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A Community Garden Committee, appointed by the Encinitas City Council and made up of community volunteers, has been working for over a year to site a community garden in Encinitas. Through a cooperative venture of the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) and Home Town Farms, the City of
Gordon Smith, the chair of the Community Garden Committee and Dan Gibbs, CEO of Home Town Farms approached the School District with their proposal to have a joint community garden and vertical growing farm on the school district site.
Under a plan conceived by the school district administration, community garden committee and Home Town Farms,www.hometownfarms.com, the community garden will be given property to create the garden on the site on Quail Gardens Drive. Once the plan is finalized, it will go to the EUSD board for final approval.
For more information or to volunteer assistance with the many facets of building a Community Garden, please e-mail the Committee at: encinitascommunitygarden@gmail.com
Check the community garden blog at: http://encinitascommunitygarden.blogspot.com