Community Garden Support

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Community Gardens and Urban Farms are excellent opportunities to implement regenerative agriculture and offer direct community benefits. Whether you are new to gardening or have had many seasons in
the soil, we are committed to supporting your project or helping you plant an idea of how to start your project. Our Sustainable Agriculture Team works with community gardens in different stages of development and supports projects by:

Providing gardens with technical support
Coordinating workshops
Offering in-kind support and staff work days
Accessing grants and creating funding opportunities for community gardens in our region
Connecting community gardens with additional partners who can support their projects

Huerta del Valle and IERCD

Huerta del Valle, a community garden in Ontario has been a close partner of IERCD for 5 years. We have successfully received grants in partnership together and IERCD has also funded their projects and staff through our past Special Projects Fund program. IERCD staff also support their open market, CSA Program, and organize workshops.

Learn more and visit their website below!

Master Gardeners and IERCD

Since 1981, the University of California Master Gardener Program has been extending UC research-based information about home horticulture, pest management, and sustainable landscape practices to California residents. UC Master Gardeners offer volunteer services and outreach to the general public in more than 50 California counties. The primary focuses of the UC Master Gardener Program in San Bernardino County are:

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To encourage the public to practice sustainable landscaping (efficient irrigation, composting, etc.)
To foster gardeners to provide fresh produce for their families with edible gardening
To promote healthy living and healthy communities through home gardening

The IERCD partners with the San Bernardino County Master Gardeners to reach residents within the IERCD service area through Farmer’s Markets, email and phone helplines, workshops, information booths, and hands-on demonstrations at community and school gardens.

Please fill out our interest form on the Sustainable Agriculture homepage if you are interested in scheduling a free workshop.

Website Accessibility Policy

Inland Empire Resource Conservation District is fully committed to providing accessible facilities, elements and channels of communication to all members of the public. As part of this commitment, Inland Empire Resource Conservation District has a policy of providing an accessible website compatible with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and commercial screen reading software. All features of the website are coded to allow individuals with vision and other impairments to understand and use the website to the same degree as someone without disabilities. We welcome feedback and can often resolve issues in a timely manner if they arise.

If you need any special assistance or accommodations:

Call us at (909) 799-7407

Ongoing Compliance Information

Compliance Officer

Inland Empire Resource Conservation District has designated a compliance officer for website disability-related accommodations. The compliance officer has received training in website accessibility and updates the site in accordance with those best practices. Contact our accessibility officer to report an issue.

Compliance Procedures and Reports

In addition to testing with users with a wide range of disabilities and coding our website to WCAG standards, Inland Empire Resource Conservation District regularly scans its website to ensure ongoing compliance, and makes timely changes to any inaccessible changes, if any are found.

Linked Documents and Third Parties

Please note that this site may link out to third-party websites, such as state or federal agencies, that do not have accessible content. This site may also include documents provided by third parties included in our agenda packets, for example. While we cannot control the accessibility of content provided by third parties, we are happy to assist any member of the public with reading and accessing content on our site.

See an opportunity for us to improve? Please contact our accessibility officer or call us at (909) 799-7407.

Report a Website Accessibility Issue

We are committed to your ability to access all content, and we will respond to all requests as soon as possible.