Tag: community garden

The University of La Verne’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement as well as the La Verne Ocean Movement Club partnered up with the Peace and Carrots Community Garden for a day filled with reducing, reusing, and recycling, Saturday morning. 

Juliana Pichay, justice resident for the Solid Rock Church, helps two volunteers fill their pots to start gardening on Saturday at the Community Garden event.

Tianna Cano, sophomore computer science major and Botany and Gardening Club president, works in the University of La Verne community garden.

Behind the Health Center there is an area where students in the Botany and Gardening Club can see the products of their work and retreat to relaxation.

A plot that used to only have rotting playground equipment now provides thousands of pounds of fresh produce annually through the La Verne Church of the Brethren’s Peace and Carrots community garden project.

The La Verne Church of the Brethren is growing fresh produce in its new community garden called “Peace and Carrots,” and each gardener is donating 10 percent of their produce to local food banks.