Our Legacy

Honoring Don and Betty Fields, Fields Market Garden pays homage to the couple’s 60 years as community activists who reached some of the most under-served in Hamilton County. They helped usher Carmel from township to city status and made their home continually available to all.

Fields Market Garden models their work by encouraging engagement with our neighbors, cultivating connections with people and the earth, and seeing community grow. We’re excited to join hands with those who want to contribute to the garden’s mission of connection and engagement.

Our Mission

Our mission is to cultivate a thriving and inclusive urban garden that nourishes the community through food and beauty. We grow high-quality produce, foster employment opportunities for our nearby neighbors at North End with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and provide fresh, locally sourced ingredients to area residents and businesses.

Our Growing Practices

Set on over 5 acres with 1.4 acres for the garden itself, we are thrilled with our opportunity to keep growing in support of our community. Although we are not certified organic, we choose to use organic growing practices to grow nutrient dense vegetables and beautiful fresh flowers. We choose to take a no-till approach in the garden as we are striving to create a healthy, living soil ecosystem. It all starts in the soil. If we can achieve a balanced, living healthy soil, then we can grow healthy plants to produce healthy food and flowers and to nurture our community.