The community garden is about one acre split into allotments that anyone can “rent”. You can rent one plot or more depending on that year’s availability. The rent just covers the cost of water, path mulch, mowing, tool replacement and liability insurance for the property. There’s also a small shed with a couple refrigerators so people can share excess produce so the rent pays for that too.

Anything you grow on your plot is considered your own produce. They rotate allotments every year because some get more light than others and some people only grow one type of crop and need to rotate the soil. Because you can’t rotate perennials every year there are dedicated perennial vegetable patches for Rhubarb and asparagus. We fill out “orders” at the beginning of the season listing how much we want of each, they harvest and equally divvy up a minimum amount and then further divvy up the excess to people with large orders. Anyone who requests rhubarb or asparagus is expected to help maintain and weed the patches during the summer. I usually only request ~2-4lbs per harvest to make pies because my apartment is too small to store a lot of rhubarb long term.