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The Westminster Ave. Elementary garden is one part of a huge transformative effort to green the entire school’s campus. What started as a 2,400 square foot plot of land was quickly outgrown and the garden is now around 6,000 sq. feet in size and looking to add another 6,000 feet of planting space.

The garden is open to the students throughout the day and all students and there are all sorts of crops for them to sample. The garden has grown strawberries, blueberries, potatoes, squash, tomatoes, peppers, beans, herbs, flowers, pumpkins and has both fig and citrus trees.

The garden has also benefitted from community involvement as huge numbers of parents and civic minded neighbors come out and help at each of the work day parties hosted by the garden.

Westminster Avenue Elementary School
1010 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice, CA 90291-3312
(310) 392-3041
www.lausd.net/Westminster_Ave_EL/Westminster_Community/Home.html

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The Westminster garden lines the streets of Venice, providing locals with a view of its fruits, vegetables and plants. This photo shows the garden undergoing seasonal construction.

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From this view of the garden, one can clearly see the progress made over the last year, with funding, donations and hard work.

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Mentor Rosario Dawson plants a new tree with the students at Westminter during a big tree planting event (April 2011).

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Rosario also showed off her hoola hoop skills!

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Mentor Rosario Dawson plants a new tree with the students at Westminter during a big tree planting event (April 2011).

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Mentor Rosario Dawson plants a new tree with the students at Westminter during a big tree planting event (April 2011).

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Rosario also showed off her hoola hoop skills!

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Rosario Dawson plants a tree with the students at Westminster Avenue Elementary School in Spring 2010. She later comes back to see its progress.