Cultivators Directory
Explore our network of local urban farms, community gardens, and sustainable nurseries committed to growing a more resilient New Orleans.
24 Carrot Garden
2123 Port St., St. Roch
A community garden and educational initiative run by the Material Institute, an experimental arts and ecology non-profit organization. It functions as a "living classroom" designed to combat local food insecurity by pairing agro-ecology with creative self-expression. The garden hosts various youth initiatives where kids learn hands-on sustainable gardening, ecology, beekeeping, chicken care, and healthy cooking techniques. The plot boasts over 50 native plant species, including a budding Bald Cypress forest, American Persimmon, and wild indigo. The garden also hosts a "Cultivation Residency" program for adult growers and distributes fresh food through the community "fill the fridge" days.
9th Ward Community Farm
2626 Lizardi St., Lower 9th Ward
A transformative urban agricultural space cultivated by the National Black Food & Justice Alliance. Functioning as a living sanctuary for food sovereignty and Black self-determination, the farm serves as a regional organizing hub that brings together Black farmers, youth, elders, herbalists, and artists. Rather than operating as just a production lot, the space blends community care, land-based healing, and structural food justice. The farm provides a tangible glimpse into a cooperative, self-determining food economy designed to empower the historic community surrounding it.
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Barcelo Garden
2301 Gallier St., 9th Ward
Crazy Plant Bae
716 N. Claiborne Ave., Treme
525 Harrison Ave., Lakeview
A three-generation, Black & woman-owned, multi-generational family business that sells indoor houseplants, offers plant design services and hosts community workshops. Housed in a historic, spacious former bank building packed with lush indoor jungles, a small cafe and community lounge seating.
CRISP Farms
1117 Lizardi St., Lower 9th Ward
A specialty nursery and urban agriculture initiative dedicated to promoting sustainable agriculture and permaculture practices. Community Research into Subtropical Permaculture operates out of Gol Cheh Nursery and focuses on helping the local community cultivate resilient ecosystems.
Crown Community Garden
19 Marywood Ct., New Orleans East
A family-centric agricultural hub that combines sustainable food production with creative play with a focus on healing. Neighbors cultivate organic produce in custom raised beds, and an outdoor play structure, Banana Cabana, serves as a central hub and offers a safe, engaging spaced where local youth can connect with nature, build teamwork, and explore the outdoors in a creative community setting. Hosts a weekly Roots and Rythmn that offers a learning workshop and music.
Edgewood Heights Community Garden
2777 Sage St., Gentilly
A community-driven green space focused on fostering community spirit, neighborhood beautification, and local resilience. Managed by volunteers and supported by the New Orleans Neighborhood Engagement Office through initiatives like Neighborhood Cares Initiative, the garden provides a welcoming environment where neighbors come together to plant colorful flowers, grow seasonal crops, and collaborate on neighborhood cleanup and restoration days to uplift the local neighborhood.
Faubourg St. John Community Garden
1001 N.Dupre St.,
A vibrant, tucked away, community-run green space. Collectively tended by neighborhood volunteers, the garden serves as an agricultural and social anchor where residents gather to grow healthy, seasonal produce. Beyond farming, the space promotes sustainable urban living by hosting hands-on workshops, community seed exchanges, and neighborhood composting programs.
First Grace United Methodist Church Community Garden
3401 Canal St., Mid-City
A vibrant neighborhood green space that embodies the church's deep commitment to hospitality, social justice, and community care. Tucked into their historic Mid-City campus, the garden serves as a peaceful urban oasis where local residents can lease individual plots or volunteer to maintain shared beds. Operating alongside the church's extensive outreach initiatives, the garden fosters neighborhood resilience, connects community members to the earth, and expands access to fresh, locally grown produce.
Fleur d'Eden
2111 Baronne St., Central City
A 9,000 sq ft urban oasis founded in 2003, that beautifully blends sustainable farming with visual artistry. This organic, raised-bed garden transformed a once vacant lot into a paradise of over 300 resilient rosebushes, African-native flora, and fresh herbs, proudly supplying top local chefs and sustainable florists. Fleur d'Eden is introducing its newest venture: exclusive designer chicken breeding. In harmony with lush flora, Fleur d'Eden carefully breeds these rare, ornamental birds as "living bouquets" for their striking plumage, docile temperaments, and gorgeous custom-colored eggs.
