Visit Your Urban Roots

Open seven days a week
in the Spring and Summer seasons
10am-7pm Monday-Friday
9am-7pm Saturday
9am-5pm Sunday

The latest dirt

We are looking for an experienced gardener to work in the store as a paid employee. He/she will work 3-4 days, approximately 15-20 hours a week. He/she will answer specific gardening questions and help identify pests and plants. If you are interested, please come by the store, call 362-8982, or email Michael.

Urban Roots. Where Buffalo Gardens
Urban Roots is a place to buy plants – flowers, shrubs, trees and vegetables – at a location you can drive or walk to in a few minutes. Community owned and operated. Open year round. Urban Roots Community Garden Center offers gardening tools, soil, mulch, plants, unusual varieties, organic products, gifts for gardeners, and workshops in your neighborhood. Urban Roots works with local growers and artisans in order to bring the area regional products and support our local economy as much as possible.

We closed on the two additional lots, adjacent to our existing yard, at 9:30 am on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008. We have just doubled the size of our outdoor space to 120×100 feet.

If you’d like to become an Urban Roots member-owner, check out this page: Membership Drive.

Your City. Your Store.
All within a few minutes of downtown Buffalo.

Urban Roots is a community owned, cooperative garden center. As of May 2008, we have 355 Member-Owners. We’re on Buffalo’s West Side, at 428 Rhode Island Street, located two blocks west of Left Bank.

Visit us soon to find out what we have for you.

We are offering a variety of workshops throughout the year. Check them out here.

Update on Urban Roots, November 2007

We are open in our lot next door to 428 Rhode Island Street, three blocks west of Richmond Avenue.

We closed on the building on Tuesday, May 15, 2007. We have moved into the storefront at 428 Rhode Island Street, in July we put in nice glass front. In October, our new tenant Gelato G’s is moving into our space next door. We’re still busy painting, scrubbing, and building.

We have moved our operations indoors for winter, and have more gift items for gardeners, green shoppers, and children and holiday decorations.

Back in November 2006, when the Urban Roots Board of Directors drew everything up on the to-do list, we anticipated opening the doors to the store the last weekend in March 2007 and we hoped we’d do it with 100 member-owners.

To be perfectly honest, we thought the 100 member-owner goal before our doors were opened was, well, a stretch.

We’re thrilled and overwhelmed to report that in November, we have over 314 member-owners. We know there is a strong need and desire for this store, you have proven it, and we’re humbled by your notes of support, well wishes and those $100 checks.

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Volunteer Opportunities

Opportunities to get your hands dirty in the name of Buffalo beautification. We hope you will come out and help Urban Roots help our community with man power and know how. We have three sessions planned to prep community gardens for the season. Bring your shovel and gloves! (Everything is rain or shine.)

This year we worked in our own neighborhood on a community garden at 15th, Utica and Massachusetts, as well as helping to start garden beds around Olmsted 64 School, and working with the Kiibutz Natsiyr Outreach Corporation on their vegetable garden filled with unusual veggies from Urban Roots.

Learn more about past projects.

Email interest to volunteers@urbanroots.org or call 362-8982.

Volunteer

Urban Roots is looking to be an active and enriching member of the community, fostering a working relationship with the greater neighborhood in order to encourage beautification and urban renewal. As a commercial business, we also see an opportunity to connect the areas gardening experts with community groups and organizations who are looking for assistance with gardening and beautification efforts.

Urban Roots is building a network across the neighborhoods of Western New York in order to further revitalize the community we live in.

If you are interested in getting involved and volunteering for urban gardening and beautification projects in Buffalo, please download this form and email it to volunteers@urbanroots.org or mail it to Urban Roots.

If you have friends to share these opportunities with, please download this beautiful and colorful flyer, and email or post it, in order to help us get the word out! This is a large file, 3.1 MB.