Chef gardens

Chef Gary Menes of Le Comptoir at his Long Beach garden. Currently he’s growing banana peppers, blueberries, favas, cauliflower, celery root, kohlrabi, Charentais melons, asparagus, corn, beets, lettuce and tomatoes.

Gary Menes with his bin of produce from his Long Beach garden bound for Le Comptoir.

Fresh-picked produce for Le Comptoir in Koreatown, fresh from Gary Menes’ Long Beach garden.

Rows of baby vegetables at Menes’ garden.

This Venice garden is tended by gardener Courtney Guerra and chef Ari Taymor of Alma.

Alma’s Ari Taymor holds some of the harvested produce in his Venice garden plot.

Gardener Courtney Guerra waters seedlings in Venice.

Arugula seedlings in Ari Taymor’s garden in Venice.

Gardener Courtney Guerra waters the grounds of the Venice garden used by Alma’s Ari Taymor.

Red Swiss chard in Taymor’s Venice garden.

Guerra picks edible Mexican marigolds.

Harvested cucumbers from Ari Taymor’s Venice garden.

Young green fennel seeds from Ari Taymor’s Venice garden.

Chef Govind Armstrong of Willie Jane has a garden next to his restaurant in Venice.