The Azusa Pacific University Community Garden is a collaborative campus food garden with a 5000 square foot no dig “home vegetable garden” on campus plus perennial herbs, strawberries, cane berries, and fruit trees scattered around campus.
The garden is tended by student, faculty, and staff volunteers, and all of the produce is free for students to pick.
We also work with the City of Azusa to offer beginning food gardening workshops and youth gardening club to the surrounding community.
We’re currently working on two research projects: evaluating non-insecticidal strategies for managing aphids in brassicas in the home and community garden and developing a salsa pepper that is well-suited to our microclimate and doesn’t require supplemental shade in the late summer.
