Return home inspires plan for Redondo Beach community garden
The Garden of Guadalupe, a neighborhood garden, in the summer of 2020. Photo by Brianna Egan Brianna Egan had to leave Redondo Beach to realize some things about her beloved home city: the general lack of environmental awareness, for example, and the fact that there are 1.4 acres of park space per thousand residents, less than half the average for cities in Los Angeles County. For Egan, 25, the awareness accumulated gradually, through time and travel. Taking classes in public health and environmental health as a biology major at the University of California San Diego got her thinking about the connections between people and the planet. Studying abroad in Costa Rica connected her with people who understand nature not as a place you visit, but as the foundation of life and health. Joining AmeriCorps after college and spending a year working in nutrition education in the schools of Watsonville, California, a farming town in Santa Cruz County, confirmed for her the incalculable benefits of growing food. Three years ago, Egan returned to Redondo Beach and began gardening in her parents’ backyard. She grew sweet potatoes, artichokes, lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, melons, peppers, green…
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