This is one of Boston's many community gardens. Located in the South End on the corner of East Berkeley Street and Tremont Street, the Berkeley Community Gardens offer about 150 garden plots. Any Bostonian can be a part of the garden, and plots are assigned through a lottery during the fall cleanup every year. This is not a free program, however, because as many people know, it costs money to keep the common areas of a shared garden clean and picked up. The garden offers bi-weekly group clean ups, which allows time for fellow gardeners to network and come together as a community. The garden was started after the urban renewal movement in the 80's, and was previously a row of brick houses (similar to the rest of the South End). This garden is part of the South End Lower Roxbury Open Space Land Preservation Trust.

The Cedar Street Urban Wild is surrounded by residential housing on two sides and by community gardens on two sides. A pathway winds through the wild linking the Allan Crite Garden on Cedar Street to the Highland Center Garden on Linwood Street. Both gardens are managed by the Boston Natural Areas Network. A gate provides direct access to the urban wild from the abutting residential development. The wild can also be accessed from either community garden. A portion of the urban wild has been cultivated with perennial flowers and fruiting trees including hazelnut and apple. The most notable of feature of the urban wild is a large puddingstone outcrop located in the western portion of the property. Invasive sycamore maple and Norway maple dominate the site creating a shade so dense that little other than garlic mustard and mugwort survive in the understory. As a result, groundcover is sparse. A few pine oaks have survived near the rock outcrop.

Between Lenox and Melnea Cass