Edible Gardens around Los Angeles

Some of my favorite Edible and Functional gardens around Los Angeles.  All these gardens are open to the general public during selected hours (see their websites for hours and directions).

in Westchester/LA 90045 …

• Community Garden at Holy Nativity – a small, very public teaching garden that grows food charity-style to benefit the local Food Pantry; renowned as the starting place of many other projects.  Open to the public 24/7/365 (no fences).  http://envirochangemakers.org/projects/gardens/cgathn/
• Emerson Avenue Community Garden, Westchester/LA 90045.  A merged-function school garden + community plot-style garden + community pocket park, built on the grounds of an LAUSD middle school.  http://eacgc.org/site/
• LIONS Garden at Loyola Marymount University – community plots tended by and for LMU students, plus growing for donation to the local Food Pantry http://admin.lmu.edu/greenlmu/gardens/lionsgarden/

Elsewhere in and around Los Angeles

• Erika Glazer Edible Garden at the Natural History Museum http://www.nhm.org/site/explore-exhibits/special-exhibits/home-garden
• Oceanview Farms Community Garden , West LA/Santa Monica – 500 community plots http://www.oceanviewfarms.net/
• Huntington Ranch Project, Pasadena – a living experiment in forest-style food gardening on the grounds of The Huntington Museum  http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=8238
• Sepulveda Garden Center, SFV – 20 acres and 800 community plots http://www.laparks.org/dos/horticulture/sepulveda.htm
• South Bay Botanic Garden, Rancho Palos Verdes – hidden orchard where you can see mature and older fruit trees – As you enter the garden, remain at the crest of the hill.  Browse the vegetable and herb gardens, then continue further, selecting paths to the right at every opportunity.   The California Rare Fruit Growers often meet here.  http://www.southcoastbotanicgarden.org/
• The Learning Garden at Venice High School, Venice – one of the longest running school gardens, a model for many; home of the Seed Library of Los Angeles http://tlgdaily.blogspot.com/
• Theodore Payne Foundation – the premiere local source for Calif native plants, and information on attracting birds and pollinators. http://theodorepayne.org/

Beyond Los Angeles

• Santa Barbara Botanic Garden – the crown jewel of California native plant gardens, everything you ever wanted to know about attracting birds and insect pollinators. http://www.sbbg.org/