A Garden of Wild Solace initiative

Find a garden.
Or bring one to life.

SOLACE helps neighbors find communal gardens, reveal where new gardens are wanted, and turn local interest into a place everyone can grow.

● Your exact location is never shown publicly.

Woman in white walking beside a weathered garden wall
FIELD NOTE / 001GROW
WHERE
YOU ARE.
REDONDO BEACH
CALIFORNIA
THE FOUNDING PILOTBeginning in Redondo Beach.BUILT TO GROW EVERYWHERE ↗

The movement starts here

Start where
you are.

SOLACE / 01
Portrait among large garden leaves in a layered photographic frame

A practice of staying close

Not an escape.
A return.

To the block. To the soil. To the people already here.

The demand map

Make the need
visible.

A missing garden should not be an invisible problem. We group verified requests by area, connect local momentum, and help organizers, partners, and cities see where to act next.

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14REQUESTS
32REQUESTS
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#001
Active garden Garden request
03Gardens mapped
54Verified requests
31Ready to volunteer
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The founding pilot

Garden #001:
Redondo Beach

We are documenting the full journey from the first request to the first shared harvest—finding the people, securing a site, funding the build, and opening the gate.

Gathering interestFinding landFounding teamLaunch partners

HOW DO YOU WANT TO HELP?

My organization can partner
MEET · IN · THE · MIDDLE ·SOONDATE
TO COME

One day. Many gardens.

Meet in
the Middle.

Once a month, participating gardens open their gates on the same day. Neighbors work, learn, share food, and leave their corner of the world more alive than they found it.

Different cities.
One shared ritual.

From interest to open gate

How SOLACE grows.

01

Search

Find active gardens and open community days.

02

Add your voice

Submit a private, verified local request.

03

Find your people

Neighbors volunteer, organize, or offer land.

04

Build together

Make progress and real needs visible.

05

Meet in the middle

Join one shared day of local action.

Build something people can belong to

Fund the next garden—
not another forgettable campaign.

SOLACE works with values-aligned brands, cities, schools, property owners, foundations, and local organizations to turn verified neighborhood demand into durable public benefit.

  • Named local project
  • Community participation
  • Responsible visibility
  • Measurable impact
Become a founding partner ↗

A note from the founder

“I believe solace should not be somewhere we have to escape to find. It can be grown close to home—in a shared patch of earth, through work done side by side.”

Founder · Garden of Wild Solace

Grow where you are

What could grow
where you live?

Search your neighborhood. If a garden is missing, help us make the need impossible to ignore.