Shelby County Community Gardens open for the season
Shelby County Community Gardens planting season kicks off
By Kelly Roberts | April 30, 2021 at 5:46 PM CDT - Updated April 30 at 11:01 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - For its second year, the reestablished Shelby County Community Gardens got a boom in gardeners in part, thanks to the pandemic.
The community gardens were reestablished by Mayor Lee Harris last year. On Friday, the 2021 planting season kicked off.
It’s an initiative to provide free space for residents to grow their own food and nurture a healthy lifestyle. Last year, the gardens started out with about 80 gardeners. Now, all the plots are full with 430 gardeners.