Durham Garden Resources
Look no further for free/ low cost garden resources to support your school garden endeavors. This is a living site, so please let us know if we are missing any hidden gems in the greater Durham area!
PLANNING
SEEDS & STARTS
DPS Hub Farm has Community Plant giveaways three times a year. Join their e-mail list to be able to reserve plant starts beyond what is available to the public.
Durham Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners have a yearly plant sale in April. The day before the sale, they will also have a plant festival where attendees will be able to take home a free plant!
Keep up-to-date on their website, here.
Digging Durham Seed Library offers vegetable, herb, and flower seeds that you can take home and plant! If you grow seeds, feel free to donate them back to the library to keep the giving going.
Available at: Main Library, East Regional, North Regional, South Regional, Southwest Regional, Bragtown, and Standford L. Warren
SOIL HEALTH
COMPOST NOW
Sign up to be a Compost Now Garden Partner and get low cost compost delivered to your school. All you have to do is pay the delivery fee whenever you need more compost! Have community members sign-up to donate their compost to DPS Schools.
NC COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
Soil Samples in North Carolina can be tested at NO COST between April and November, a peak season fee of $4.00 per sample is charged December 1 through March 31st.
Sample boxes and forms are available at the Durham County Cooperative Extension Office (721 Foster St.)
Click here for more information,
TOOLS & MATERIALS
Keep Durham Beautiful has a free tool lending library for community groups looking to have a beautification or community clean-up event.
Register your request at least one week in advance, and return within one week of the event!
Fill out the request form, here.
DURHAM WOODYARD
The Durham Woodyard is a City of Durham owned property where the Urban Foresty division places removed trees for the propose of allowing Durham residents access. Durham residents access the resources at their own efforts and risk.
Residents must read and submit the Durham Woodyard Terms of Use to the Durham General Services Department in order to recieve a code of the property. Residents are also responsible for cutting and removing the wood themselves. For FAQs, click here.
This is a FREE resource to Durham Residents.
Chipdrop and Leaf & Limb helps connect Arborists to Gardeners. Both companies give gardeners a free resource for wood chip mulch without cutting down new trees.
ChipDrop and Leaf&Limb Wood Chips are FREE.
FOOD
INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE
Find fresh, healthy food near you through mobile markets and food pantries.