Meet Alvaro Santos from Mariposa-Nabi Community Garden

Mariposa-Nabi Community Garden opened its doors in 2012. It began as a “Little Green Fingers” garden, funded by First5LA, planned to educate young children in healthy eating habits and growing healthy food. It’s now run by the parents of these children. One of these amazing parents is Alvardo Santos. He first stepped into the garden on Fathers’ Day 2014 to help plant his family’s plot […]

Community Gardens and Child Safety

Community Gardens and Child Safety

Keeping The Whole Family Safe In A Community Garden Millennials are the fastest expanding group in society growing their own food in gardens and shared community gardens across the States. 13 million 18-34 year olds are known to be keen vegetable gardeners, a number that is believed to keep growing. This is great news for people’s health, bank balances and for gardeners […]

Get to Know Hermosa Beach Community Garden

Get to Know Hermosa Beach Community Garden

Imagine a beautiful open green space with lots of sky! Children laughing and playing in the background as an ocean breeze blows in your hair and between your fingers, the soil of wonderful earth. Welcome to Hermosa Beach Community Garden! On my visit recently to Hermosa Beach Garden, this is what I experienced. It was fantastic! I was greeted by […]

Meet Villa Parke Community Garden

    The Villa-Parke Community Center in northwest Pasadena was doing great things for its clientele, with playgroups for kids, recreational activities for seniors, and help for people navigating public services. But there was one area where director Rozanne Adanto really saw her folks falling behind: their diets. “It’s a borderline food desert,” she says of the ethnically diverse, low-income […]