Interested in starting an edible garden of your own? These helpful links and resources will help guide you in the right direction:
- Common Ground Program of UC Cooperative Extension
This group makes gardening possible in low-income, underrepresented communities through education and community gardens.
- Vegetable Gardening Handbook for Beginners
This handbook for beginning gardeners, produced by Common Ground Garden Program, offered useful and detailed information about how to get started.
- UC Davis Vegetable Research and Information Center
This resource, produced by the University of California, offers information on growing specific vegetables and fruits.
- Community gardens in L.A. County
See a list of community gardens throughout Los Angeles county
- Backwards Beekeepers
This non-profit group will relocate unwanted beehives.
- Smart Gardening
Gardening tips from the Department of Public Works.
- Palisades Schools Garden Network
Gardens are great teaching tools at schools.
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Yvonne Savio says :
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