Jonathan Fajardo, the Cultural and Programming Director for Compton Community Garden is working to keep the agricultural history of Compton going through gardening.
Though many of the families have left, the area still holds on to its farm roots with barns and horse ranches and sections like Richland Farms.
It’s a natural space, he says, where community members can learn to grow food, teach others, or just simply breathe. The garden grows everything from fresh chocolate mint, sage, and watermelon, to blueberries, tomatoes and summer greens from the vine. “Friendships…business ideas, all types of these incredible things have just come to fruition during these community volunteer days," Fajardo said."Just because people from different cultures and different backgrounds, socioeconomically and otherwise, have just come together.”
he said. “And also on a baseline level where I could just learn how to grow food, which I feel is a skill that every human being should have, as it's the resource that really does matter.As a kid, Fajardo saw many community gardens that required hefty payment in order to secure a plot to grow food. This was a barrier to entry for him.It wasn't until he was skating around Long Beach a few years ago that he saw a community garden pop up where there used to be an old motel.
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