Juniper Front Community Garden
Gardener Profiles
Plot 5
Bruce Cunningham
JFCG President - president@jfcg.org
Bruce is a semi retired Field Engineer, and a lifelong gardener and builder. He began his gardening career with his grandparents in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Gardening was a twice a day routine; mornings for weeding, afternoons for harvesting, and picking bugs. There are lots of bugs in Cape, but when caught, they become lots of food for the chickens!
Plot 25
Prudence Horne
JFCG Vice President of Membership - vpmembership@jfcg.org
As a transplant from Boston, I am always I awe that flowers grow in January. I have been a member of JFCG for ages, I can't remember when I joined, but I am so very grateful to have my plot. I tried growing vegetables but a slug in a brussels sprout freaked me out and ever since I focus on the flowers. I look forward to continued gardening with you all!.
Plot 15
Mike Goebel
JFCG Board Member
I have been gardening at the JFCG since 2007. The garden expansion has been a welcomed improvement to JFCG and has brought more people and ideas. I look forward to more improvements and welcome hearing what any new or long-term gardeners alike have to say on how we can facilitate community spirit and improvements to the garden.
Plot 28
Margaret Bezy
JFCG Board Member
I’m an oldie, short and smiley. I garden plot #28 primarily with perennial flowers. I love color. When living in Santa Fe, my husband and I divided the gardening: he took the veggies and I the flowers. I quickly discovered that perennials provided the biggest bang for the buck in both cost and reliability. He built himself a greenhouse to lengthen the growing season. While I just waited and watered. I still love the flowers best. Come on over and visit! I share roots and cuttings!
Plot 31-A
Daved Frerker
JFCG Board Member
Daved is a retired from the Health Care field. As a young son, I grew roses with my dad, eventually graduating to a 40 acre ‘’garden in the Ozarks’’ a few hours from St. Louis. In La Jolla, we lived in a HOA for over 25 years, and had multiple West facing plots and patios on Mt. Soledad. Flowers, bushes, trees, pots, vegetables and a pergola named “La Taverna” where many a bottle was consumed in front of the fireplace! It was paradise on earth! But, alas, it was time to get away from steps and our family moved to Banker’s Hill four years ago.
Plot 39
Larry Dinofrio
JFCG Board Member
Plot 24
Cinda Scalco
JFCG Secretary -
I’ve been a member here since 2017. I’ve also been a past board member, responsible for kickstarting the garden expansion with fellow board member Larry Donofrio.
I have a background in project management. Interior design and construction. My volunteer experience included 8 years with Voices for Children as a court appointed special advocate. I know how to take a volunteer position seriously.
I’ve been a lifelong gardener, having a garden everywhere I’ve lived. I’m just so happy to have plot 24 where I receive sun all day long.
Plot 3
Chris Alba
JFCG Treasurer
Plot 41
Taren
JFCG Board Member
Plot 10
Mandy
I am Mandy; Plot #10 aka The Piccadilly Garden. I am originally from Dallas and lived in the San Francisco Bay area, while working various administrative jobs including working in the Silicon Valley Semi-Conductor world of computers before internet. In 2005 I moved to San Diego and now that I am no longer working, I spend my time volunteering at The San Diego Airport Information Desk, volunteering for San Diego Gleaners, and finding myself on a community theater stage once or twice a year. When it comes to gardening, I am one who garden by instinct and I am inspired by nature's finds, recycling, experimenting with new ways to turn an item into something oher than its original purpose. I do things instinctively and whismically, even utilizing odd looking objects I find along my walks, which is a form of coloring outside the box for me...Freedom.
Thanks for this opportunity to become acquainted.
