The 2022-2023 Garden Apprenticeship Program

New Faces and New Experiences

This year the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust relaunched our 9-month after school program at John C. Fremont High School in South LA. The Garden Apprenticeship Program (GAP), empowers students to become environmental and health equity advocates and to embrace healthy lifestyles with its environmental and health-focused curriculum. Students develop urban agriculture knowledge, as well as leadership and teamwork skills, and they are exposed to career paths and opportunities they might not have discovered on their own.

One such opportunity is our GAP field trip program. Last November, students took a trip to Bolsa Chica State Beach where they visited the Ecological Reserve and learned about the diverse habitats that exist there, including mudflats, salt marshes and coastal dunes. This winter and spring they will visit Kenneth Hahn State Recreational Area, Eaton Canyon Natural Area and Nature Center and Malibu Creek State Park . In April, they'll learn to surf with Color the Water, an organization dedicated to creating a surf culture around diversity and antiracism.