Redondo Beach Community Garden the tip of political iceberg
Brianna Egan, the chair of the Redondo Beach Community Garden Committee (in red sweater), leading a meeting last November at the Hermosa Beach Community Garden. Photo courtesy of Brianna Egan by Rachel Reeves Brianna Egan, 25, scanned her notes as she prepared for her presentation before the Redondo Beach City Council. She was pitching a community garden on city land, something she had been envisioning since returning home after a year volunteering with AmeriCorps, educating kids in rural towns about nutrition. Egan, who’s studying toward a master’s in public health and nutrition at Loma Linda University, planned to talk to the council about how she’d partnered with the South Bay Parkland Conservancy (SBPC), a non-profit whose mission is to create and protect green spaces in the South Bay, and how they’d already received $5,000 from Beach Cities Health District for the project. She’d say she was looking for a place to build a fenced-off garden with rentable plots. She’d estimate her startup costs would be in the ballpark of $53,000. She knew her talking points and her project, inside and out. What she didn’t know was she was stepping into a hornet’s nest. She didn’t know the…
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