Growing Hope Gardens is rooted in the belief that everyone deserves the tools, space, and freedom to grow their own food. We innovate by bringing resident-led gardens into affordable housing, permanent supportive housing, and homeless shelters—turning rooftops, courtyards, and empty lots into safe, green spaces of healing, resilience, work development and intergenerational community. With support from Big Green, we remove nearly every barrier to access so underserved neighbors can plant, harvest, and share fresh food right where they live.
In 2024, at our 1/4 acre regenerative urban farm, we received 800 volunteers, partner guests, local residents, workshop specialists. We currently grow 80 varieties of edible vegetables, fruits, herbs and medicinal plants. We donated 50,000 lbs of harvested and gleaned produce. Following the local Palisades fires, the need rose for certain basic items such as clothing and hygiene products, diapers We host 3 free community workshops per months, with topics ranging from guided meditations, harvesting, mycology, compost building, strawberry festivals, transplanting, and many more. Situated in a California-designated disadvantaged community, our Growing Hope Gardens Farm & Resident Gardens provide vital access to fresh, healthy food while addressing removing almost all barrier to access and addressing environmental and social inequities.