Urban agriculture organizations in San Diego
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One of the least-known treasure troves of information in San Diego County, the Master Gardener Associaciation -- two-hundred Master Gardeners strong -- provides home gardening and pest control information throughout the county, free to the public. You can request a master gardener speaker to come to your community garden by visiting their website.
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In June of 2010, Roy Wilburn was hired as Sunshine Care’s Director of Horticulture. You can usually find him in one of the five organic gardens, producing high quality organic fruits and vegetables for the residents and those in need in the Poway area.
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A project of Zero-Waste nonprofit Inika Small Earth, Food2Soil is San Diego’s first and only project that promotes community composting through the creation of jobs and GROWing soil. Their goal is to build neighborhood capacity to recycle organics by equipping community gardens, office complexes, places of worship and vacant lots with composting systems. A unique angle of their work is that it creates income opportunities for composters who sell soil, worm castings thus closing the loop right where they live and work.
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The IRC in San Diego’s Food Security and Community Health (FSCH) Program creates innovative and sustainable projects that increase healthy, locally-grown, culturally-appropriate foods for and by San Diego’s refugee and low-income communities. Since 2007, the FSCH Program has partnered closely with our clients, local neighborhoods and organizations throughout San Diego County to find durable solutions to food insecurity, health problems, and economic hardship through community-based food and farming projects.
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Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center’s historic 6.85-acre property in National City, California serves as an interactive, indoor-outdoor classroom for children and adults from around San Diego County. Olivewood provides science based environmental education lessons, hands-on gardening, and hands-on cooking to students and families from underserved communities.
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The People's Produce Project is a resident-led multi-faceted program intended to address the growing need for food equity in Southeastern San Diego.
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People depend on soil, water, air, plants, and animals to survive. These natural resources are the source of our food, shelter, clothing, and recreation. The Resource Conservation District (RCD) of Greater San Diego County provides technical, financial, and educational assistance to help both rural and urban communities conserve, protect, and restore these natural resources.
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Seeds @ City Urban Farm is a one-acre working farm located in the heart of downtown San Diego that also serves as the outdoor classroom for the Sustainable Urban Agriculture program at San Diego City College. Seeds @ City trains young, urban farmers while growing nutritious food for our community, encouraging self-reliance and a thriving local economy.
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The mission of the Solana Center is to empower students and adults through education and action to become environmental stewards in their communities. The Solana Center's programs are broad in scope, including: environmental education, composting, gardening, watershed protection, pollution prevention and sustainable living.
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Wild Willow Farm & Education Center is a six-acre working farm located in the southwest corner of the United States, less than three miles from the Pacific Ocean and two-thirds mile north of the Mexican Border. The farm is nestled along the banks of the scenic Tijuana River, and borders the river’s stunningly beautiful estuary nature preserve. We’re a 15-minute drive from downtown San Diego, with easy and quick access from most of urban south San Diego County.
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Helping people start growing their own food through collaborative garden builds, hands-on garden education and community outreach, VGSD is a program of San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project and works hand-in-hand with several San Diego food-movement groups to further our mission.
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