Palencia Collaborative Garden ClubLet's grow something together, right here in the neighborhood.
Palencia Collaborative Garden Club is a live neighborhood garden in St. Augustine. Neighbors plan sites, crops, chores, and spending in the open. Palencia-area neighbors are the core of the club; an organizer reviews every membership request.
New neighbors are approved by an organizer before the member area opens.
Land, beds, and the next site
The club is already growing. Members still scout sun, water, parking, and drainage for the next bed or site. Each option lives on the message board with a vote, so the choice stays on the record.
How joining works
1. Request access
Tell us your street, your skills, and why you're interested.
2. An organizer approves you
Palencia-area neighbors are the core of the club. An organizer reviews every request and emails you.
3. Jump in
Help scout land, claim a chore, and add what you can grow.
How we grow together
Joining is free and open to every Palencia neighbor today. We build this garden by learning from each other, growing food, and pitching in — with knowledge, labor, tools, and know-how. Money helps too: dues, fundraising, and sponsors keep the beds going. This is the shape of a club that takes care of its place and its people, not a rigid rule yet.
Pitch in
Teach, learn, and work the beds. Hours in the garden, chores, work days, and sharing skills, tools, seed, and know-how all count. That's how we become a community, not just a plot.
Keep it going
Contribute financially when you can, help raise funds, or introduce a local sponsor. If we adopt dues, amounts get voted on before anyone is asked to pay — land, water, seed, feed, and coverage have real costs.
Share the harvest
What we grow is meant to be eaten and given. Help harvest, pack, and get food to neighbors, a pantry, or whoever needs it this week.
There is more than one way to belong. Time, skill, tools, food, funds, and connections all keep the garden alive. Talk with an organizer about how you want to help.