'Literally raised in a garden,' community gardener Amber Beeson dies at 40
She was a builder of gardens, where not only plants could grow, but people, too. As a landscape designer and founder of the nonprofit Giving Tree Project, Amber Beeson transformed vacant lots in Bakersfield into community gardens where adults could grow organic vegetables and children could learn about healthy living, healthy eating, and just plain old hard work. Beeson, a former program director at Kern Green, chairwoman of the Community Gardens Committee for Keep Bakersfield Beautiful, and a onetime board member with the Arts Council of Kern, died Thursday after a grueling and very public b...
Source: bakersfield.com