Here's an excerpt from the Los Angeles Garden Council website. You can read more at www.lagardencouncil.org.
Speak out to legalize gardening in R1 zone
Free Your Garden!! In 1946, a Los Angeles municipal code known as the Truck Gardening Ordinance was written to allow the growing of vegetables in a residential (R1) zone for sale off-site. What this means, however, is that it is technically prohibited for city dwellers in R1 zones to grow fruits, nuts, flowers or seedlings and sell them off-site - at local farmers’ markets for example.
Happily, on July 8th, 2009, Council President Eric Garcetti introduced a motion to explore allowing “the cultivation of flowers, fruits, nuts or vegetables defined as the product of any tree, vine or plant, and that these products be allowed for use on-site or sale off-site.” This positive move needs support, and lots of it! The LACGC and some of our urban farming friends call this the Food & Flowers Freedom Act. Please take a moment to support the Food & Flowers Freedom Act by writing to your Los Angeles City Councilmember. Tell her/him you want to support urban farming in Los Angeles. Tell her/him you want the Planning Department to expedite their work and propose ways to fully-legalize urban farming in Los Angeles. Please cc Council President Eric Garcetti and send an email copy to Urban Farming Advocates – Los Angeles at gdake@pacbell.net This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it To find out who is your local councilmember, go to this link: http://lacity.org/lacity/YourGovernment/CityCouncil/index.htm.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Academy Award Nominee Best Documentary Feature : The Garden
"It's tempting to call "The Garden" a story of innocence and experience,
of evil corrupting paradise, but that would be doing a disservice to
the fascinating complexities of a classic Los Angeles conflict and an excellent documentary
that does them full justice."
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Imagine if John Steinbeck rewrote the script for 'Chinatown'."
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
"The Garden" has all the elements of a John Sayles drama: hard-working immigrants, self-serving politicians, a greedy land developer and Daryl Hannah. Yet this intricate and compelling documentary about the tug of war over a 14-acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles paints a portrait of American politics not even Mr. Sayles could render more saddening.
Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times
The Garden
A Film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
THE GARDEN DVD WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK!
Tons of Extras
-Feature-length commentary track with filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy, farmer and activist Tezozomoc, and co-producers Vivianne Nacif and Dominique Derrenger
-Back to the Garden: extended scenes, protests, and historical perspectives
-Post screening Q/A with filmmakers, farmers, Daryl Hannah and more
-Director interview with film critic David Poland (Movie City News)
-Optional English and Spanish subtitles. Closed Captioning.
-and more
of evil corrupting paradise, but that would be doing a disservice to
the fascinating complexities of a classic Los Angeles conflict and an excellent documentary
that does them full justice."
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Imagine if John Steinbeck rewrote the script for 'Chinatown'."
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
"The Garden" has all the elements of a John Sayles drama: hard-working immigrants, self-serving politicians, a greedy land developer and Daryl Hannah. Yet this intricate and compelling documentary about the tug of war over a 14-acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles paints a portrait of American politics not even Mr. Sayles could render more saddening.
Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times
The Garden
A Film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
THE GARDEN DVD WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK!
Tons of Extras
-Feature-length commentary track with filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy, farmer and activist Tezozomoc, and co-producers Vivianne Nacif and Dominique Derrenger
-Back to the Garden: extended scenes, protests, and historical perspectives
-Post screening Q/A with filmmakers, farmers, Daryl Hannah and more
-Director interview with film critic David Poland (Movie City News)
-Optional English and Spanish subtitles. Closed Captioning.
-and more
Eat in & Harvest Celebration @ Milagro Allegro Garden
Please mark your calendars for a community "Eat-In" (or a Potluck with a Purpose) and Harvest Celebration at the Milagro Allegro Community Garden on Labor Day, September 7th at 4pm.
This Eat-In is one of over 200 coordinated across the country and 7 in Los Angeles as part of Slow Food USAs "National Time For Lunch" campaign, aimed at reforming the National School Lunch Program under the Child Nutrition Act.
The Child Nutrition Act is the federal legislation that governs the school lunch program and is up for reauthorization later this year by Congress. We can do better for our kids!
This event has a two-fold purpose:
* to raise awareness among legislators about the important and far-reaching effects of school lunches and encouraging them to make children's health a priority
* to celebrate the first ever harvest (YEAH!) with Milagro Allegro gardeners just 3 months after our garden's opening
Bring your family and friends; come and get to know your neighbors and... eat for a good cause!
Drum performance by the Taiko Drum Center of Los Angeles and the jazz music by Seabreeze.
This event is co-sponsored by Whole Foods Arroyo Parkway, Homegirl Cafe and the USC Childhood Obesity Research Center.
When: Labor Day, September 7th 2009 at 4pm
Where: Milagro Allegro Community Garden
115 S. Ave 56 Los Angeles, CA 90042
One block SE of Figueroa, behind the Highland Theater
What: Enjoy fresh food from local chefs and neighbors
Listen to live music and meet community leaders
Lobby for reform to the Child Nutrition Act
Please bring: A simple, fresh, homemade dish to share
A real (non-disposable) plate, silverware, and cup
This Eat-In is one of over 200 coordinated across the country and 7 in Los Angeles as part of Slow Food USAs "National Time For Lunch" campaign, aimed at reforming the National School Lunch Program under the Child Nutrition Act.
