Grow food. Grow community.
A nonprofit urban garden center in southwest Berkeley — with an affordable edible-plant nursery, a shared community farm and free education for everyone.
Community Farm
One big plot for everyone to plant and work on together. The harvest is shared — and given free to neighbors who need it.
Grow with usNursery
Affordable edible plants, culinary & medicinal herbs, natives and drought-tolerant plants. Proceeds fund everything else.
What’s growingEducation
Free workshops, descriptive plant labels, school field trips, youth mentoring and thousands of questions answered a year.
Learn with usFood Policy
Collaboration and advocacy for public policy that promotes healthy food access for all.
Our advocacyA healthier alternative to our current food economy.
Spiral Gardens’ mission is to improve community health and sustainability by providing access to nutritious and affordable produce, promoting a strong local food system, and encouraging productive use of urban soil.
For three decades we’ve been part of the growing movement to recreate a resilient, local food system — one that ties people directly to their sources of sustenance and is proof against economic fluctuations and the corporatization of food.
- Grow food with us
- Grow food at your own home
- Participate in free education
- Help shape local food policy
Plants that thrive in the Bay Area.
One big plot. Shared by everyone.
Unlike most community gardens, our farm isn’t divided into private plots. Volunteers plant, tend and harvest together — and the food is shared with growers, our low-income senior neighbors and anyone in the neighborhood who needs it.
About the Community Farm
“My favorite nursery in the Bay.”
“As a professional gardener this is my favorite nursery to buy plants from for my own garden. No other nursery comes close to their variety of herbs & vegetables.”
Jeanna Mielcarek · Google“The best neighborhood nursery hands down. The staff is very friendly and helpful. They ask how’s your garden coming along — and will help you transport items to your car.”
Nefertiti Scott · Google“Great plant starts especially fruits, veggies and natives! Fair pricing and supports a good cause.”
Angelica Sullam · Google
Come grow with us.
Browse the nursery Friday through Sunday, or join us on the Community Farm on clear-weather Sundays from 1–5pm.