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Camarillo Community Gardens President Eileen Mannion (left) helps Isabella Samczyk (right) and her brother Ayden (in back at right) pick snow peas from her garden bed. The garden, which opened in 2009, has a waiting list of 50 people. Group members are seeking a second site due to high demand.

Photo by Joseph A. Garcia, Ventura County Star

Camarillo Community Gardens President Eileen Mannion (left) helps Isabella Samczyk (right) and her brother Ayden (in back at right) pick snow peas from her garden bed. The garden, which opened in 2009, has a waiting list of 50 people. Group members are seeking a second site due to high demand.

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  • Camarillo Community Gardens President Eileen Mannion (left) helps Isabella Samczyk (right) and her brother Ayden (in back at right) pick snow peas from her garden bed. The garden, which opened in 2009, has a waiting list of 50 people. Group members are seeking a second site due to high demand.
  • Camarillo Community Gardens President Eileen Mannion displays kale grown in one of the garden beds.
  • Isabella Samczyk plants flower seeds to grow in a garden bed that her family rents at the Camarillo Community Gardens.
  • Camarillo Community Gardens President Eileen Mannion displays snow peas she grew in her garden bed. The organic garden has been open since fall 2009.
  • Shannon Samczyk straightens up the garden area her family rents at Camarillo Community Gardens. "We've always loved the idea of having our own garden like our grandmothers used to," Samczyk said. She added that she learned from other garden members how to make strawberry jam.

More than two years after it opened, Camarillo's community garden has a waiting list of more than 50 people hoping to gain their own small plot there.

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