Growing Hope Gardens

23/02/2026

It tool a village to finish installing all garden beds before these last rains. central kitchen already provides thousands of meals each day to unhoused and recently unhoused adults, children & seniors they serve. These new garden beds that line the front and the entire side of their central kitchen building will now provide nutritiously dense vegetables and herbs to to medically necessary meals.

It took dozens of groups of volunteers, dedicated employees, contractors and donors to unload and load 10 pallets of Organic OMRI soils, compost & worm castings amd 250 planks from . Moving and staining 250 planks 8’x12”x2”, assembling them, filling them and planting them was only possible with so many hands working together. This heavy physical effort felt like CrossFit 🏋️
Finishing this installation before these rains prevented the wood from absorbing the water and being way heavier. This push to finish before these California storms paid off by making the entire workload lighter and drenching with raindrops on the new seedling

All seedlings were gifted by . Financial donations from

23/02/2026

It took a village to finish installing all garden beds before these last rains. central kitchen already provides thousands of meals each day to unhoused and recently unhoused adults, children & seniors they serve. These new garden beds that line the front and the entire side of their central kitchen building will now provide nutritiously dense vegetables and herbs to to medically necessary meals.

It took dozens of groups of volunteers, dedicated employees, contractors and donors to unload and load 10 pallets of Organic OMRI soils, compost & worm castings amd 250 planks from . Moving and staining 250 planks 8’x12”x2”, assembling them, filling them and planting them was only possible with so many hands working together. This heavy physical effort felt like CrossFit 🏋️
Finishing this installation before these rains prevented the wood from absorbing the water and being way heavier. This push to finish before these California storms paid off by making the entire workload lighter and drenching with raindrops on the new seedling

All seedlings were gifted by . Financial donations from

13/02/2026

Share the love this Valentine’s Day by giving back to your community. Signup LINK IN BIO

Join us to plant, water, and prepare with soils and compost, EIGHT new garden beds at Hope The Mission’s multi-shelter kitchen. We will plant hundreds of seedlings, growing nutritiously dense foods for medically necessary meals at the multi shleter kitchen.

This Saturday, Feb14th, 10AM – 2PM
Hope The Mission
Use street parking please. Bring sun protection, your water bottle, close toe shoes & gloves if you have.

13/02/2026

With the help of  's group of volunteers, we launched the building of our next   project: EIGHTEEN garden beds to grow onsite nutritiously dens foods at  's centralized kitchen. These garden beds will be providing nutritiously dense food to medically necessary meals for residents at  shelter and bridge housing locations. 🙏       

06/02/2026

Special Food Justice Project Alert! Signup link in Bio

We NEED volunteers to help us build, load, unload and install 25 wooden garden beds for a homeless shelter kitchen garden program at Hope The Mission 's centralized kitchen.
- Feb 10th, 10:30-2:30 at the Farm
- Feb 12th, 10:30-2:30 at 16641 Roscoe Pl North Hills,
CA 91343

The food harvested from these gardens will supplement medically necessary meal for recently unhoused adults and children.

No prior construction experience is required — just a willingness to work as part of a team, roll up your sleeves and get your hands in the soil!

25/01/2026

HOPE is needed, and can be found. In these uncertain times, the Farm has become a haven of peace. A place where humans connect, get to know new people, and work together for the greater good of all.

We are so very grateful to the many volunteers that help at the Farm every week. We have a few larger food justice project in the works and the extra hands volunteers give is ESSENTIAL.

Today I saw no phones being used, humans connecting and making new friends face to face. I saw people of different generations, countries, social economic status and backgrounds collaborating on transplanting seedlings, neighbors chatting over the fence, new friends clearing corner for Chayotes to grow, planting lettuce seedlings and flipping compost. I saw neighbors chatting over the fence.

Just humans, being humans in a safe green space meant for humans being their best selves.

Forever grateful for others, for peace and for community.

22/12/2025

Topanga New Times sharing our end of year fundraising campaign and response to increasing food insecurity.

Especially important when about 1 in 4 (24%) of LA County households experienced food insecurity in the past year.
(USC Understanding America Study, October 2025)

Hunger is rising across Los Angeles as local disruptions make it harder for families to access the healthy foods they need. 900,000 Angelenos are already food insecure. Communities are stretched thin, and parents are being pushed to choose between paying rent or putting food on the table. Growing Ho...

03/12/2025

We are launching Operation: GROW. GATHER. GIVE. In response to rising hunger in our communities, we are expanding our EMERGENCY FOOD PROGRAM. Thank you for considering supporting our food justice nonprofit with a tax deductible donation and/or volunteering

This past year, we've:
- planted just over 18,000 seedlings
- donated 80,000 pounds of rescued produce through
- leading 90 free Farmer's Market days
- hosting 33 free community workshops and hosted
- bringing food growing to just over 3100 low income folks. This is fun and meaningful work.

https://www.growinghopegardens.org/donate

Right now, more of our neighbors are having to choose between groceries and rent, medicine and meals. We see it every week—families stretching food longer, seniors skipping meals, parents trying to make “enough” out of not much. That’s why we’re expanding our food growing and giving program.

GROW: We’re increasing yield in our gardens and farm, so more fresh food can be grown and given.
GATHER: We’re organizing more harvest volunteer days, a harvesting rinse table and spinners
GIVE: We’re expanding or Free Farmer's Market distribution—giving folks a dignified way of gathering more fresh healthy foods. No questions asked when a person needs food.

If you’ve supported us before, thank you— come to the Farm and see for yourself the amazing ways your funds helped.

If you’re looking for a way to give that feels real this is it. Our overhead is super low, so more of your gift goes to direct help. Every donation helps us buy seeds, hoses, fuel food rescue deliveries, turn the compost, stock garden tools items, and fund our 21 monthly humanitarian work stipends.

Here’s how you can help:
• Give what you can this Giving Season
• Start a monthly gift to carry us into 2026
• Share this post so more people know help is here
• Volunteer with us if you’re local

Thank you for growing with us.
Growing Hope Gardens Team

28/10/2025

When hunger affects so many, food waste is unacceptable. Thrilled to donate our surplus Lettuce and Greens to . Thanks to for connecting us and making a difference. Building resilient communities takes teamwork. We redirect the damaged produce to feed our compost program.

18/08/2025

Friends of all ages come to visit the farm. Lettuces, bok Choi, purple basil, Curly and lacinato kales were harvested. Jane Monteagle of and friends left some seedlings to plant at the local church. # community

22/07/2025

This summer, Growing Hope Gardens held our first ever Teen Urban Agriculture Program! Using the Master Gardener curriculum, local high school students learned the fundamentals of planting, growing, and harvesting produce sustainably. From planting seedlings to preserving beets, it was a transformative week for these high schoolers and we are very excited for the future of this program.

19/06/2025

Kids who grow veggies, really eat veggies! We are getting our garden beds ready for the new season and looking forward to a passionflower harvest from our 60-foot wall this fall.