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jbs HCI Community Garden
Since 2017, the jane b semel ( jbs) HCI Community Garden has served over 500 plotholders and has launched three certificate programs enrolling over 200 participants to date. The garden has played a role in mobilizing student responses around food insecurity on campus, by encouraging garden community members and plotholders to donate produce to the UCLA Community Programs Office (CPO) Food Closet. Bringing researchers, faculty, practitioners, and advocates across campus together helps catalyze community-based participatory research projects that promote access to freshly grown local produce across Los Angeles.
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“The value of the jbs garden lies not only in its food production, but in its ability to foster education and community… learning how our food is grown and seeing that first hand in the garden is one of the many pieces needed in the fight for food justice.”
The garden is located within Sunset Canyon Recreation Center at 111 Easton Cir, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
Leadership
Callista O’ConnorGarden Coordinator, Global Food Initiative Fellow |
Cooper BowenGarden Coordinator, Global Food Initiative Fellow |
Valeria Sanchez GarciaGarden Coordinator |
Ashley TeGarden Coordinator |
James Bassett, PhD |
As a land grant institution, the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands).