At Parks Day on February 25, the City of Santa Monica celebrated and held activities at four parks — the re-opening of Reed and Los Amigos Parks, the re-imagined Stewart Street
This is a wonderful time of year! The days are becoming noticeably longer and with daylight savings soon upon us, I yearn for longer time in the garden, late afternoons
Walking through the Main Street Community Garden you will see many iterations of a well-tended vegetable garden, neat rows of carrots and beets, perfect heads of cabbage. And then there
“What is that?” It’s a common question heard from visitors to the Santa Monica Community Gardens. It could be about a towering stalk of collard greens or an artichoke
The following article is from one of our community gardeners, Ann Shepphird. It was originally posted on her website, GardensToTables.com, which she started when she got her community garden
By Ken Hansen
I had read an amazing article in National Geographic Magazine’s March 2016 issue about food waste and one man’s mission to help solve hunger. It
RECIPE: Stir-fry Kale & Beet Tops
+ Kale Chips
One of the greatest joys to having a vegetable garden is the ability to eat very fresh
fruits and vegetables. The kids
Seeds burst with life. Wondrous, seemingly miraculous, in a seed, as tiny as a fleck or grain, is an embryo of a flowering plant, a food, a tree. Those seeds
By Talia Tinari
The salesman poured a taste of wine into the glass. I swirled, smelled, tasted, spit. “All BI-O-dy-NAMIC!” he said. I nodded my head, not really sure what
Name: Tiffany
Community gardener since: 2014
Plot Size: 10 x 10
Gardening background: One of my most favorite activities as a kid was picking peaches at a local farm not
