Composting is a wonderful way to turn kitchen and garden scraps into nutrient-dense soil. Come explore this practical science of decomposition and regeneration.
You're invited to a special film viewing of Common Ground, the sequel to the acclaimed documentary Kiss the Ground, which explores the power within our Soil and the magic of Regenerative Farming.
Good Neighbor Gardens is one of the features! A generous neighbor who was inspired by the film bought out the Landmark’s Hillcrest Cinema in Hillcrest so that you and your friends and family can view it for free. Now that is regeneration!
This free event aims to raise awareness about planetary stewardship and to bring our community together!
Common Ground is both educational and entertaining, highlighting the problems we face, and offering solutions for humanity to help rebalance our earth.
We have the opportunity and responsibility to create positive change.
Join us to learn how we can make a difference!
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Come play in the dirt and be a Jefferson Elementary farmer. There's so much to explore and discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You’ll create living food, harvest it, prepare it, taste it and share it with your community of friends, family and neighbors.
San Diego Craft Collective, 2590 Truxtun Rd., Studio 106, SD 92106
During this interactive workshop, students will learn about the cultivation and preparations of loofahs and make their very own batch of melt & pour soap.
Areas of focus include
soapmaking safety
recipe formulation
crafting with fragrances, colorants and embeds,
molding, curing, labeling, packaging
and gift design.
Upon completion of this workshop, students will walk away with a basic understanding of how to craft their own batch of melt & pour soap at home. Best of all, each student will leave this workshop with plenty of soap for personal use or gifts to loved ones.
Join us as we explore the tips and tricks of harvesting seasonal fruits and vegetables. We will prepare a lovely harvest salad to share with our fresh pickings.
Come play in the dirt and be a Jefferson Elementary farmer. There's so much to explore and discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You’ll create living food, harvest it, prepare it, taste it and share it with your community of friends, family and neighbors.
We are hosting a fundraiser to support veteran farmhand and friend, Alissa Aldous. Her passion goes beyond caring for the garden and promoting the importance of growing native plants. She loves hiking, especially for Trailblaze Challenge with Make-A-Wish San Diego. Please help her raise funds for children with critical illnesses.
Join us for a Good Neighbor Gardens Native Garden and Water-Efficient Landscape Tour on March 30th, 1:30 - 3:30 pm at the home of Jim Julius on Mt Helix. Native culinary creations will be served, they’ll knock your socks off!
This is a donation-only event. 100% of the proceeds will go to support Alissa’s Trailblaze Challenge. Spaces Limited to keep this event intimate.
The first 15 people to RSVP will be sent a confirmation with the event address included.
Kinder through 4th graders, come play in the dirt and be a Jefferson Elementary farmer. There's so much to explore and discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You’ll create living food, harvest it, prepare it, taste it and share it with your community of friends, family and neighbors. Students who participate will have the chance to experience our unique harvest kitchen program and run periodic farmstands with the help of the Good Neighbor Gardens educators on campus.
Needs Based Scholarships Available
Come play in the dirt and be a Jefferson Elementary farmer. There's so much to explore and discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You’ll create living food, harvest it, prepare it, taste it and share it with your community of friends, family and neighbors. Students who participate will have the chance to experience our unique harvest kitchen program and run periodic farmstands with the help of the Good Neighbor Gardens educators on campus.
Reserve your space early! This club is very popular and is sure to fill fast, and is limited to the first 12 to enroll.
3 scholarship opportunities are available for each session. If you would like to apply for one please fill out the form below and mark YES on the last question. We will contact you by email to confirm if we can award your child a scholarship before you complete the registration payment. This is a first come first serve opportunity.
Once you have completed the form below, if you are not waiting on a scholarship confirmation, please return to this page and click the button below to complete the payment process.
If you prefer to pay with Venmo, please use @goodneighborgardens and designate which day you would like to register your child for (Thursday or Friday). We will confirm your child’s registration once we receive your payment.
Come help us insert and amend the soil for our new raised bed installation at Liberty Station. It’s a collaboration garden for The Craft Collective and The Treehouse Academy students. This educational garden will be a wonderful way to teach the community how gardening in a small space can be quite abundant.
Please rsvp to mia@goodneighborgardens.com by June 1st so we can get an accurate count of helpers.
Donate to the garden - You can give to the development of this education garden and help provide the necessary resources to help these children continue to learn in their natural outdoor classroom! Just click the button below and contribute any amount that you wish.
Come play in the dirt and be a Jefferson Elementary farmer. There's so much to explore and discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You’ll create living food, harvest it, prepare it, taste it and share it with your community of friends, family and neighbors. Students who participate will have the chance to experience our unique harvest kitchen program and run periodic farmstands with the help of the Good Neighbor Gardens educators on campus.
