Are you ready to grow an organic food garden and learn to be happy, healthy, and peaceful? Hello, I’m Diana Lovejoy, President of the Organic Garden Club. Would you like to create an amazing new space that can transform your life? My book shows a way for you to put food on the table, improve…
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Tour of Tracy Kimes’ Garden
Tracy Kimes is a member of the Organic Garden Club and a Garden Consultant, look for her on Instagram @Tracy by the Yard. Tracy gives us a delightful tour showing her many different containers for her veggies, which makes it easy to be able to freshen the soil every year. She’s been creating rich organic…
Members Organic Garden Tour
Our members know that being in the garden is an invigorating mood booster, stress reliever, and energy enhancer that creates a peaceful feeling of well being. On our fun and amazing Members Organic Garden Tour, we toured four members gardens. Our first stop was at Tracy’s beautiful Veggie Garden in her ¾ acre yard. She…
Backyard Lifeboats
At our Organic Garden Club meeting, Dr. Sean Anderson, California State University at Channel Islands Environmental Science professor, gave a wonderful presentation on climate change, called “Backyard Lifeboats – Proactive Tools to Survive our Biodiversity Crisis.” There has been a massive habitat destruction in the world. Only 23% of the land remains wild and it’s…
Conservation, Permeability, and Retention
Laura Bauer from the Surfrider Foundation spoke to us at our May meeting about Ocean Friendly Gardens and keeping water in our yards. The Surfrider Foundation was started by surfers who didn’t want to surf in polluted water and are committed to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans and beaches through a powerful…
Growing Avocado Trees in your Backyard
Debi Markley, a California Rare Fruit Grower and Organic Garden Club member for many years, told us about her abundant backyard fruit trees at the Organic Garden Club meeting. She has been growing many of fruit trees in her yard for years. She said to grow an avocado from seed in a small pot with…
Organic Garden Club Tours 2022
The Organic Garden Club of Ventura County members went on amazing tours of gardens, nurseries, and farms during 2022 to expand our knowledge of organic fruit and veggies gardening, grown with native plants. We carpooled to all our tours and had free admission. Here are our some of our memorable tours. Gottlieb Native Garden On…
Water Conservation Plan
Our speaker at our August meeting is our own member, John Brooks who is a Senior Sustainability Analyst for the City of Thousand Oaks. Half of the United States is in a drought now. https://www.drought.gov shows a US drought monitor and up to date information. We are currently experiencing the 3 driest years on record (2020,…
OGCVC Members’ Fruit and Veggie Garden Tour
When you choose to grow an organic food garden, you will discover that your garden gives you not only food, but peace and happiness. A garden is restorative, giving you a sense of birth, growth, death, and new life, while nurturing your soul. Gardeners, like our members, are wonderful down to earth folks who make…
Arnold Bernstein – History of Apples
Arnold Bernstein spoke at the Organic Garden Club of Ventura County about the history of apples and growing Apples in Malibu. He has lived there for 50 years and has been growing trees for about 40 years. He has an acre with 400 trees in his orchard, with about 140 types of trees. Theocritus, the…
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