An organic community garden for
residents of Barrington, RI

Barrington Community Garden Spring Festival, April 27, 10 am to 4 pm

This is a great opportunity to meet fellow gardeners, ask questions and get info from a Master Gardener, exchange plants, and get free seeds. 

Get help wood chipping your North and East Pathways:
April 27 only
During the Spring Festival we have arranged for student volunteers to help with shoveling woodchips. The student volunteers will shovel the wood chips into wheelbarrows and you will only need to transport them to your pathways and spread them – cutting your time at least in half! We encourage all lessees to take advantage of this ONE-TIME opportunity!

Perennial Flower Exchange
For most of us our love of gardening extends beyond vegetables to flowers as well. As such, at the Spring Festival we will be hosting a Perennial Flower Exchange. We will have two sessions: one at 11 am and one at 1:30 pm.

Here’s how it will work:
  • You can bring from 1 to 10 “clumps” of perennial flowers to the exchange. (For purpose of our exchange we will define a clump to have at least 5 independent root systems or have at least 3 independent bulbs.)
  • Please label with the flowers name, color, and approximate height.
  • All involved members will form a circle with all of the flowers paced in the center. Then we will go around the circle and everyone will get to pick their first choice. This will continue with people leaving the circle once they have picked the same number of “clumps” that they brought. For example, if I brought five clumps to the exchange, after the fifth time around the circle I would have five new perennial clumps and would then leave the exchange.

Free resources from URI to help you plan for 2019

Download the updated URI Planting Calendar. This table lists the planting time and days till harvest by vegetable and is a great resource.  

URI Hotline: ​The URI Gardening and Environmental Hotline is staffed by trained URI Master Gardeners to help you identify plants and troubleshoot problems in the garden. Snap a photo with your smartphone and send it to gardener@uri.edu, or call (401) 874-4836 to speak to someone directly. 

We are now on Facebook! 

Barrington Community Garden now has a Facebook page. This is a great place to post photos, ask questions (What is this weird bug on my squash), ask others for favors (Can anyone water my plot while I'm out of town), and more. ​
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Left: One of the many donations that the Barrington Community Garden has made to TapIn, which serves East Bay residents in need. In 2018, we donated close to 300 pounds of food.

​We take great pride in caring for our dedicated garden plots where we grow organic food that we distribute to those in need. 
A throwback picture from the first year, with no fencing to keep out the deer, no shed with tools, and having to haul our own water. 

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