Freedom to Grow
2600 Andry St., Lower 9th Ward
An abolitionist-driven initiative that operates at the powerful intersection of art, land-based healing justice and community empowerment. Freedom to Grow uses the restorative act of gardening to imagine a landscape without prisons. Through creative expression, community herbalism, and archival storytelling, they provide a space to honor justice leaders, preserve their legacies and cultivate an equitable, reimagined future.
Frenchmen St. Community Garden
1201 Frenchmen St./ 2107 Marais St., 7th Ward
A vital neighborhood green space that has served the community since before Hurricane Katrina. It functions as an intergenerational hub where local volunteers grow fresh, organic food and implement urban stormwater managment. Recently, the garden became the focus of intense local advocacy after being threatened by a property sale.
Galvez Garden
2317 N. Galvez St., St. Roch
An Award-winning USDA People's Garden and dynamic micro-farm with an organic vegetable patch, a community greenhouse, native plant initiatives, and friendly small livestock like chickens and rabbits. Offers weekly community composting, can recycling collection, hands-on agricultural workshops and an Artist-in-Residency program.
Garden & Grace
312 W. Robert E. Lee Blvd., Lakeview
A neighborhood farm, community garden and botanical shop dedicated to cultivating fresh food, vibrant flowers and deep community connections. The space acts as a local educational hub, hosting volunteer days, seasonal pop-ups and hands-on workshops that range from blending traditional teas to hosting interactive farm tours and mocktail tastings. Visitors can enjoy a shaded farm porch, tour the farm, enjoy the pollinator garden, feed the fish, and meet Honey Bun, the farm rabbit.
Garden of the 21st Century
2640 Lamanche St., Lower 9th Ward
An innovative public green space and ecological experiment. The project has transformed five contiguous residential lots left vacant since Hurricane Katrina into a thriving 3,300 sq ft Miyawaki micro-forest. By densely planting dozens of hyper-local, climate-resilient native tree species (such as bald cypress, live oak, and tupelo) in deeply nourished soil, the garden accelerates forest maturation from centuries to mere decades. This open-to-the-public haven serves as a vital neighborhood anchor, engineered specifically to absorb storm water, combat the urban heat island effect, and pioneer new methods of urban reforestation amid coastal vulnerability.
Garden on Marais
1521 Poland Ave., Upper 9th Ward
A community agricultural and educational space established in 2010 as a branch of Elan Ministries and run jointly by Elan Ministries and the St. Luke's Assembly of God Congregation. This 100% volunteer-run space is dedicated to cultivating community and fresh, nutrient-rich foods. Home to a host of farm animals, including chickens, goats and their newest family member, Nissi the piglet.
Genesis Farmers Market
2618 Willow St., Central City
A collective market featuring long-time small farmers like Know Dat Grow Dat . . .
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Gloria's Garden
1320 Forstall St., Lower 9th Ward
A Black-led community oasis and youth empowerment hub. This beautiful gathering space serves as a sanctuary for the neighborhood, blending urban agriculture with grassroots arts, culture, and community wellness. Through its non-profit arm, Developing Young Entrepreneurs, (DYE), the garden acts as a living classroom, teaching local youth vital life skills ranging from gardening and cooking to sewing, music, and entrepreneurial training. More than just a place to grow fresh vegetables and herbs, its a bustling cultural venue hosting farmers markets, live jazz and blues sessions, yoga classes, and outdoor movie nights.
Grow Dat Youth Farm
105 Zachary Taylor Dr., City Park
Hollygrove Community Garden & Peace by Piece
9000 Oleander St., Hollygrove
A vibrant, youth-led urban agriculture initiative dedicated to food sovereignty and community healing. This community-driven oasis transforms vacant lots into thriving green spaces. Through organic produce gardens, urban farming education, regular free food shares, a solar-powered community fridge, and youth mentorship, Peace by Piece empowers the next generation of local leaders while ensuring fresh, organic produce is accessible to all.
