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Fresh Oasis Community Garden

Fresh Oasis Community Garden at the ArtsXchange is an inviting space where individuals, families, and groups can grow produce for themselves as well as provide educational classes and volunteer opportunities. With support from East Point Grown and Food Well Alliance, we are planting for our future to raise awareness of sustainability and healthy living through gardening.

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GARDEN GOALS

Expand Urban Agriculture

Expand Urban Agriculture

Fresh Oasis Community Garden was established in 2020 and is part of East Point's City Agriculture Plan to prioritize urban farming and equitable access to healthy foods. The city's largest community garden, we are also a USDA's People's Garden.

Promote Wellness

Promote Wellness

The benefits of gardening are endless. Through your garden here, you can experience improved nutrition, exercise, strengthened emotional health, community identity, a restored environment, enhanced education, and land enrichment.

Grow Your Own Food

Grow Your Own Food

The initial costs for garden bed is $80 per 6' x 3' bed for the first year, with a $50 annual renewal feeThe cost includes compost and irrigation. We also offer various gardening classes!

ABOUT GARDEN BEDS

Benefits to having a garden bed with FOCG include:

  • Free soil and seeds

  • Free access to our Garden Like a Boss workshops taught by garden manager, tenisio seanima

  • Special opportunities offered by ASC Fresh Oasis Community garden


The initial costs for garden bed:

  • $80 per 6' x 3' bed for the first year, with a $50 annual renewal fee


East Point residents are eligible for a FREE garden bed!


Thanks to a neighborhood grant from the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, the ArtsXchange is offering East Point residents the opportunity to apply for a FREE bed in our garden.

GARDEN BED APPLICATION

Apply for a garden bed today! Please complete all fields in this form. 


Please limit applications to one per household. Before submitting application make sure to review the Garden Rules and Regulations and the Garden Waiver Form. Applications are not a guarantee for a bed. Bed acceptance letters will be issued within two weeks of receiving the application.

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Thanks for your interest! We will be in touch. Please remember applications are not a guarantee for a plot. Plot acceptance letters will be issued withing two weeks of receiving the application. Thank you for applying.

ArtsXchange SouthEast Community Cultural Center
tenisio seanima

Fresh Oasis Garden Manager & Just Green Accelerator Liaison

tenisio seanima, the inaugural Urban Agriculture Manager for East Point, GA possesses an unwavering passion for creating positive change, which earned him the reputation as a service-driven leader across the Southeastern United States. During the past two decades, he has cultivated extensive experience in the arena of cooperative development, food policy, agricultural sales, leadership, mass media, and social activism.

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