Beach Flats and Poet's Park Community Gardens

Don Emilio, longtime gardener of Beach Flats Community Gardens

The Seaside Company leases this land to The City of Santa Cruz for the purpose of supporting the longstanding Community Garden, which has served local families for generations spanning over thirty years.

Poet's Park Community Garden shares a fence with The Beach Flats Community Garden, but they are separate spaces. Residents may join the waitlist for Poet's Park Community Garden, but the larger Beach Flats Community Garden cannot accept new gardeners at this time.

Garden Projects

Kids Garden Club

In partnership with Community bridges, every week, residents of the Beach Flats send their children to the garden to learn about cultivating plants, composting, and what is means to tend a garden.