Organic Garden Club members had a fabulous, feel good day with Karen Meir touring Mulberry Lane Farm! Gardening is therapeutic. Karen explained how working in the orchard and gardens improves the lives of two of her sons and their special needs adult classmates with down syndrome. The act of tending to living plants reduces stress,…
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Members Fruit and Veggie Garden Tour, June 14, 2025
The Organic Garden Club has a mission to inspire you to grow an Organic Food Garden where you live. Our Members Fruit and Veggie Garden Tour did just that! Thanks to our hosts Francis and Kim, Sue, Michael, and William! Twenty eight of us had a great day, each sharing tips and discoveries from our…
Organic Food Gardening
Organic permaculture gardening has the power to restore ecosystems, promote soil health, and create a sustainable future for generations. Several of our Organic Garden Club members, like Dr. Jeff Bass, have made hugelkutur mounds, a centuries old permaculture technique, in their backyard, where they started with tree logs, dirt, compost, sticks, twigs, and more compost…
Plant your Fall Organic Veggie Garden
It’s time to plant your fall veggies! You are what you eat! Grow a Backyard Pharmacy! Eating fresh, organic fruits and veggies saves time and money at the doctors office and on prescriptions and tastes amazing. Food is Medicine! Eat seasonally! It’s time to give up processed foods which are filled with too much salt,…
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…
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…
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…
Organic Garden Club of Ventura County 