Los Angeles Community Garden Council

The Los Angeles Community Garden Council (LACGC) partners with 42 community gardens in LA County to take care of the business side of gardening and give you more time to get dirty in the garden! We also offer gardening advice and workshops to more than 125 community gardens in LA County. The Los Angeles Community Garden Council's mission is to strengthen communities by building and supporting community gardens where every person in Los Angeles County can grow healthy food in their neighborhood. We envision a garden network for Los Angeles where people of all ages and backgrounds live healthy, active lives in a clean environment by growing fresh food.

Opened on June 29th, 2019, this 24,000 square foot site in a residential neighborhood close to the Vermont/Santa Monica metro station will comprise of a public park at the front and a community garden at the rear. We have 31 individual plots, educational plots, a communal garden, and a classroom for teaching gardening, landscaping, nutrition, and cooking. Check out our photos from our Grand Opening! The Lavender Hill Urban Farm sits alongside the 110 freeway near Chinatown in Los Angeles, directly behind the Solano Canyon Community Garden.

Glen Dake is a landscape architect and leader in building community-designed landscapes, transportation, and school improvements in Southern California neighborhoods, where he has practiced since 1987. In 1996, he founded a practice to deliver professional landscape services to the building industry, institutions, and community groups. He helped to found the LA Community Garden Council in 1998 and helped to build the Echo Park Community Garden with the Trust for Public Land. He joined Los Angeles Council Member Eric Garcetti's staff to lead his successful green agenda between 2001 and 2005 and assisted in bringing the City into compliance with the Clean Water Act, the successful campaign for Prop O, adoption of the Renewable Portfolio Standard for energy, and developing thirteen new parks.

Since 1998, the Los Angeles Community Garden Council (LACGC) has been helping people grow and maintain community gardens in LA County. We are proud to have helped build 38 community gardens and to have offered gardening and community organizing advice to more than 125 community gardens in LA County. Each of these gardens is a unique place where the plants flourish, but human life flourishes here too. Have you harvested your own homegrown lettuce from the soil and served it for dinner? If so, you know how different this tastes from the salad we buy in grocery stores.