Reserve your space early! This club is very popular and is sure to fill fast, and is limited to the first 24 to enroll.
3 scholarship opportunities are available for each session (Thursday and Friday). If you would like to apply for one please fill out the form below and mark YES on the last question. We will contact you by email to confirm if we can award your child a scholarship before you complete the registration payment. This is a first come first serve opportunity.
Once you have completed the form below, if you are not waiting on a scholarship confirmation, please return to this page and click the appropriate button below to complete the payment process “Pay for Thursdays” or “Pay for Fridays.”
If you prefer to pay with Venmo, please use @goodneighborgardens and designate which day you would like to register your child for (Thursday or Friday). We will confirm your child’s registration once we receive your payment.
Come visit one of our Gracious Neighbor’s properties and take a walk through the native garden on April 3rd from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn about the many benefits of these native plants and enjoy some delicious culinary treats from the garden. This is the 1st community Get Down of a 3 part series so you will want to make sure to RSVP for each date. Space is limited so RSVP now to reserve your spot. $10 donation recommended. Location will be disclosed to those who RSVP online.
Register via our Eventbrite page HERE
Come visit our newest and largest feeder farm on March 27th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a lesson on how to read the weeds, enjoy some delicious culinary treats from the garden, and contribute to the health of our urban farm in this community Get Down, part of a participatory event series by Good Neighbor Gardens. Space is limited so RSVP now to reserve your spot. $10 donation recommended. Location will be disclosed to those who RSVP online.
Register via Eventbrite link HERE
Join our tree planting club and learn about how Kate Sessions actualized her vision of a green, leafy transformation of San Diego. Together we can help implement SD’s Climate Action Plan one tree at a time.
We invite you to plant fruit trees in a conducive space in your neighborhood where there is an incentive to ensure it is well cared for and maintained regularly throughout its natural life. This can either be in your yard or in the yard of another community member who is willing to sponsor the space. Each tree that is planted will help the next generation develop an ethic of stewardship and establish a conscious relationship between them and nature.
What would the commitment consist of and how will it represent our mission and vision?
planting together (conscious relationship)
maintenance commitment over 2 years (responsibility and education)
impact measurement (stewardship) - reporting every 6 months
a story from each child once per year (storytelling)
sharing commitment (fruit swap)
At this time we have space for 40 children between the ages of 8-18 to register. Just fill out the form below and a Good Neighbor Gardens team member will follow up with you to confirm your registration.
Join us live to learn how Kate Sessions actualized her vision of a green, leafy transformation of San Diego, and how together we can help implement SD’s Climate Action Plan.
Instagram: IG Live at @goodneighborgardens
Zoom: Meeting ID: 714 7973 8175 / Passcode: soulful
Saturday, December 12th, 3pm - 4pm
This is a special two-part event:
May 9 (part 1) Container Planting for Tomatoes
May 23 (part 2) Tomato Plant Care and Maintenance
Our Fabulous Farmhands love to start seeds, so much that they started way too many tomatoes for this warm season, and they’re ready to be planted NOW! Would you care to help us “catch up” on planting these lovely tomato seedlings? Here’s how:
Click the link below to register - your payment covers all items you will need to participate in both parts 1 and 2 of this two-part Get Down
We will deliver all items to you during our next harvest distribution, including tomato seedling, soil, nutrients, a container for potting, companion plant seeds, a trellis, stake, and a GNG hat.
Download the Zoom app, and log on to join us on May 9th at 11 a.m. to join the Get Down. We will plant the seedlings together with the guidance of our qualified farmhands.
The second zoom call on May 23 at 11 a.m. will cover plant care and maintenance tips.
*Please note , we will now be delivering materials to ALL participants (regardless of location), deliveries will be made on Weds, May 6th to all participants who are subscribed to our CSA and May 8th to all others.
Join our newest creative culinary partner, Samantha, for a fun and lively Zoom cooking class from her kitchen!
Samantha “Sam” Binkley, is a Certified Health Coach and founder of Healthy On You®, a line of organic, gourmet spice blends and has been teaching healthy cooking classes in the Rancho Santa Fe area for the past five years.
The Menu: Moroccan Spiced Bean Stew with Pasta using your Moroccan spice packet and mustard greens you received in your harvest box
Saturday, April 11th, 11 am - 1 pm
Learn more about Samantha at
IG @healthyonyou & @spicysam
FB: @healthyonyouspices @sambinkleycookingwww.
Web: healthyonyou.com & sambinkley.com
San Diego, you are in for a real treat at this month’s Good Neighbor Gardens Get Down!
