The main aim of this work is to analyse how urban agriculture works, with an emphasis on community gardens, and to see if they are within the logic of the Solidarity Economy. The work also briefly discusses the definition of the concept of urban agriculture based on a theoretical foundation, defining the main advantages and disadvantages of the practice with a case study in Campinas. The specific objective was to understand the practices of self-management of resources at community level, analysing under the principles of solidarity and cooperation, how social and economic relations take place and how they requalify the meanings of work.