Victory Gardens Grow in San Diego
Victory Gardens San Diego (VGSD) is a collaboration of 17 gardening, farming, educational and food justice organizations working to connect San Diego’s local food web. In addition to the organizational members, hundreds of individuals have volunteered over 2,500 hours with VGSD to install home, school and organizational gardens. To date, dozens of gardens have been installed.
I’ve had the pleasure of volunteering at multiple garden builds. Last month NBC San Diego arrived at a build and documented the process of creating a garden. Watch me shovel and rake soil in the NBC video.
A few days ago I participated in another installation. Within a few hours the volunteer crew built wooden raised beds, amended the soil and constructed a compost bin. The onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic chives, eggplant, French tarragon, bell peppers and flowering plants were barely in the ground before butterflies began to arrive.
The Finished Raised Vegetable Beds
In addition to the garden installs, VGSD offers a series organic vegetable gardening classes that cover lawn removal, soil amendment, bed preparation, planting, irrigation, composting and harvesting your garden. Watch a short video to learn more about the VGSD gardening classes.
Victory Gardens San Diego (VGSD) is a project of San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project, a 501(c)3 California non-profit corporation.