Don’t Delay – Dig Today
On May 5, 2011 the Ojai Valley Green Coalition adopted the Ojai Valley Community Garden as a pilot project under the Coalition’s Food Council. The Community Garden is an organic garden established earlier this year on one-acre of land at the Help of Ojai West Campus on Baldwin Road. The Coalition chose to adopt the Community Garden as a way to continue to support food and agricultural activities in the Ojai Valley.
Current Community Garden Members are now planting their spring crops and making friends with one another. The garden is as much about community as it is about gardening. Every one of the gardeners is working toward the same goal and enjoying the process of creating something that feeds their spirit and their passion.
Keith Brock, the backbone of the garden and the garden champion, has been busy helping round up garden tools, wheelbarrows and the like, and preparing the site for planting. Each gardener has a choice of farming in the soil, building raised beds or planting in containers. While garden space is available everyone can choose how much area they would like to plant. The smallest site is 10’ X10’ and the largest is whatever size the gardener can manage. Gardener dues start as low as $120 per year, which includes the cost of the site and water.
For more information about the Community Garden, contact project team leader Robin Graham at (805) 640-0569.