Hollygrove-Dixon Community Garden
8606 Marks St./4206 Eagle St., Hollygrove-Dixon
A vital network of neighborhood green spaces --including the Eagle Street Garden of Hope and Health and the Marks Street Children's Garden--dedicated to combating food deserts through community-driven agriculture. The gardens integrate sustainable practices like neighborhood composting, worm farming, and companion planting. They lead the Water Wise Hollygrove-Dixon initiative, a grassroots partnership implementing nature-based green infrastructure. By installing rain gardens, permeable pavements, and planting dozens of native trees, they absorb thousands of gallons of storm water while cultivating fresh produce and fostering youth mentorship.
Imagination Farm
2718 Painters St., St Roch
A Two-Spirit, Creole Indigenous-led farm, a sacred intergenerational space, and the physical home of the climate justice organization Imagine Water Works. The farm operates as a living laboratory and community mutual aid hub. It is a place where those most impacted by climate change come together to practice hands-on land stewardship, disaster readiness, and traditional life-ways. Rooted in experimentation, education, and colaboration, The Imagination Farm actively feeds both the stomach and the spirit while colectively reimagining our future.
Imbue Farm
Algiers
Mellow Meadow on Josephine
2829 Josephine St., Central City
An informal grass-roots neighborhood garden space. Volunteers ages 18 and above with prior gardening experience welcome. Visitors welcome between sunrise and sunset (under 14 years old must be supervised by an adult).
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Milo Garden
553 1/2, Brooklyn Ave., Jefferson
A premiere licensed nursery, landscaping and irrigation small business, specializing in transforming spaces across the community. They carry an extensive, vibrant selection of tropical fruit trees, rare plants, edible greenery and classic houseplants, as well as provide custom landscape instillation and irrigation services for homes and businesses.
Montegut Sycamore Mutual Aid Farm
1835 Montegut St., Upper 9th Ward
Montegut Sycamore Mutual Aid Farm is a volunteer-run, production-oriented community garden, focused on building healthy soil and growing as many vegetables as possible for free or donation-based distribution among our neighbors. They garden in collaboration with Land Back Gardens, located directly next door and have a greenhouse, a robust composting system, a chicken coop, and a community fridge.
Native Plant Nursery
1501 Jourdan Ave., Lower 9th Ward
A half-acre conservation site established in 2009 by the environmental non-profit Common Ground Relief, this community-driven nursery is dedicated to fighting coastal land loss by cultivating the essential plant life needed to restore and stabilize Louisiana's fragile wetlands. The nursery features a public shady courtyard with picnic tables, wheel-chair accessible pathways and water fountain & bottle filler. The site hosts hundreds of local and out-of-state students each year, providing hands-on experiential education about critical causes and solutions to coastal erosion.
Okra Abbey
1800 Monroe St., Pigeon Town, Uptown
An urban farm, community garden and mutual aid hub that combines sustainable agriculture with social outreach to offer rest, refuge and shared abundance. Driven by a mission to cultivate deep neighborhood roots, they provide vital food security through a home delivery program, a free pantry, and a free, weekly community meal open to all.
Paradigm Gardens
1131 S. Rampart St., Central City
An intimate, hidden oasis that combines an active urban farm with a vibrant event space featuring a wood-fired oven, custom grill, and eclectic, lush atmosphere. Known for hosting popular concerts, chef-led dinners, and private gatherings, it offers a magical setting where community, fresh food and great music naturally intersect.
Pelican Garden
300 Wagner St., Algiers
An agricultural initiative and cooperative community space rooted in the principles of mutual aid, community-building and alternative economic frameworks. Pelican Garden provides the community with organic produce, regional seed banking, farm-to-table benefit brunches, a solar-powered community fridge and clothing swaps to strengthen neighbor relationships and resilience.
Recirculating Farms
1924 Jackson Ave., Central City
Dedicated to building eco-friendly, hyper-local food systems by utilizing innovative farming methods like hydroponics, aquaponics and sustainable soil-based agriculture and transforming urban spaces into vibrant, productive green zones. Their community-driven farms grow fresh, affordable food, provide hands-on green jobs training and champion food justice through advocacy and education.
