Wasatch Community Gardens’ Campus, located at 629 E 800 S in the heart of Salt Lake City, is open from dawn to dusk when programming isn’t active in the gardens. We welcome you to come explore the gardens, see what’s growing throughout the year, and enjoy a moment of peaceful reflection in nature.
If you would like a guided tour with one of our garden educators, we offer paid tours of our campus where you’ll learn about urban organic gardening, as well as valuable tips for growing, harvesting, and eating healthy organic food.
WCG’s Campus is where we host our annual Tomato Sandwich Party (LINK) as well as our Love Local Winter Market (LINK) and where many of our Adult Education workshops and Youth Summer Camps take place. We also offer our Education Cottage event space for community events hosted by partner organizations.
Public Pick
All of the produce grown on our campus is used in our community programming so we ask that you do not harvest anything within the fence. The Public Pick beds outside of the fence perimeter, however, are grown for the public to enjoy and can be harvested for FREE! Think of these areas as a living vegetable pantry.
Campus Features
WCG’s Campus features uniquely designed demonstration and teaching gardens, indoor teaching spaces, an artisanal well, commercial and outdoor kitchen spaces, and signage to educate community members about organic gardening. It embodies historic preservation and adaptive reuse, conservation of thriving open space in the heart of the Central City neighborhood, eight micro-units of affordable housing that achieves net zero energy use, and new and improved spaces where we can educate, collaborate, inspire, and welcome all in the community to grow, eat, and prepare fresh, healthy, delicious food.
Campus History
In the fall of 2021, we completed construction on the new Wasatch Community Gardens' Campus – a multi-year project that transformed a 1.2-acre property at 629 E 800 S in Salt Lake City into a community resource dedicated to urban agriculture, community building, education, and stewardship.
The project began in 2017 with the purchase of three parcels of land adjacent to our flagship Grateful Tomato Garden. We were granted a necessary zone change in December of 2018; as part of the approval, we were required to build replacement housing for the three residences that we were converting to commercial use. The resulting $6.2 million project became much larger than we had originally envisioned and offered tremendous opportunities for our organization.
