Los Angeles Community Garden Council

Los Angeles Community Garden Council We also encourage workplace and school volunteers to serve our member gardens.

Strengthening communities by building and supporting community gardens where every person in Los Angeles County can grow healthy food in their neighborhood. for | The LACGC is largely run by volunteers and works closely with other nonprofit groups and municipal agencies, encouraging local residents to serve their neighborhoods by starting

and managing garden projects. Our partners include the LA Conservation Corps, the UC Cooperative Extension of LA County, the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, and socially responsible companies and nonprofits working on gardening and green projects in Great Los Angeles!

06/10/2026

Thirty years ago, Al Renner helped start not just Solano Canyon Community Garden, but the Los Angeles Community Garden Council itself.

At the time, he says he had “no idea and no job.” What he did have was a belief that gardens could bring people together.

Thirty years later, that seed has grown into a countywide network of community gardens rooted in food, friendship, culture, care, and land stewardship.

And what has Al learned after all these years? Community gardening is really about the heart.

06/09/2026

Tucked behind Dodger Stadium, beside the oldest freeway in Los Angeles, is celebrating 30 years of growing food, community, and connection.

In this conversation, garden leader Jamie Parreno reflects on what makes the garden both challenging and deeply special: the people. Community gardens are not always easy, but they remind us that healing can happen in simple ways—through shared work, shared land, and the feeling of soil in your hands.

The celebration also included traditional Indigenous dancers, honoring culture, memory, and the land this garden continues to steward.

06/08/2026

One of the founders of Burbank Community Garden reflects on what it means to shift from start-up energy to long-term stewardship.

After years of building something from the ground up, the work changes. It becomes less about creating the garden and more about caring for it, sharing responsibility, and learning how to move through the challenges of people.

Community is hard. But when we keep showing up and working together, something beautiful becomes possible.

06/07/2026

Does Burbank need a third community garden?

Ali Valdez, Chair of the Sustainable Burbank Commission and a member of Burbank Community Garden, shares why community gardens matter—not just as places to grow food, but as places to build connection, climate resilience, and neighborhood care.

She closes with a simple question for the city: what would become possible if Burbank had one more?

Do you agree?

06/06/2026

Artist Amanda Leigh Smith, creator of painted a new mural at inspired by vintage California postcards—with the plants those postcards often left out: California natives.

Her work reminds us that plants are more than scenery. They are food, dye, medicine, memory, and relationship. We don’t just have to look at them. We can interact with them.

Every drop connects us. Cada gota nos conecta. 💧Congratulations to Laura Burris, winner of our poster design contest! 💧🌱...
05/27/2026

Every drop connects us. Cada gota nos conecta. 💧

Congratulations to Laura Burris, winner of our poster design contest! 💧🌱

Laura’s beautiful design captures a message at the heart of community gardening: every drop matters.

In a city where water is precious, community gardens help us practice care, conservation, and connection — one garden bed, one watering can, one shared habit at a time.

Her poster reminds us that water does more than help plants grow. It connects neighbors, nourishes food, supports pollinators, and sustains the living networks that make our gardens thrive.

Thank you, Laura, for sharing your art with the LACGC community. And thank you to everyone who submitted a design celebrating water stewardship across our garden network.

Every drop connects us. Cada gota nos conecta. 💧

05/18/2026

Started the day at Stanford Avalon Community Garden. It’s one of our largest gardens with 200+ members and definitely a living lab for democracy.

05/02/2026

What’s the number one crop in the US? Not soy or corn. Grass. 40 million acres of lawns. Time to plant more food.

Thanks and for hosting such a great conference!

Cheers,

05/01/2026

Who wants more community gardens in LA? I’m here in NYC for the national GrowTogether conference of urban gardens. NYC has 500 community gardens and 20,000 members. In LA, we have about 160 community gardens. Should we build more? Comment below.

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Getting that garden hustle on 💪🏽🌱🧡
03/25/2026

Getting that garden hustle on 💪🏽🌱🧡

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