Organic Garden Club – The Book

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…

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…

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…

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…

Organic Garden Club Tours 2021

Our garden club members grow healthy organic veggies and fruit in their backyards, patios, and community gardens, save their seeds, and have compost bins. We visited seven different gardens, nurseries, and farms during the year. The tours were educational and our members enjoyed them. We carpooled to all of our tours and had free admission. We are…

Grow an Organic Food Garden

Do you like to eat organic food, fresh from the Garden?  Imagine having a luscious salad garden on your patio, or a raised bed veggie garden next to your kitchen door. Are you ready to get in touch with Nature? To be more self-sufficient? To take action to create a healthy life? Now is the…

Robert Medrano at Peach Hill Soils

At Peach Hill Soil, Robert Medrano, owner of our local organic soil company, gives the Organic Garden Club of Ventura County president, Diana Lovejoy, a tour and shows us how to create an organic raised bed veggie garden and explains the different kinds of gravel, soil, and compost for our gardens. Video by Organic Garden Club…