Gombe State Rural Development Council Garden is a stunning example of the successful developmental projects of the Authority. Its vibrant, exotic and flourishing planting scheme makes it one of the most remarkable and distinctive gardens that can compete with any garden in the world. It truly owns a spectacular place in the list of impressive gardens in Nigeria with awesome landscape, bright pockets of flowers, deep green plantations and an orchard that contains allure and a variety of fruits and vegetables.

Established in 1977, the garden extends over nearly 10 hectares of lands that ranks among the largest collection of living plants in Nigeria. Its fruit trees and exotic flowers are interspersed with orchards and plantations by ample diversity of fruits such as Citrus, mango and palm tree that have established great reputation for fruiting excellence on the garden with their unique quality of early maturity, high yield, true to type, adaptation to various climate changes and resistance to diseases and drugs.

There are adorable things about this fascinating garden where numerous species of citrus that include sweet Oranges, Lemons, Limes, Grapefruit, Tangerine and related fruit together with variety of Mango plantations ranging from Mummy, Zeal, Ogbomosho, Peter, Juli among others reveal a succession of distinctive fruits that made up the beautiful scenery of the garden. For instance, a particular specie of a sweet Orange is capable of producing an average of 5000 orange fruits per stand while a particular specie of Mango is capable of producing up to hundred fruits, weighing between 5-10 kilogram per fruit and the Palm plantation at maturity is also expected to produce over 500 drums (25ltrs) of red oil.

This popular garden not only boast of an age long orchard where assorted fruits Such as Cashew, Mango, Oranges, Banana, Guava and other fruits that were planted since the setting up of the garden are conserved but also has a standby Weir constructed purposely to ensure the farms are nourished during the dry season. The Weir is also a house to thousands of fishes that are reared for commercial purposes under the supervision of the commercial arm of the Authority. Beside the orchard and the Weir is an array of varied vegetables ranging from Cucumber, Tomatoes, Garden egg, Spinach, Watermelon, and Carrot among others.

Obviously, Basin garden has contributed enormously to the economic and intellectual development of agrarian society in Nigeria. This is evident in the training and the services it rendered to the young agricultural entrepreneurs in form of multiplication of new seeds/ seedlings, identification of seed variety, improvement of quality/ quantity of plants and has since been a top destination for thousands of Agricultural and Botany students as well as researchers that often come for training and research/extension purposes from different tertiary institutions such as Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife,Federal University of Technology, Minna, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Bayero University, Kano, Uthmandanfodio University, Sokoto, Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho, Kwara State Unniversity, Molete, Kwara state Polytechnic, Ilorin and others.

The Authority, in its effort to maintain, enlarge, as well as upgrading the garden to a standard setting suitable for learning has persistently train and retrain the staff who oversee the general development of the garden. The idea is to be able to train more young entrepreneurs to contribute to the sustainable development of their communities by creating farming jobs and thus preventing unemployment and poverty by ensuring food self-sufficiency and contributing to the well-being of the people who will become more aware of the components of the products they consume and training other young people who are willing to work in the field, thereby contributing to the education of the youths in the society.

The Authority is also considering a long time plan of supplying fresh fruits from the garden to juice production companies and has not ruled out the possibility of setting up a fruit juice producing company of its own with sole aim of sourcing raw material from the garden to replicate its achievements in table water production.

Tourism which has emerged as one of the world major socio-economic sectors and has since become the world fastest growing industry has also been considered a lucrative venture and part of the strategic plans of the Authority. It is in this regard that Gombe State Rural Development Council is looking into developing the garden for the purpose of tourism. The tourism idea if actualised will emerge as one of the foremost tourist destinations in Nigeria and will also become a major source of revenue generation for the Authority.