Community Gardens
General Information

The Gardens were featured on NCB-2 Fort Myers

Click Here to view the story and video.

The garden beds are sold out as of December 7, 2011!

If you would like to be placed on a wait list for a

bed please click here to send an e-mail

request to the Foundation

Want to enjoy your own garden bed in the park?

All gardeners must read and agree to the Lakes Park

Community Garden Rules and Regulations,

please click here to view the document, then

Click Here to reserve a bed.

The Community Garden of Lakes Park…DIG IT! A lot of people do.

Click here for and article by Jim Dwyer from the June 2010 Issue

of South West Florida Parent and Child about the garden.

The Lakes Park Enrichment Foundation, in association with
Lee County Parks and Recreation, is proud to announce the
inception of the Community Garden of Lakes Park, which is the
first phase of the Lakes Park Botanic Garden. The Community
Garden is comprised of sixty-nine (69), 4’ x 8’ raised garden beds
in a delightful sunburst arrangement.

For a $50 annual rental, with all proceeds benefiting the Lakes Park Enrichment
Foundation and being re-invested back into Lakes Park, these beds will be

available to “Local-Vores”, a.k.a. community citizens wishing to cultivate produce or

flowering species within the Community Garden of Lakes Park. This progressive concept

is an effort to revive the practice of growing produce and planting close to home.

Each Community Gardener will be required to sign an agreement, to uphold the regulations of the Community Garden, namely restrictions on the use of pesticides and fertilizers, pledge to maintain the Community Garden plot and attend quarterly a meeting. Gardeners will supply their own tools and plants. Extension Agent Roy Beckford will be offering a variety of courses in best practices for good yields from the garden plots.

Electronic Registration is on a first come-first serve basis. Click on the Reserve a Bed link above to secure your bed NOTE: All gardeners must agree to the Lakes Park Community Garden Rules and Regulations.

Patrons of Lakes Park, including Community Gardeners, are required to pay for parking.
Currently, parking fees are:
$1.00 per hour
$5.00 per day
$50.00 per year (which includes parking at most Lee County Parks)

Community Garden Newsletters

Questions?

Garden questions contact Betsy Barbour our Community Garden Coordinator via e-mail: Info@LakesParkEnrichmentFoundation.org or call (239) 533-7529.