EcoGarden After-Work-Day Gardening

Come decompress after work on Wednesdays! Help us with planting, watering, weeding, mulching, composting, & maintaining the guilds of our beautiful EcoGarden, a permaculture orchard located next to the Day-Riverside Library.

We will have tools or you can bring your own. It's a great way to volunteer and connect with our great community! FREE and open to the public to join us - just show up! 

Every Wednesday, 5pm - 6:30pm. Located just south of the Day-Riverside Library Branch, You can use the library parking lot for parking!

Have you ever heard of permaculture? 

One of the main principles of permaculture is to create an ecosystem that blends or mimics natural ecosystems to provide food and medicine. This way our gardens can look good, but also be useful while not requiring much maintenance, because these ecosystems are great at maintaining themselves. The mix and selection of plants in permaculture gardens have multiple different functions to help out in a variety of ways. Where some plants will help put nitrogen back into the soil, others will attract pollinators, and/or discourage pests.

At the EcoGarden, we put these ideas into practice!

We currently have apple, pear, plum, peach, cherry, nectarine, grape, golden currant, chokecherry, various perennial herbs, and more planted in our garden. In 2026, we are adding pecans, fuyu persimmon, paw paw, bush cherries, black currant, pomegranate, and mulberry!

TreeUtah is funded in part by the residents of Salt Lake County through the Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP) Program. Learn more at www.zapisyou.org.