We are pleased to introduce to you Benny Thompson (pronouns: they/them), a local, small scale urban farm-steader we have partnered with to supplement our CSA boxes with delicious, nutrient dense organic food grown in their innovative vermiponics food mural. Come take a tour of Benny’s food mural system, learn the unique aspects of how they designed and built their vermiponics system to grow food utilizing worm-driven compost tea, and find out how this system can be implemented in your own yard.
Urban food forests are possible and accessible!
A delicious, artisanal, hyper-local lunch will be served with all foods sourced from Benny’s food mural and our Gracious Neighbors’ gardens.
Saturday, March 7 , 12pm - 2pm
Come play in the dirt and be a Loma Portal Elementary farmer. There's so much to explore and discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You’ll create living food, harvest it, prepare it, taste it and share with your community of friends, family and neighbors. Reserve your space early. This club is very popular and is sure to fill fast, and is limited to the first 18 to enroll.
Cost $120
The lifeblood element that makes up 60% of our bodies. It’s the liquid that we don’t drink enough of, yet waste effortlessly. It’s home to millions of species, mysteries, and undiscovered knowledge.
We know more about the stars in the sky than the depths of our oceans. We can use it to save lives. If used foolishly, it can take lives. We think there is an abundance, yet only one percent can be touched. If we don’t protect our waters, then what will happen to life?
Come listen to Good Neighbor Gardens Founder, Mia Vaughnes speak about the importance of conserving and appreciating our water.
8:30 AM - Doors Open
9:00 AM - Welcome! & Mia Vaughnes
10:00 AM - Get to work!
DEADLINE EXTENDED
Thank you for your interest in the Good Neighbor Gardens Bee of Service Essay Contest. We are thrilled about your enthusiasm to become advocates on your campus for bee conservation and education. Please take the time to fill out this form and submit it along with you essay. This is a requirement for participation in the program and all applicants will need a completed form on file to be considered. Essay’s must be written by student applicants. Photos or drawings are welcomed with your essay submissions.
Come play in the dirt and be a Loma Portal Elementary farmer. There's so much to explore and discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You’ll create living food, harvest it, prepare it, taste it and share with your community of friends, family and neighbors. Reserve your space early. This club is very popular and is sure to fill fast, and is limited to the first 18 to enroll.
Cost $120
Two of our schools have launched financial support campaigns. Please donate today to help us keep up the good work.
Hearst Elementary School
Loma Portal Elementary School
https://donate.seedmoney.org/2932/loma-portal-elementary-garden
Come be a Pacific Beach Elementary School farmer and learn how to grow food, harvest, prepare delicious garden-fresh dishes, and feed your community. There's so much to do and discover. 1st through 5th grade students welcome.
Cost $160
Come play in the dirt and be a Hearst Elementary School Farmer. There's so much life to discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You will harvest and prepare fruits and vegetables for you, your friends and family. Reserve your space early. This club is sure to fill fast.
Minimum Day Schedule 12:30-1:30
Cost $150
Enroll your child for fun in the sun at the next Loma Portal Elementary Garden Club. They will plot plan the entire school garden for the warm season and plant the garden boxes full of promising bounty. They will harvest for 2 outdoor professional chef-led cooking classes, 2 student-run farmstands to serve their community, and for healthy snacks at each session.
Limit 12 students.
All ages welcome. This is sure to fill fast!
Come spend time with the elementary school children at Stephen Hawking Charter School while they teach you how to harvest vegetables from the garden for you to take home and enjoy. The farmstand will be full of fruits and vegetables from our Gracious Neighbor residential gardens and harvested the same day! Now that's fresh pickens. Its a "donation station" for garden sustainability, so come get something and give something. Every little bit helps to continue developing mindful Stewards of the Land.
Neighbor progressive garden party dinner to kick off the Good Neighbor Gardens Kickstarter to raise money for a mobile farmstand for elementary garden students to provide fresh harvest to their communities.
By invitation only.
Come help us refresh the "Outdoor Classroom" at Loma Portal Elementary School in Point Loma. All volunteers welcome to help prepare the garden for learning, cultivating good food and sharing the harvest this 2017-2018 school year. It takes a village!
Come play in the dirt and be a Loma Portal Farmer. There’s so much life to discover in the garden, and food always tastes better when you grow it yourself. So come learn about the circle of life. You will harvest vegetables for yourselves and your school cafeteria so your friends and family can enjoy it too! Reserve your space early - this club is sure to fill fast!
$120
2nd through 6th graders welcome
Thursdays 12:45 - 2:00 p.m.
