The TJMS Community Garden 2026 Season is Under Way.
The TJMS Community Garden has been a Plot Against Hunger participant for over a decade, donating produce to AFAC and other local food pantries. The Jefferson Community Garden is the largest school garden in Arlington, and we are taking our community responsibilities seriously. But more than that, we are working to become a hub for joyful community and learning. Have you ever thought of starting your own garden, but you feel a little overwhelmed? Volunteering with our experienced gardeners is a great way to learn more about starting a garden, managing pests and diseases, and how to plan for seasonal harvests. A sunny Saturday morning in the garden is a great family activity, and it's the perfect place to meet friends to socialize while volunteering and getting a bit of fresh air and exercise.
Bring Friends or Family and Join Us in the Garden:
We would love you to join us in the garden. We have regular garden workdays every week from 10 AM to noon Saturday mornings. Not quite ready to start gardening today? Sign up for our newsletter and we'll send you weekly updates about our workday plans, and pictures of what we're doing in the garden.
Stay tuned to our Facebook page for late-breaking schedule updates and weather cancellations.
Garden videos:
Thomas Jefferson Middle School Community Garden
This organic garden is a demonstration and education project for TJMS and the Arlington Food Assistance Center
The last day of Garden Club, with the vines being ...
Bees on sunflowers at the volunteer garden workday...
Milkweed pods, fluff and milkweed bugs in the poll...
We are planning a hugelkultur mound, and collectin...
A tour of our sugar snap peas and strawberries, ou...
A tour of our dry riverbed and surrounding plantin...
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Workdays on Saturdays 10AM-noon
Join us in the garden from 10-noon tomorrow, Saturday, May 9, for our community garden workday. #workday
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Last week in the pollinator garden, we had several middle school students join our Master Naturalist and adult volunteers to weed and care for our native plants. ... See MoreSee Less
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Join us in the garden from 10-noon tomorrow, Saturday, May 9, for our community garden workday. #workday ... See MoreSee Less
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Back to our roots (no pun intended) with Girl Scouts in the garden. Our garden was originally a Silver Award project, and we were so happy to welcome scouts from TJ and Fleet to the garden last week to plant flower seeds and basil, weed, and harvest. ... See MoreSee Less
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Photos from the past couple of weeks in the TJMS Community Garden: harvesting spring crops of radishes and spinach, and planting summer crops of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. ... See MoreSee Less
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Saturday’s workday led to our first donation to @afacfeeds for the 2026 gardening season. We harvested, washed, and packed our spinach and radishes before sending them off to AFAC. We can’t wait to send them more! (Next up: more radishes and lettuce.) ... See MoreSee Less
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Join us Saturday 10-noon for another garden #workday. ... See MoreSee Less
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Thanks to our volunteers for a hugely productive workday on Saturday. We got all of our new vegetable seedlings into the ground, many flowers/seeds planted, and some mulching and weeding as well. Join us this Saturday 10-noon for more fun in the garden. ... See MoreSee Less
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Radish tasting at garden club. (On my quest to turn this generation into GenX armed with one garden hose at a time.) ... See MoreSee Less
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Elderberry: a vigorous native shrub that we will be giving away at our pollinator garden workday on Saturday 10-noon. These are enthusiastic spreaders and a great food source for birds. Used as a traditional medicinal or food. #workday ... See MoreSee Less
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