Gardens

A groundbreaking will soon be held for LBO's ninth community garden at 3121 Long Beach Boulevard. The garden will include an orchard, a sensory garden, a giving garden, a children's garden, and areas for California natives and plants that support bees, as well as 30 community garden plots and four accessible raised beds.

Long Beach Organic's newest site, the Crown Victory Community Garden includes 22 ground-level planters, two raised planters, and an 8-foot-tall grape arbor.

The Grace Park Garden, located within a pocket park at Plymouth and Elm streets, is part of a collaboration with the city to provide more green space in North Long Beach.

Commemorating avid gardener Mary Molina, this garden came to life with the Molina family's donation of land to the City of Long Beach for a community garden.

The city set aside space for this community garden during an expansion of Orizaba Park in 2010.

Established in 2001 on a vacant city property, the Pacific and Sixth Community Garden is a small patch of green on busy Pacific Avenue.

Opened in December 2013 with 20 small plots, the Seventh and Chestnut garden in downtown Long Beach is a favorite of nearby apartment dwellers.

Zaferia Junction Garden at 10th and Grand streets is LBO's largest garden, with 90 garden plots.