Introduction to Angeles Chapter

Urban Gardens

Los Angeles and its environs of stately and grand gardens and parks from the internationally renowned Getty Gardens and Orange County's Open Space and Community Parks and gardens plus the worlds largest city park in LA, Griffith Park to the small gardens that feed communities  and an intimate new experimental Farm Lab in Downtown LA.

The Angeles Chapter's famous city's that are known as “Asphalt Jungles” are ripe with festivals, parades, fairs and shows dedicated to flowers, trees, exotic flora and fauna in their environments plus greens, vegetables and fruits sold at farmer’s markets for the kitchen table to delight and nourish the Angeles Chapter residents and visitors alike…!

The Huntington Library with its traditional arboretum or walking the casual gardens on the streets of the many cities and neighborhoods that make up the Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club is readily available to the nature lover and community gardener in all of us.

Days can be spent walking the grounds of community gardens, university projects, cactus, succulent palm and orchid societies with back yard and experimental gardens, like the team behind the "Not-A-Cornfield" project in Downtown Los Angles just north of China Town which has now become Farmlab.

This garden project which started as a short term multi-disciplinary project on gardening, art and culture known as "Not-A-Cornfield" has developed into a sustainable, livable, and healthy concept in community gardens and cultural art programming in the community says, Site Manager Carmelo Alvarez. 

Mr. Alvarez believes that Farmlab’s success in bringing the community together to create a large urban garden will now continue to serve as a catalyst for community involvement and productive environmental change through the development of art, cultural and gardening projects in the Angeles Chaper, ensuring that Farmlab will be dedicated to the preservation and perpetuity of all living things in Greater Los Angeles and Orange County.

So whether you are studying the environment at the Award winning Audubon Society or at university garden laboratory on a sustainable future or visiting the intricate design of the Getty’s succulent gardens and enjoying the harmony of one of the Japanese Tea Gardens, or visiting the Huntington Beach Tree Society, the Sierra Club hopes you will find the treasures that are ready for your Green Adventure…!