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  • 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 […]


  • Earth Day 2023 Flyer


  • A community garden in Watts provides solace, fresh produce for immigrants

    LA Times article about Stanford-Avalon Community Garden https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-02/watts-community-garden


  • 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 […]