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- Community Gardens provide nutritious local fresh food for urban neighborhoods.
- Community Gardens stimulate local economies by allowing urban farmers to sell their products within their neighborhoods.
- Fresh food just harvested tastes better than food that has been prematurely picked, frozen and shipped thousands of miles...
- Fewer fossil fuels are used when food is grown locally because significantly less energy is used for transportation, refrigeration etc...
The freshest, healthiest, most flavorful food is what's grown closest to you. Click here to find a Farmer’s Market, Family Farm and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area. Click here to find community gardens in your city: American Community Garden Association
Because not all the great groups out there are listed on the website above, we've begun to compile a list of some amazing community garden organizations. Please note that these are just some of the groups we have heard of & like, and that there are many more out there!
Los Angeles
The South Central Farm is a 14-acre urban farm and community garden in South Central Los Angeles; it's considered the largest urban farm in the United States. After the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, the City gave the abandoned and trash-filled land to the community. 350 families banded together and cleaned up the land and turned it into fertile gardens where they grow food to sustain their families and to sell at the Sunday Farmers Market. All kinds of food crops, Mesoamerican crops, and medicinal herbs are grown at the Farm. The farm is an agricultural oasis in a concrete desert.
Recently, the City sold the property to a developer who plans to level the Farm and build a warehouse. There has been a grassroots mobilization against this and local non-farmers have been supporting the farmers.
