Partners

  • The Center’s mission is to inspire people to experience, understand and care for the local natural world. The nature-based education and community programs at Debs Park are designed to engage children and their families in the outdoor world, and to give them a personal stake in its protection by making environmental issues relevant to their lives. The Center is operated by Audubon California, a state field program of National Audubon Society.

  • The Burbank Recycle Center has been committed to conserving resources, improving the environment, and engaging residents through great service since 1984.

  • Nestled in the basin of the Tujunga Wash, Cottonwood Urban Farm uses creative growing techniques to cultivate a variety of vegetables, fruits and herbs without the use of any large scale commercial farming equipment.

  • Founded in 2011, GrowGood, Inc., is a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization, creating urban agricultural programs to empower people and transform communities. GrowGood provides fresh produce and opportunities through our 1.5-acre farm in Bell, just south of downtown LA.

  • The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs.

  • The Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust was founded in 2002 to address Los Angeles's park inequities. The organization focuses efforts exclusively in communities of color that have little to no access to green space. They’re successful community development model engages residents from the beginning of the design process, through construction and ultimately the stewardship of the parks and gardens created. To ensure the long-term impact of our efforts, the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust is working towards equitable green space development through grassroots policy reform.

  • The Los Angeles Community Garden Council partners with 42 community gardens in LA County to take care of the business side of gardening and give you more time to get dirty in the garden! We work in tandem with LACGC to provide compost infrastructure and training to registered garden spaces. This program began with a project advanced by LA City Board of Public Works #FreetheFood Community Food Waste Challenge.

  • The mission of the Natural History Museum is to inspire wonder, discovery and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. At this hub we are composting organics from the café onsite. The compost created is used to amend the soil in the edible gardens and create seedlings that are given away at our several composting workshops. The cuttings from the native and edible garden are also composted in large piles and we will soon open up the compost area for employees to start using during their lunch break.