Purpose:

- Community gardens provide fresh produce and plants as well as satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment.
- owned in trust by local governments or not for profit associations.
- Community gardens may help alleviate one effect of climate change, which is expected to cause a global decline in agricultural output, making fresh produce increasingly unaffordable.
- Community gardens encourage an urban community's food security, allowing citizens to grow their own food or for others to donate what they have grown.
- Advocates say locally grown food decreases a community's reliance on fossil fuels for transport of food from large agricultural areas and reduces a society's overall use of fossil fuels to drive in agricultural machinery.
-  Community gardens provide other social benefits, such as the sharing of food production knowledge with the wider community and safer living spaces.