The Florence Firestone Community Garden is a large community garden in the Watts neighborhood of South Los Angeles. The garden is about 4 years old; founded in 2011 in a collaboration between Los Angeles Community Garden Council and Los Angeles County’s second district. Around 75 community gardeners tend 112 plots spread across two parcels of land a half block apart. […]
LACGC receives Certificate of Recognition from LA Recreation & Parks
In November 2014, LA Community Garden Council was proud to receive a Certificate of Recognition from the LA City Department of Recreation & Parks at their 125th Anniversary Celebration for our work building and maintaining community gardens.
UCCE Master Gardener Applications 2015
Are you interested in applying for the 2015 UCCE Master Gardener Program? Apply by January 9, 2015. Since 1993, the UCCE Master Gardener Program has trained 1,127 Master Gardener volunteers who have served 1,283,928 Los Angeles County residents. In 2013-2014, 291 Master Gardeners logged 20,658 volunteer hours and 4,569 continuing education hours helping 143,477 Los Angeles County residents at 269 locations (91 […]
Jamie Oliver’s Food Foundation publishes LA Garden Council Article
The Jamie Oliver Food Foundation is spreading the word about The LA Community Garden Council. Click here to read the article and check out his foundation website.
Our Sweet 16 Party, September 7. 2014
Thanks to every one that participated in our Sweet 16 party, we had an amazing time and we have our guests, sponsors, volunteers and great supporters to thank. Brett Thompson and Pez Cantina for the excellent food and salsa demonstration. Firestone, Walker for the beverages. Unpopable for the great music. Esteban Ortiz from the Florence-Firestone Garden for telling the story […]
Meet the Elysian Valley Community Garden
The Elysian Valley Community Garden On a street bordering the abandoned BIMBO bakery in “Frogtown” sits the Elysian Valley Community Garden. The summer growing season is in full swing, and the garden is vibrant with the colors of growing vegetables and thriving plants. The garden is home to 30 4×8 foot garden plots, a large covered meeting space with benches […]
East Hollywood Garden Achievement Center project accepting construction bids
We are excited to be working with Osborn Architects to design the East Hollywood Garden Achievement Center at 1070 Madison Ave, LA 90029! Scheduled to open in January 2015, the Trust for Public Land and LACGC are transforming a 24,000 sq. ft. lot into a public park and community garden. Plans include 35 plots, large communal gardens, and a classroom […]
Meet the No Ho Community Garden
The North Hollywood High School’s agricultural program has been running continuously since the school opened in 1927 on 100 acres of land. Today, the school’s footprint has been reduced to eight acres but students continue to learn to grow fruit and vegetables and care for rabbits, turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, goats, pigs, 2 donkeys and a llama. The school’s caretaker […]
Makena’s Corner: Got Mulch?
One of the easiest ways to keep your soil moist and cool is to apply a layer of mulch on your garden. Start by checking with your local city or municipality. LA, Glendale, and Santa Monica all offer free mulch for residents. It generally requires being picked up from their facility. Another easy way to get copious amounts is by […]
Meet Annet Sasser
As a child, Annet Sasser learned to garden from an aunt in San Francisco who taught her all the domestic arts to keep her out of mischief! For thirty years, Annet lived in Georgia and grew many varieties of fruits and vegetables at her home. When she returned to California, she missed having a yard and one of her […]