{"id":313784,"date":"2026-05-13T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313784\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:21:17","slug":"westminster-opens-its-first-community-garden-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/313784\/","title":{"rendered":"Westminster opens its first community garden \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Members<\/p>\n

Members of the community and city officials check out the newly-opened Cherry St. Community Garden in Westminster following a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Tanner<\/p>\n

Tanner Dodge of Westminster and his daughter, Everleigh Dodge, 7, tend to their plot in the new Cherry St. Community Garden following a ribbon cutting ceremony that officially opened the garden in Westminster on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Olive<\/p>\n

Olive Goch of Westminster prunes a tomato plant in his plot at the newly-opened Cherry St. Community Garden during a ribbon cutting ceremony in Westminster on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Tania<\/p>\n

Tania Bambridge of Westminster tends to her garden plot in the new Cherry St. Community Garden following a ribbon cutting ceremony that officially opened the garden in Westminster on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Westminster<\/p>\n

Westminster Mayor Chi Charlie Nguyen is joined by other city officials, and local gardeners, as they cut a ribbon to officially open the new Cherry St. Community Garden in Westminster on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Carlos<\/p>\n

Carlos Manzo, left, City Council-member for Westminster\u2019s District 2, and Mayor Chi Charlie Nguyen, welcome guests and city officials to a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Cherry St. Community Garden in Westminster on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Lance<\/p>\n

Lance Williams of Westminster uses a claw tool to aerate the soil in his plot in the new Cherry St. Community Garden during a ribbon cutting ceremony that officially opened the garden in Westminster on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"Westminster<\/p>\n

Westminster Mayor Chi Charlie Nguyen welcome guests and city officials to a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Cherry St. Community Garden in Westminster on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Members of the community and city officials check out the newly-opened Cherry St. Community Garden in Westminster following a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Westminster on Tuesday, May 12, celebrated a new place for residents to grow.<\/p>\n

Grow fruits and vegetables, that is.<\/p>\n

The Cherry Street Community Gardens have opened, a first for the city, using a vacant residential lot on the street near Westminster Boulevard.<\/p>\n

The 6,000-square-foot lot has been gated and outfitted with 4-by-4-foot and 4-by-8-foot raised beds for community members to create their own small gardens. The city has been taking applications, and those who have been assigned plots must pay $50 a year for the smaller spaces and $100 for the larger.<\/p>\n

Find out more on the city\u2019s website, westminster-ca.gov<\/a>, under the community services department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the community and city officials check out the newly-opened Cherry St. Community Garden in Westminster following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,179,23,611,6737],"class_list":["post-313784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-community","tag-local-news","tag-orange-county","tag-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}