Photos: Community gardens of Madison
The summer harvest is at its peak. Community gardens serve as places where gardeners can grow their own food and find neighbors who share in their passion for the growing season.

Onions and bush beans grown in a plot at the Tamarack Trails Community Garden on the west side.

Sticks and shirts serve as scarecrows at the Rimrock/Green Community Garden, on the 300 block of Englehart Drive in Madison.

Monarch butterflies pollinate flowers at Tamarack Trails Community Garden.

Zinnias bring color to the Tamarack Trails Community Garden.

A goldfinch eats sunflower seeds at the Tamarack Trails Community Garden.

Kale grows in a plot at the Pheasant Hill Community Garden, on the property of St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church in Monona.

Tomatoes ripen on the vine at the Rimrock/Green Community Garden, on the 300 block of Englehart Drive.

Romaine lettuce covers a plot of the Tamarack Trails Community Garden, on the southwest corner of Tree Lane and Westfield Road on the west side.

A shared wheelbarrow is available for gardeners to use at the Atwood Community Garden, alongside the Capital City Trail.

The Crowley Station Community Garden sits atop the concrete platform that surrounds a city well in downtown Madison and is made up of garden boxes.

A basket of freshly harvested produce sits on the walking path between garden plots, at the Pheasant Hill Community Garden in Monona.

Monarch butterflies pollinate flowers at Tamarack Trails Community Garden.

Flags adorn the Rimrock/Green Community Garden, on the 300 block of Englehart Drive.

Rebecca Redmann harvests vegetables at the Pheasant Hill Community Garden, on the property of St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church in Monona.

Onions and bush beans grown in a plot at the Tamarack Trails Community Garden.

The Tamarack Trails Community Garden is made up of 49 10'x20' plots.

Cyclists ride past the Atwood Community Garden on the Capital City Trail.

110 garden plots are available at the Atwood Community Garden, alongside the Capital City Trail.

Tomatoes grow in garden boxes at the Crowley Station Community Garden, which is an urban garden, perched on top of the concrete platform of City Well Number 17.

Sunflowers grow tall at the Tamarack Trails Community Garden.

Michael Harter waters his garden plot at the Tamarack Trails Community Garden.

A Monarch butterfly pollinates cosmos at Tamarack Trails Community Garden.

Gates and fences keep hungry creatures out of the garden plots at the Tamarack Trails Community Garden.