Ranch Garden

The Ranch Garden is temporarily closed.

The James P. Folsom Experimental Ranch Garden is an urban agricultural garden that explores and interprets optimal approaches to gardening in our regional ecosystems and climate – the semi-arid landscapes of Southern California. Part classroom and part research lab, the Ranch Garden draws inspiration from Huntington's and the region's agricultural heritage while making connections with gardeners, native plant enthusiasts, urban farmers, landscape professionals, educators, and researchers throughout Southern California.

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Several flowers surround the green Ranch Garden shed

Ranch Garden sign with illustrated pomegranate

Monarch butterfly lands on purple verbena lilacina de la mina

The garden includes a mixture of edible landscapes, where fruit trees mingle with native shrubs, perennial herbs, and reseeding annuals. In the center of the 1.5-acre garden is a traditional vegetable row garden. Some of the original fruit trees within the garden—and in the adjacent mixed oak-fruit forest—came from the South Central Farm, an urban garden in Los Angeles that was razed in 2006. Rescued by the Metabolic Studio, a charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation, the trees were boxed and moved to The Huntington. The Ranch Garden is envisioned as a community resource to help bolster L.A.’s capacity to establish a sustainable and equitable food system.