Upcoming Events
Join us for hands-on urban agriculture activities—from planting and harvesting to cooking and crafting. Designed for kids and their caregivers, our events let you explore plants, learn how to use them, and enjoy the full journey from garden to table or craft.
Neighborhood Block Party for Historic Eastside Neighborhood
September 1st, 2025 | 2007 N Market St, Jacksonville, FL
Join Us for the Ribbon Cutting & Opening Celebration of the FunGardens!
Join us this Labor Day, Monday, September 1, 2025, for the Ribbon Cutting Block Party celebrating FunGardens—the neighborhood’s first agro-botanical play space!
Enjoy a day of play, learning, and community as we grow a greener, healthier future together.
Support Our FunGardens
Please contact us if you have any wishlist items that you would like to donate. Or please make a tax deductible monetary donation.
About Us
First Coast Urban Ag is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the power of agriculturally immersive playgrounds to the urban core. Empowering children and families with knowledge of the natural world and the story of food simply by coming to play.
Through our programs and workshops, we strive to foster a sense of community and connection between the environment and the people that live within it.
We use and teach Regenerative Organic land management practices.
Hours of Operation
Tuesday – Friday afternoon 2pm-7pm
Saturday Mornings 8am-12pm
Rangers on Duty:
Tuesdays and Thursdays
Tuesdays and Thursdays
You must sign the Agreements before having use of the FunGardens!
Our Board
Our FunGardens
Reconnect with Nature and Grow a Healthier Environment
FunGardens is a welcoming outdoor “third space” between work and home—a mix of botanical garden, lounge, discovery zone, and resource hub. It’s not a community garden, but a vibrant public space for play, learning, and connection.
Relax under a tree, work outdoors, watch wildlife, or let kids explore, climb, dig, and play. There’s something for everyone to enjoy. One parent put it best:
“As long as they are outside, I know they are learning.”
This is “wild recess” — a safe, immersive, and joyful place to be outdoors, together.
I don’t exist without you and you don’t exist without me. Therefore, you and I exist from relating, we exist from “us”.
We are creating a living outdoor space in which community can exist!
Seasonal herbs, fruit, and berries
We’re redefining how human communities coexist with plant and animal systems. What does placemaking look like in this context — and how can agro-botanical parks become integral parts of our neighborhoods?
Ethical Values
As part of the signed park agreement, we ask all visitors to uphold the ethical values of Character Counts and reflect on the guiding questions of the Honorable Harvest.
Homeschool Network
We host homeschool groups please inquire to make an appointment!
Our Partners
Thank you for your continued support to the vision of FCUAs FunGardens.
A Special Thank You To
Resources
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
Learning with Nature: A how-to guide to inspiring children through outdoor games and activities by Marina Robb, Victoria Mew, and Anna Ricardson
Contact Us
Join us in connecting young hearts, hands, and minds to nature within the urban core. Together, we can create a healthier and more equitable world.
