Ocean View Farms’ annual extravaganza this weekend

The sixth annual Gathering of the Community Gardens is Saturday at Ocean View Farms in Mar Vista, with live music, children’s activities, a free lunch, tours of the garden’s six acres of plots and informal workshops on seed saving, bio-intensive gardening and composting.

Guests also will get a chance to see the renowned (and we do mean renowned) composting facility at the 35-year-old community garden. Ocean View Farms has what is easily the largest and most productive composting installation at any community garden in Southern California.

Though the garden is usually closed to nonmembers, it’s open to the public for the event 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and admission is free. Ocean View Farms is at the intersection of Rose Avenue and Centinela Boulevard, almost directly across from Santa Monica Airport.

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