Save Yanonali Community Garden!

Don't make the plots smaller

Community gardens are a much needed creative, healthy and nurturing outdoor space. There is no good reason that a city as large and wealthy as SB cannot manage better garden infrastructure and programs for its community members. We need more garden space now more than ever.

Let’s keep our community garden!

More community gardens, not fewer & smaller

Please do not disturb the gardeners from the spots they have built for themselves.

Gardens involve families, senior and children creating Community. Cities with community gardens see increases in cooperation, communication and voting with a decrease in loneliness, depression and crime. Ask every city that has neighborhood gardens and there will be no doubt: Expand our garden to improve our community,

SB needs more gardens -- more food forests -- moire permaculture -- and more local food production!

Diminishing the size of the garden area will significantly reduce the benign but vigilant presence of responsible citizens near the park. Parks are supposed to be community areas that encourage creative recreation and participation. The garden serves as an example to young people of a number of virtues: patience, nurturing, sharing amoung others. Seems like that would make it an important part of a park plan, rather than an afterthought to be diminished because of a failure of imagination.

Our community needs more plots like this! To reduce in size is just not a question!!!

Good morning, I appreciate your Help and Support to save this Garden. As a Community resource these Gardens need to be Cherished and Protected. For some of these Gardners this is their connection to Mother Earth

As a long time Santa Barbara resident, I support the Yanonali gardeners in their effort to preserve their garden spaces, The city should be creating more public gardens and not reducing an existing garden.

I have been fortunate to garden here. A wonderful place with an interesting community of dedicated, kind folks of all walks. We need more community gardens, not fewer.

Save the garden.

Shame on the City of Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara resident

I am a new gardener at Yanonali, receiving my plot just last year. I have invested so much time as well as money to bring the plot back to life. It was full of weeds, missing dirt and hard as clay. I am so disappointed after investing so much and now discovering the city wants to take it away. I do not have yard space for a garden, and this was something so special for me and my family. The city needs to rethink what is important to the community. I see many families with children at the garden, let's keep this amazing resource alive.

If food shortages and supply chain disruptions haven’t proven the need for local (especially community) farms and gardens, hope is dim. We need MORE not less gardens.

Community gardens are important so many ways beyond the obvious...family time, children and adults experiencing success and reaping the direct rewards of their planning and efforts.

Only changes that should be warranted, increase of space for more of this growth. Keep plots the same, upgrade the irrigation, for better water conservation.

Please keep the gardens as they are, or better yet, expand them. Thank you.