Home – - California Native Garden Foundation Who We Are The purpose of the California Native Garden Foundation CNGF is to collaborate with stakeholders to build a network of carbonneutral urban land use models that will demonstrate to others that local solutions can solve the four most critical issues of our time The Global Climate Emergency the Ecological Crisis the Soil Crisis and Nature Deficit Disorder among youth. Our goals are to teach all citizens of the world the skills to create regenerative urban food systems protect ecosystems services build healthy soils and sequester carbon. Read more about who we are. What We Do CNGF Initiatives Lab for NatureBased Urban Living The Lab for NatureBased Urban Living is a model for future land use.