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Christina Solis (left) talks with Diane Beeler at the Senior Nutrition Garden.

Photo by Troy Harvey, Ventura County Star

Christina Solis (left) talks with Diane Beeler at the Senior Nutrition Garden.

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  • Christina Solis (left) talks with Diane Beeler at the Senior Nutrition Garden.
  • Christina Solis and Christy and Don Jackson (from left) pull weeds from a garden near FOOD Share in Oxnard recently. Food harvested from the garden goes toward senior meals in the area.
  • Christy Jackson uses a hoe to get rid of weeds in the garden.
  • Sugar snap peas sit behind a protective mesh at the garden.
  • Fennel grows in the Senior Nutrition Garden near FOOD Share in Oxnard.

Despite being attacked by aphids, rabbits and vandals, as well as suffering state budget cutbacks, an innovative gardening project survived a tough 2011 in the fields behind the juvenile justice center on Vineyard Avenue in Oxnard.

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