River Queen Greens
10801 River Rd., Algiers
A queer- and woman-owned farm located on a 88-acre historic property in Lower Coastal Algiers, the farm utilizes the high fertility, river-fed soils situated just across the levee from the Mississippi River. River Queen Greens operates under strict Certified Naturally Grown standards, producing high-quality, nutrient-dense seasonal vegetables --including salad greens, root crops, microgreens, and fresh herbs. They also have chickens and cows on site. Deeply committed to equity and sustainable land stewardship, they supply premier New Orleans restaurants and local farmers markets, and expand fresh food access by offering a customizable Farm Share subscription program and accepts SNAP/EBT at 50% discount.
Robertson Royal Farmland
4659 Laine Ave., New Orleans East
A Black- and woman-owned urban farming operation dedicated to transforming local food systems, the farm produces a vibrant selection of fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, and cut flowers. The initiative focuses on community-driven growth and sustainable urban agriculture by transforming vacant urban spaces and supplies the New Orleans East community with nutrient-rich, freshly harvested food and beautiful floral arrangements.
Rude Becky Farm
801 Rosedale Dr., Midcity
A 3,000 sq ft micro-farm dedicated to bringing bold flavors and fresh blooms to the community. Established in 2024, this passion project transforms a compact urban space into a thriving oasis of namesake Rudbeckia flowers and punchy hot peppers-including fiery Fatalis and Bahamian Goats. Driven by sustainable, low-waste growing practices, Rude Becky Farms is all about keeping it local, raw, and delightfully simple. Rude Becky participates in the Sprout Truck Farm Table and offers occasional CSA sales via community listserv.
Schmelly's
8301 Olive St., Hollygrove
A premier organics recycling company that turns commercial food waste into high-quality, nutrient-rich soil. Schmelly's operates a full-service compost pickup and delivery business, closing the loop on food waste by collecting scraps from local kitchens, major universities like Tulane, and large-scale festivals. Over the last decade, they have diverted more than 7 million pounds of organic wast from landfills. Local green thumbs can pick up or order their signiture "supernatural" compost and garden soils directly from their headquarters.
Speakeasy Farm
1214 France St., Upper 9th Ward
A 1/4 acre biodiverse urban oasis operating as a collaborative community sanctuary, this local farm grows fresh food, herbal medicine, and a florishing habitat. Instead of treating nature as a commodity, Speak Easy Farm operates on a free-sharing economy where community members can gather, tend to the land, and harvest medicine and plants without payment. A living classroom offering specialized community workshops, from herbal medicine courses to hands-on ceramics and rainwater catchment training.
Sprout NOLA
Lafitte Greenway, located between N. Dorgenois & Rocheblave on the Greenway
Dedicated to making urban farming and sustainable agriculture accessible to everyone. Sprout bridges the gap between growers and the community by providing critical technical, financial, and social support to small-scale farmers, community gardens, and farm workers across Louisiana. Manages initiatives like "Volunteer for Veggies”, where volunteers can expand their knowledge, meet new friends, harvest food, and receive farmers’ market tokens on Thursdays; beginner farmer learning cohorts; a tool lending library; and the Truck Farm Table marketing cooperative. By driving local grassroots policy, coordinating state food assistance programs, and cultivating thriving community spaces, Sprout empowers residents to build a more equitable, resilient, and community-driven food system.
St Roch Community Garden
1904 St. Roch Ave, St. Roch
A vibrant, artist-led green space where "neighbors become family and soil becomes story". Dedicated to expanding food access, environmental education and sustainable agriculture, this collaborative hub features edible plants, native flora, and thriving pollinator habitats. Backed by powerful community expansions like a rooftop greenhouse, rainwater collection systems, and an outdoor community kitchen built in partnership with the New Orleans Pelicans, it is a bustling neighborhood oasis. Offering Wednesday evening garden sessions, hands-on workshops, live music, or fresh food pop-ups.
VEGGI Farmers Cooperative
14000 Dwyer Blvd., New Orleans East
Village de l'Est Green Growers Initiative is an urban farm in New Orleans East, rooted in cultural tradition and community resilience. Their network of growers utilizes 100% natural, "no-spray" methods to produce heirloom crops native to both Louisiana and South & Southeast Asian diaspora. VEGGI builds workforce opportunities for micro-enterprises while expanding equitable food access by championing cooperative economics. They offer CSA boxes and 1/2 cost food boxes to SNAP/EBT recipients. Find them at the Thursday and Sunday CCFM farmers markets and on their website. They also operate their own New Orleans East mobile market.