OVGG Events

OVGG Events

Events at Ocean View Growing Grounds are dedicated to serve and highlight the community by bringing everyone together to share resources, dedicate time to enhance the shared environmental justice learning hub, and to building social capitol.

Volunteers’ Potlucks

Our Winter holiday potluck was such a wonderful reminder of the importance of community and the ways we can celebrate one another.

It’s easy to get swept up in the pursuit of higher yields and bigger, tastier produce, and although this is a major part of what we aim to do at OVGG, it’s wonderful to be reminded of the simplicity and absolute necessity of celebrating the many ways in which each individual here has had a hand in every radish, beet and carrot pulled from the ground, every bean, pepper and eggplant snipped from the bush, and every bouquet of marigolds and cosmos gathered.

Harvest Festivals

OVGG's harvest festival is an annual event we throw for the community around Fall time. The harvest festival celebrates our last harvest of the year before we enter the winter dormant months. We want to center each harvest festival event around a theme that relates to environmental justice and climate change and an educational experience for all, and this year's theme centers around Native Plants and Community.

-Thi Vo, Environmental Justice Learning Hub Manager

At the Ocean View Growing Grounds Environmental Justice Learning Hub Harvest Festivals are events for building relationships among community members.

It is through these relationships (also called Social Capital) that a community is able to create a common vision as well as agree on their issues and concerns in a way that allow individuals to work together in a group to effectively achieve a common purpose – a healthy community.

- Bill Oswald; Associate Executive Director for Research and Evaluation

Earth Day

2024

Community members got to enjoy various fun acitvities. One of them was eco-printing, using small plants and flowers as stamps. Another was using microscopes to take a look at insects that make our soils healthy and pollinators who bring life to the garden. Special thanks to the Ruben H. Fleet Science Center for their support. Our volunteers were able to sit back and connect with their inner child again after planting seedlings, harvesting, and working together to improve food resilience in the local level.

SDG&E Workday at OVGG

NOV 2023

Thank you to all the SDG&E volunteers for taking such good care of our garden on this special workday! From planting fruit trees, pulling out our ice plants, to laying down pave stones, these volunteers blew us away!

OVGG now has 12 new fruit trees thanks to SDG&E!!!

Special Thanks to Berry good Food Foundation for donating tools!