Shakespeare Gardens – Alabama Shakespeare Festival

The Shakespeare Gardens, located in the Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park, is a secluded 56,700 square foot garden complex, adjacent to the Carolyn Blount Theatre, home of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.  It includes various plants and Elizabethan herbs mentioned in William Shakespeare’s poems and plays.  Capital City Master Gardeners learn as they help to maintain this garden on Wednesdays.

Rose-Morris House – Old Alabama Town

The Capital City Master Gardeners designed and created a beautifully landscaped garden to complement the Rose-Morris House in the Old Alabama Town historic complex in downtown Montgomery. Our members maintain the garden year round for tourists and local citizens to enjoy through the seasons.

Lilly’s Garden – Forest Avenue Magnet School

This garden was created and dedicated to honor memory of former student, Lilly Thompson, who passed away while a student at the school. It was established in 1997 on the corner of Fifth Street and Pineleaf Drive on the school grounds of the Forest Avenue Magnet School. The Capital City Master Gardeners help create and maintain this inspiring garden to honor this special young girl and teach students how grow vegetables and the basics of gardening. Classes for students with “hands on” activities educate them on a variety of gardening topics.

Montgomery Botanical Garden – Oak Park

The Capital City Master Gardener Association is a strong supporter of the Montgomery Botanical Gardens at Oak Park.  Our members routinely volunteer many hours by helping with flower bed preparations, maintenance and plantings of new trees, shrubs and flowers as well as serving on the MBG Board of Directors.  We are excited to see the extensive landscape plans become a reality.  The initial “Southern Garden” at the entrance to Oak Park is the first garden to be completed.  Future plans include a variety of other gardens and features.  You can honor someone special or a member of your family by donating to sponsor plants for future plantings or a carved oak bench or metal glider.

Montgomery Botanical Gardens Volunteer Day is the third Tuesday of each month, 9:00 am – noon.

For More information and History of Oak Park, CLICK HERE

E.A.T. South – Montgomery’s Urban Farm

EAT South is an urban teaching farm that engages our local community by gathering around, learning about and growing food. They empower people to change the way food travels from the ground to our plates.

It was started in 2012 and has grown to include a greenhouse, more than 2000 square feet of vegetable production space, fruit trees, a large apiary, rabbitry and chicken coop. In a non-covid year, close to 3000 children learn about plants and healthy eating through field trips, after school programs and summer camps. Hundreds of adults participate in workshops, seed swaps, and volunteer projects. E.A.T. South grows all of its own transplants and donates hundreds of plants to community gardens as well as to the Master Gardener’s plant sale.

EAT South provides hands-on experiences that give the community actionable lessons that they can apply to their own lifestyles. The farm engages visitors through all five senses, encouraging education through immersion and practice. They encourage access to knowledge on the local food system, farm bills and other government oversight so that citizens can effectively engage in the policies that dictate the food that we consume every day, combat food insecurity and encourage individual sustainability. 

Master Gardeners have donated hundreds of hours primarily to educating children but also maintaining the garden and building wheelchair accessible garden beds.

Located at 485 Molton Street, Montgomery, AL 36104, behind the Montgomery Advertiser and Bus Station.

EAT South Volunteer/Work Day is the second Tuesday of each month, 10:00 am – noon. (Time subject to change with weather conditions)