The River City Garden is an urban community garden and sustainability education site located at 59 N. Front Street in Hudson, NY. Come visit us!

COVID Update

The River City Garden is open! We have taken significant measures to enable safe operations during the pandemic: we have increased staff hours to ensure that physical distancing measures are observed, set up new infrastructure for hand-washing and provided protective supplies to gardeners, and built new raised beds so that more food can be grown.

Community Food Security

The River City Garden is an intergenerational and multicultural public garden. Since its launch in 2014, the garden has become a vital community resource for low-income and immigrant families to grow their own food. The garden brings together an intergenerational community of neighbors as partners in the movement for community food security. Support and signage provided in Bengali and English. We also support low-income families to grow food at home, providing stoop/window and backyard garden boxes.

Outdoor Education for Kids & Teens 

At its heart, the River City Garden is an outdoor and community-based classroom. Since 2014, we have run a weekly after school garden program called the Roots & Rebels Garden Club, in partnership with the Hudson Department of Youth and the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood. This popular after school space creatively engages young people in the skills and methods of growing food, in thinking critically about the impact of global food systems on our communities, and in stepping up as leaders in the development of local food systems. The garden club serves youth of all ages, including children ages 5-14 and teen assistants, ages 15-18.

Environmental Justice Youth Leadership

Kite’s Nest ReGen Teens (ages 16-19) work afterschool and throughout the summer as urban gardeners, sustainability educators, and as green business entrepreneurs. The ReGen Teens have designed and launched a community compost program at the garden. Learn more or sign up! The ReGen Teens are working to launch a Greenhouse Project, a food justice initiative and community greenhouse business to be co-run and staffed by teens. 

Get in Touch!

We sometimes host public community work days, meals, and garden events. To get involved in the River City Garden, email hello@kitesnest.org. Or, stop by and see what we’re up to!