Good Neighbor Gardens

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Good Neighbor Gardens

Neighbors farming the city, sharing the harvest. Our space-efficient, eco-friendly and community minded operation is one from which everyone stands to benefit.

OUR MODEL

We farm yards and schools in San Diego homes to deliver organic, locally grown, pesticide-free produce through a CSA model. Our goal is to create a community of neighbors sharing their resources to ensure that everyone has access to the healthiest, freshest food at an affordable price. We want to teach the benefits of eating seasonally, promote an alternative way of feeding our families, and expose you to new and beautiful vegetables! "To waste and exhaust the land instead of using it to increase its usefulness will result in undermining, in the days of our children, the very prosperity which we ought to hand down to them amplified and developed."

-Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

01/06/2026

Do you want to learn how to grow your own organic food in the city? 🌱

We are now enrolling for our Soulful Green Practice Apprenticeship. The next cohort begins in February and we will have more cohorts throughout the springtime. Scroll for more information on what’s included in this immersive 4-week long course.

Visit the “Practice” tab on our website to fill out an interest form for the SGP 🥕

01/05/2026

As the year closes, every gift grows good. 🌱

Support community-grown food and education through the Good Neighbor Garden Foundation. Donate, share, or volunteer — your action matters. Click the link in our bio to learn more.

12/29/2025

12/26/2025

What are you cooking up this holiday season? 💚💜

12/23/2025

Peppers hung like ornaments and marigolds blushing like bows… here’s wishing you beauty and bounty and bliss this season and for many more to come!

12/19/2025

Our goal: scale our Harvest Share CSA program from 50 ➡️ 200 households in 2026! Your tax-deductible gift through the GNG Foundation ensures fresh produce reaches families and supports local farm partners. Volunteer, donate, or share to help us grow good together.

Link in bio to learn more.

12/16/2025

Our 2nd graders are participating in the Farmstand unit this year, where they will be collaborating with local farmers and community members to facilitate their own student-led farmers market. Next month, we’ll be taking them on a field trip to a local organic farm in San Diego to give them an orientation on farming/where their food comes from.

Before our trip, we wanted to get some data on what they already know about farming and compost, and their answers were too precious not to share. All answers are original spelling. Stay tuned for how their answers develop throughout the year….🪱💚

12/15/2025

When someone special, alive and equally unique as ourselves crosses our path, we are met with intrigue, excitement, maybe even a little fear or reverence. That’s how friendship begins. A friend is someone you treasure so much that you want to enjoy them, and so you find a way to cover them with love and protection. The children are openhearted and tender and they come by this easily. If you give them time in the garden they will naturally become its caretakers. We have so much to learn from them.

12/11/2025

Not everything can be learned inside a classroom… 🌱👀

12/09/2025

Join Good Neighbor Gardens at on the second Friday of each month from 9:30 - 11:00 am and learn how to grow your own organic fresh fruits, herbs and vegetables, save seeds, and make compost 🌱

Adult and children 10+ with an adult are welcome! Come grow with us this upcoming Friday, December 9th. Link to sign up is in the bio.

12/08/2025

Meet one of our darling garden club students, Valentina. When Valentina started in garden club, she was a little afraid of touching the soil. As time went on, she started to get more comfortable with getting her hands dirty. Today, she is always first in line to hold worms and transplant seedlings! We are proud of Valentina for having the courage to get out of her comfort zone and connect with the plant and animal world. 🪱

Our garden clubs are funded by community support through our 501c3 non-profit, the Good Neighbor Gardens Foundation. Your donation, volunteer time, and shared encouragement help create more stories like this. Visit the link in our bio to learn more. 💚

12/04/2025

One of our school gardens was vandalized the other day. The security cameras spotted 3 pre-teen boys jumping the fence, plucking the new seedlings from the soil, tossing them to the ground, turning the hose on to flood the area, they even knocked over the seedling in the greenhouse that the children started and cared for daily for several weeks. When I arrived the little starts were in a pile on the ground. It was so disheartening to discover that this pre-meditated spiteful act was perpetrated by the very demographic that we are trying to inspire to cultivate and care for life.

Perhaps these boys were bored. Maybe they never had the privilege of a day in the garden as a primary school student to plant and see what could become of their good intention over a single season. I did my best to recover the life they attempted to destroy. Fortunately, I arrived just an hour or so after they had gone and was able to save the seedlings and transplant them with the 1-6th grade students this week. They covered them with the protected cages and poured their love into them with a fervent heart. As I watched I was reminded that planting is like prayer. You don’t know what will happen in the future but you collaborate your action with hope and faith that what you plant will prosper and be protected regardless.

I had to submit a police report and I asked that the vandals be charged a day with me in the garden to care for it as the best recourse. Bounty abounds where grace is given. This is what the garden has taught me as I’ve been teaching in it.

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San Diego, CA

Telephone

+18583756121

Website

http://www.goodneighborgardens.com/

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