The brainchild of Jenny Whiting, the project launched in October last year and has gone from strength to strength.
"I had the idea last year because I was looking to get an allotment," said Ms Whiting.
"It looked like it would be a very long waiting list and my cousin actually told me to see if there was a garden share scheme.
"Transition Dorking seemed the perfect place to find out."
At the time, Ms Whiting, now 66, was coming up to retirement and keen to start growing her own vegetables.
She wanted to draw on the power of the community to build the project and promote sustainable ways of producing food.
"It is really important to start building on self-sufficiency a lot more, I feel really passionately about that," she said.
"What we are looking for is just enthusiastic gardeners, and, if they need support, we can find a way of supporting them in terms of knowledge."
A successful match was made last June, between Ali D'Marco, of Bookham, and Judy Kinloch, who owns a house near Mickleham.
Ms D'Marco, a professional gardener, grows a mixture of vegetables including broccoli, chard and garlic, both for personal use and to share with Mrs Kinloch.
"I would recommend the scheme to anyone," said Ms D'Marco. "Some of the gardens on the list are in really nice locations.
"The waiting list for an allotment is three years at the moment; if you have to wait three years and there is all this space anyway, it is madness."
Mrs Kinloch said: "There have been absolutely no problems whatsoever; she is so nice and always rings before she comes."
Jane Freimiller, part of the core group at Transition Dorking, is thrilled with the project.
"She (Ms Whiting) has started this from scratch, and what she has been able to do in a short period of time has been amazing," she said.
"We are really hoping more people want to do what Jenny did and we are really keen to hear about what people want for Dorking's future."
The list of available gardens, published on the group's blog, includes locations in Westcott and Box Hill.
For more information, visit www.dorkinggardenshare.word press.com, e-mail transitiondorking@gmail.com or call 07724 432441.
