The trend of community gardens and urban agriculture has recently emerged in Prague. It could be seen as a growing urban farming movement in the post-communist country. Contemporary projects do not follow tradition of urban and peri-urban private gardening and the motives and intensions of actors are various. The main objective of this poster is to address the question, whether it is a beginning of significant community development or just temporary fashion of particular social group(s). The work is based on 1) interviews with local actors 2) local survey and 3) several case studies comparison. The qualitative data are analyzed and the importance of this issue for urban communities and planning is discussed.