Community Gardens
Dig is a unique student group on the UCLA campus that focuses on using student-driven research and peer learning. Through Dig, students educate one another about food, activism, health, and sustainability. Dig also works to ensure that spaces like the garden at Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, near UCLA’s on-campus student housing, expand throughout the...
The Garden Project facilitates collaboration among four UC Irvine community gardens to share resources, labor, gardening know-how, food, and fun. The project is building linkages with the broader Orange County community involved in sustainable food production, particularly in low-income communities.
The project aims not only to enrich student...
The Greenhouse and Garden Project is an educational organization at UC Santa Barbara that welcomes students, faculty, and staff members to maintain their own plots to garden organically.
No pesticides or harmful chemicals can be used, providing a safe environment and teaching members alternative ways of gardening. Members are able to eat fruit off...
This educational and residential program is focused on experiential learning, sustainability, and food systems. PICA residents have the opportunity to grow their own food together, share meals, and explore ways to live more sustainably.
Sophomores, juniors, and seniors from disciplines across the social sciences, natural sciences, arts and...
R'Garden is open to UC Riverside students, faculty, staff, and community members, to grow fresh produce while learning about social, environmental, and economic sustainability through a food systems approach.
R’Garden is three acres that include a community garden, row crops, a Valencia orchard, and a greenhouse area. It serves as a sustainability...
Through a series of tours and videos, UC SAREP and UC Cooperative Extension Los Angeles collaborated with youth-focused urban agriculture programs throughout the state to give youth the opportunity to share their passion for their gardens, and for the University of California and food systems advocates to see the value of and needs associated with...
This website from the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources offers resources on small-scale production, including soil, planting, irrigation, pest management, and harvesting, as well as information on the business of farming, such as how to market urban farm products.
