we garden. Boxes are $25 or $45 depending on size.
Splaine Park Garden Co-Captains: Kate Hanson & Scott Booth
Pickman Park
Pickman Park is located in South Salem, in the middle of a gorgeous salt marsh on an unused tennis court, and features 4x4' and 2x8' raised beds. Watch red-tailed hawks, wild turkeys and snowy egrets while you garden. Boxes are $25 for the season.
Pickman Park Garden Co- Captains: Maeve Sullivan & Emily Grebenstein