LEAF is a non-profit organization in Fremont serving Fremont, Newark, Union City, Sunol and Hayward. Our mission is to take positive climate action by educating our community to live sustainably, grow healthy food, and reduce waste. Our mission is achieved through our food gardens and our education programs offered online and onsite.
LEAF Center is a member powered community garden located in Fremont where people can enjoy growing and harvesting their own fresh veggies. Visit our PLANTERS page for more information about how you can grow your own veggies with us! C.R. Stone Garden is both an educational and a philanthropic garden.
LEAF Center is a member powered community garden located in Fremont where people can enjoy growing and harvesting their own fresh veggies. Visit our PLANTERS page for more information about how you can grow your own veggies with us! C.R. Stone Garden is both an educational and a philanthropic garden.
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LEAF was founded in 2008 by a group of Fremont residents under the leadership of Bruce Cates. Together, they had the vision of creating a community garden in the California Nursery Historical Park in Fremont's historic Niles district. LEAF negotiated a lease for half an acre of land with the City of Fremont while raising funds to design and build the community garden.
If you are aligned with our mission to promote healthy and sustainable living, we invite you to become a supporting member of our organization. When you become a member of LEAF, you will receive early access to our plant sales, our monthly newsletter, invitations to virtual events, special promotions, and volunteer opportunities.
At LEAF, we don't want to be the only ones growing. We want you to grow along with us! From sharpening gardening skills at home to impacting our environment on a global scale, we are dedicated to educating the community about how to live increasingly healthy, productive and sustainable lives. Check out the learning opportunities below that we put in place with you as our motivation!
Students for LEAF is one of our focus educational programs designed to nurture young people's interests in environmental conservation, regenerative agriculture, and biological sciences. We want to develop the next generation of leaders to solve the many challenges we are facing such as climate change, food insecurity, water shortage, and pandemics.
Have you ever wanted your own garden but just don't have the space? We knew you were out there, so we made space for you. At LEAF Center, your edible garden awaits! Our community garden is full of planters equipped with automatic drip irrigation and filled with custom soil. Not an experienced gardener?
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Camellia S.
Jun 10, 2019
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Fremont Parent's Nursery School , Group B Feild Trip to LEAF (Local Ecology Agriculture Fremont) The Education Team, Elaine and Cheryl are wonderfully friendly scientists , knowledgeable and dedicated! We highly recommend scheduling a visit and perhaps becoming a member of this wonderful organization. To top it all off, they grow healthy food for donation to the Tri-City Volunteers Food Bank.
They are well prepared and flexible; two of the most important trait needed to create a memorable and fun experience especially for preschoolers. LEAF continues to be a feild trip must for our school
They are well prepared and flexible; two of the most important trait needed to create a memorable and fun experience especially for preschoolers. LEAF continues to be a feild trip must for our school
Irene S.
Jul 25, 2016
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Fremont LEAF Center is a wonderful nonprofit organization that provides a community garden as well as developing greater sustainability and environmental awareness through collaborative teaching, learning and community dialogue about growing healthy food. In addition to growing food for the needy in the community and donating their harvest to organizations like Tri-City Volunteers food bank, LEAF also rents planters for those who want to grow their own food but do not have access to a back yard. LEAF also offers classes on topics ranging from irrigation, herbs, bees, and basic garden maintenance
