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The suburban fabric largely consists of land dedicated to gardens. These gardens constitute a local resource which could meet a growing demand for space by “landless” cultivators. This paper examines the emergence of new actors who position themselves as garden loan intermediaries, between owner and users, in France. Field surveys reveal the new methods of matching and formalization carried out by national digital platforms and local action association stakeholders. The work presented in this article shows that these new actors in land intermediation are targeting their own specific groups of users and each in their own way shift the boundaries between the formal and the informal of the land share agreement. Our results compel us to take seriously the collective dynamics that are activated around everyday spaces and the possibilities for social, environmental, and perhaps political transformation that can be created despite their private status.