Garden Farms, CA

Garden Farms is a census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California. The 2020 census counted 449 residents. Garden Farms sits at an elevation of 955 feet. Garden Farms was developed in 1918 on land purchased from Rancho Santa Margarita by Edward Gardner Lewis, who planned the farms to supply produce to Atascadero. The through line in Garden Farms is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Garden Farms makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. The recession after World War I intervened, and the plan failed.