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The Growing Roots Garden

A community-run urban garden behind Emerson Middle School in Pomona, growing organic food with neighbors for community sharing, school-family grocery pickups, composting and hands-on agricultural education. PlotPal lists The Growing Roots Garden as a community garden in Pomona. The public listing address is 635 Lincoln Avenue, Pomona, CA 91767. The listed steward organization is Growing Roots + Pomona Unified School District. Verified participation information currently includes visit, volunteer, education, communal growing. The approximately one-eighth-acre garden grows food collectively and shares harvests with volunteers and Emerson Middle School students/families through weekly grocery pickups. Volunteers can also bring food scraps for composting. Current garden participation is Thursdays 6–8 p.m., with additional Saturday volunteer days listed by Growing Roots. The organization asks visitors to contact them before showing up. Current verified participation or information links include Volunteer at Growing Roots, Growing Roots. PlotPal last verified source information from Growing Roots — Official Site on 2026-10-04. This public place page keeps verified location and participation context connected to the garden itself, so people can discover the place first and follow its current source information when they are ready to visit or get involved.