Somerville Community Growing Center

Garden hosts workshops, performances and community events.

The Growing Center is a quarter-acre community garden that also hosts environmental education and cultural performances in Somerville. Designed and built by local residents in 1994 and maintained...

Posted by by Christine Liu at Citysearch on March 10, 2010. Brought to you by Citysearch.

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The Somerville Community Growing Center is an amazing site run by volunteers that really seeks to grow with the local community and provide programs that help educate community members around sustainability and urban agriculture. On top of all that, they host a variety of fun events appropriate for the whole family! They do camping, sing-alongs, meditation events and provide opportunities for...

Posted by Jared Worful on March 06, 2015. Brought to you by facebook.

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Posted by Liz Mackin on November 30, 2014. Brought to you by facebook.

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Posted by Roberto Lim on September 18, 2014. Brought to you by facebook.

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Posted by Cheri Ruane on June 24, 2014. Brought to you by facebook.

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The Growing Center is a key piece of a healthy vibrant urban community - it provides a natural gathering space, oasis, meditation spot, and safe place to play among the trees, plants, bugs, and birds. A community gem.

Posted by Tai Dinnan on November 18, 2013. Brought to you by facebook.

The Somerville Community Growing Center garden is a place for people of all ages and backgrounds to gather, learn, and celebrate to grow community.

Posted on May 01, 2015. Brought to you by facebook.

This educational garden and performance space takes the idea of compact gardening to a whole new level. On just over ¼-acre of sloping ground, the garden packs in an orchard, vegetable gardens, a grape arbor, a pond and stream, a labyrinth, an amphitheater, a solar-powered fountain and—safely in the back—a beehive. The event schedule is just as jam-packed. All of it is the work of a horde of...

Posted on July 16, 2011. Brought to you by patch.