Edible Origins began with a simple observation: the places where people spend their days — schools, hospitals, workplaces, neighborhoods — are exactly where food should be growing.

Founded by Denà Brummer, a chef and food systems strategist whose work spans culinary arts, public health, urban agriculture, and education, Edible Origins has grown from a solo practice into a team delivering garden design, installation, education, and Food is Medicine programming across Los Angeles County.

Today our work reaches from the Garden of Hope at The City of Hope to high school farm labs in the San Gabriel Valley.

What makes us different is the through-line. Most landscape companies stop at installation. Most education nonprofits don't build. We do both — because a garden only changes a community when someone designs it well, builds it right, keeps it alive, and teaches people what it's for.