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Some Leimert Park residents are teaming up to turn their front lawns into vegetable gardens that the whole community can benefit from.

Print Jamiah Hargins knows the modest frontyard at the corner of Angeles Vista Boulevard and Olympiad Drive like the back of his hand. A military brat who grew up moving from one country to another, he has traversed the yard’s 970 square feet countless times. He and a small team of volunteers spent a month cultivating the land, installing equipment and planting sloping rows of vegetables, including bok choy, Tuscan kale, rainbow chard, red cherry tomatoes, basil and chives. It’s enough to cause people in this View Park neighborhood, including their regular mailman, to gawk at the lush gr...