Exciting Opportunity for Your Community Garden!

The Los Angeles Community Garden Council was awarded funding through the Los Angeles County Measure W – Safe Clean Water Program to conduct three watershed investigations, known collectively as the Community Garden Stormwater Capture Investigation Project. The Investigation will identify and assess the potential for community gardens to implement stormwater best management practices. The Investigation will result in conceptual stormwater […]

The joy of gardening: how to embrace outdoor space to maximize wellbeing

Having some outdoor space – whether that’s a courtyard, garden or balcony – is a fantastic opportunity. Growing our own vegetables or plants, watching them thrive or simply enjoying the sights and smells of nature – all of the activities associated with gardening – can really boost our mood. Spending time outdoors is great for our wellbeing, but gardening can […]

Meet our NEW Vice-Board Chair, Erika Crenshaw

Get to know LACGC’s New Vice-Board Chair, Erika Crenshaw, who shares some of her views about community and gardening. Tell us who you are and how you began to garden/grow your own food.  The first gardening I ever did was setting up a big beautiful ceramic planter we had just bought while working abroad in 2014. My wife and I planted tomatoes for gazpacho.   I […]

Meet our NEW Board Chair, Nisha Parekh!

Meet Nisha Parekh, LACGC’s New Board Chair.Read our interview with Nisha below, Q: Tell us who you are and how did begin to garden?   Nisha: Both my grandmothers and my mother kept food gardens and used herbs and crops they grew in their cooking, so eating directly out of the garden has always been an important part of my relationship […]

Burbank Community Gardens-Chandler/Pass NOW accepting plot applications!

Hello Friends!Thank you to everyone who has responded to the plot application for the Chandler/Pass garden so far! Reminder that applications are due April 15. Please help spread the word! April WorkdaysOne of the best ways to learn about the garden is to jump in for a workday! We’ll be weeding, composting, working soil, and staking out beds. Bring gloves, work […]

Appreciating Native American Agricultural Practices

There is a new generation of growers who practice Native American agricultural techniques. They use these methods because they have proven to work, are earth-friendly, and offer a way to honor our ancestors.Below are some techniques we continue to use today:1 – Companion Planting – corn provides support for pole beans to climb; the beans add nitrogen to the soil for future crops […]

Endocrine Health and WellnessBenefits found in your Community Garden

Have you ever wondered why you feel happier when you are gardening? This is due to releasing stress on your endocrine system, otherwise known as your emotional system, through fresh air brought to us by photosynthesis, how plants convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into sugars and oxygen.  Converting open land and lots for community green spaces increases a natural barrier and filter for endocrine disruptors […]

Community Gardens and Food Insecurity

A popular reason why community gardens are loved among the LACGC community is that people get to grow their own food. Being able to grow the vegetables, herbs, and other products people use to make their meals is an incredibly satisfying process. It is not only better for the environment since you are obtaining what you eat locally, but it […]