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Send Us Your Seeds of Transformation Response

imgres Reservations are filling up fast for PCGC's fabulous 2016 Seeds of Transformation garden party with County Mike Antonovich and Chief of Staff Kathryn Barger on Sunday, March 20. Send in your response form or use your via our website today! The amazing chef will be Christine Moore of Little Flower Cafe and Lincoln Restaurant - which Jonathan Gold called "that great Eastside destination." We'll listen to great jazz and have some entertainment surprises
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Mayor Tornek Honors PCGC

The Conservancy received a Certificate of Recognition from Mayor Terry Tornek at Donor Recognition Day at the Villa-Parke Community Garden, on November 21, 2015. The certificate thanked our 350 donors for your "generous support of the educational programming at Villa-Parke Community Garden [which] has made a positive impact on the community." Dozens of PCGC donors turned out to meet Pasadena's new Director of Public Health, Michael Johnson, and other members of his team who will be working with the community gardeners at the
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Winter in the Garden

The Villa-Parke Community Garden is producing a bountiful crop of winter veggies. What a blessed year 2014 has been! [portfolio_slideshow id=1192]
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The Conservancy’s Nutrition Education is Popular at Villa-Parke Community Garden

Dietitian/Nutritionist Liza Owen's weekly Nutrition Education classes, funded by PCGC, have become one of the most popular attractions at the Villa-Parke Community Center in a very short time. Ms. Owen - who holds a Masters Degree in Nutrition, is a trained chef, and simultaneously translates her lectures into Spanish - is a highly dynamic and energetic teacher who makes her classes engaging and fun for all ages.
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Chef and Dietitian Joins Villa-Parke Team

PCGC is delighted that Elizabeth Owen, R.D., a Registered Dietitian and Chef fluent in Spanish, has joined the Villa-Parke Community Garden team part-time to teach nutrition classes each week. The classes, underwritten by a grant from PCGC, will focus on preparing, eating, buying, and cooking with vegetables and fruits as part of a healthy lifestyle. Ms. Owen is formerly the Assistant Director of Nutrition Services at the Covina Valley Unified School District, has taught "cultural cuisine" at Cal State L.A., and has
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VILLA-PARKE COMMUNITY GARDENERS MARCH IN PARADE

Some of the gardeners from the Villa-Parke Community Garden, which PCGC is supporting, marched proudly in the City of Pasadena's Latino Heritage Day Parade, on Saturday, Oct. 25, along with members of the Villa-Parke Community Center's Aztec dance troupe and soccer players. The gardeners got into the fun spirit of the parade, dressing as fruits and vegetables. Cameron Schuster, from L.A. County's Little Green Fingers Program, PCGC's partner along with the City of Pasadena in the garden, and his wife carried
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SAVE THE DATE for PCGC’s Garden Party on May 8, 2015

Plan to join us for Seeds of Transformation, our annual Garden Party, on Friday, May 8, 2015, in support of community gardens and nutrition education for families in Northwest Pasadena’s “food desert” neighborhoods. We’ll be gathering among the ponds and rose gardens of the late industrialist C. F. Braun’s 1921 Italian Revival estate on Oak Grove Ave. in San Marino. Renowned local architects Sylvanus Marston and, later, George B. Kaufmann, both worked on the design of this lovely home. We'll enjoy
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The Conservancy Plants Community Garden at Westridge

From Westridge.org: 7th Grade Service Learning Partners with the Conservancy to Learn About the Impact of Community Gardens Westridge 7th Grade Service Learning partnered with the Pasadena Community Gardens Conservancy (PCGC) to explore the impact of community gardens and to plant the south Community Garden bed at Westridge. Service Learning Coordinator Becca Marcus identified the Conservancy as a fit for Westridge because the project related directly to what students learned about food security and food deserts, specifically how a lack
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Villa-Parke Community Garden Opens April 26

Pasadena Community Gardens Conservancy Invites All of Who Love Gardens, Green Space, and Good Health To Come Out on April 26 at 10:30 am to Celebrate Pasadena's First Public Community Garden Villa-Parke Community Center 363 E. Villa St. @ Los Robles Ave. Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, Assemblymember Chris Holden, and County Supervisor Michael Antonovich will be there to cut the ribbon on the new garden with their nonprofit partner, the Pasadena Community Gardens Consevancy. There'll be performances by student groups from Villa-Parke and booths
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