Annual Open House at the Arvada Community Garden 2026

Event Info

The Arvada Community Garden is celebrating their 59th year of service to the Arvada

community. They will be holding their 31st Annual Open House on Saturday August 15th from

11:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M. at the Community Garden.

Schedule:

11:00 a.m. Opening and first garden tour begins and then about every 30 minutes

11:30 a.m. First door prize drawing and then about every 30 - 45 minutes

12:00 p.m. Lunch will be served.

1:30 p.m. Final door prizes, put-n-take table, ballots and tours

This year’s gardeners will be bringing in their favorite dish made from items grown in their

gardens to share with the public. The PUT-N-TAKE Table will be open – you bring something

from your garden to PUT on the table and/or then TAKE something that someone else has left.

The garden will supply drinks, hot dogs and brats, corn-on-the-cob, tours of the community

garden, and advice on gardening in Arvada’s climate. There will be a contest to select the best

looking garden plot for the Gold, Silver, Bronze and New Gardener Shovel Awards. Local

merchants have donated items to be given out as gate (door) prizes and there will be free gifts

for the kids, a scavenger hunt and if you can answer a gardening question you will receive free

vegetable and flower seeds from the seed library and/or free herb or flower plants grown in the

greenhouse.

Arvada Community Gardener’s Annual Open House will be held on August 15th at the community

garden at 57th and Garrison from 11am to 2pm. Free lunch, door prizes, kids gifts, seeds and

plants, scavenger hunt, garden tours, gardening advice, Put-n-Take table.

Questions? More info? Reach out to Bill Orchard at billorchard@juno.com