The Child Nutrition Act is the federal legislation that governs the school lunch program and is up for reauthorization later this year by Congress. We can do better for our kids!
This event has a two-fold purpose:
* to raise awareness among legislators about the important and far-reaching effects of school lunches and encouraging them to make children's health a priority
* to celebrate the first ever harvest (YEAH!) with Milagro Allegro gardeners just 3 months after our garden's opening
Bring your family and friends; come and get to know your neighbors and... eat for a good cause!
Drum performance by the Taiko Drum Center of Los Angeles and the jazz music by Seabreeze.
This event is co-sponsored by Whole Foods Arroyo Parkway, Homegirl Cafe and the USC Childhood Obesity Research Center.
When: Labor Day, September 7th 2009 at 4pm
Where: Milagro Allegro Community Garden
115 S. Ave 56 Los Angeles, CA 90042
One block SE of Figueroa, behind the Highland Theater
What: Enjoy fresh food from local chefs and neighbors
Listen to live music and meet community leaders
Lobby for reform to the Child Nutrition Act
Please bring: A simple, fresh, homemade dish to share
A real (non-disposable) plate, silverware, and cup
Thank You!
Thanks so much for another fantastic event!!! Throw some tomatoes in the air for Adam and Tracy Schell & Seeing Thingz!!!
We hope you make it out to Eagle Rock for this coming Sunday's event!
Also, check out our interview for "Morning Edition" on KCRW. It will air Monday, Aug 25 @ 6 and 8am.
We hope you make it out to Eagle Rock for this coming Sunday's event!
Also, check out our interview for "Morning Edition" on KCRW. It will air Monday, Aug 25 @ 6 and 8am.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Aug 16th- Tomato Rhapsody! Italian Potluck, book reading and music!
RocknRoll Community Garden next Sunday Garden Party....! Hope to see you there!
Sunday August 16th - @ The Secret Garden of Schell
Italian Dinner Garden Potluck and reading w/ Adam Schell - yogi and Author of Tomato Rhapsody
http://www.adamschell.com/
Live Music by Seeing Thingz
www.myspace.com/seeingthingz
Begins promptly at 5pm - til 7pm
539 N. Alta Vista Blvd., LA, 90036
Italian Dinner Garden Potluck!
Please bring a delicious, tomatoe-y dishes!
Need recipe ideas? Check Adam's site!:
http://www.adamschell.com/recipes/
PLEASE RSVP!!!
This is a private location.
$5 - Suggested Donation
Garden lovelies! We are currently seeking volunteers to help out with future parties and projects! Please contact us if you feel you can join the team! : resistanceisfertilela@gmail.
Sustainable lovers! Please bring drinking glasses to donate to RocknRoll Community Garden parties! Let's keep it green, darlings!
RocknRoll Community Garden is currently working with a number of properties and seeking new properties to create a Communal Urban Rooftop Farming Community in Echo Park and Silver Lake. RnR CG provides weekly seasonal series of live music and lectures, integrating education, activism and community with beauty and art. resistanceisfertilela@gmail.com
- Love & Sustainable Living,
RocknRoll Community Garden
Tomato Rhapsody
A Fable of Love, Lust & Forbidden Fruit
by Adam Schell
http://www.adamschell.com
From Publishers Weekly
From the very beginning of Schell's debut novel, a would-be Shakespearean fable set in a 16th-century Tuscan village, food lust takes center stage. While cruel-hearted olive tycoon Giuseppe and his underling, Benito, forage for truffles, the Jewish farmer Davido worships the tomato plants on his farm: the plant's fragrance... transcended his olfactory organs to purify his heart and cleanse his mind. When the new priest allows Davido's love apples into town for the first time, life starts to get complicated. For one, the stepdaughter of our villain, Giuseppe, falls for the already betrothed Davido—an outcast besides, due to his station and religion. Bawdy hijinks coded in ribald Italian reach a climax at the village's Feast of the Drunken Saint donkey race, a jarring spin on Shakespeare's more tawdry rhymes. Attempts at a similarly Shakespearean cast of characters (the novel opens with an actual cast of characters) instead result in a silly collection of one-dimensional characters who keep the tale moving until the fate of our star-crossed lovers, and of tomato sauce, are predictably resolved. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
“[A] delectable debut.... Schell displays the finesse of a master chef as he spices up the story with a delicious array of humorous subplots.”—Booklist
Seeing Thingz
GWENDOLINE, DANIEL DAY, DOUG TOWNSLEY, DAVID RODGERS
www.myspace.com/seeingthingz
Don't miss the beautiful freaks. Music that fills your mind with a world of circuses, street corners far and near and eerie beauty, sensual reminisces of times and places you've only dreamed of. Let Seeing Thingz carry you away with their sinuous dynamics and grooves that simmer: Gwendoline sings the imagery, sketching outlines with a haunting, ethereal voice. Daniel Day blends complimentary colors with her and fleshes out the compositions, texturing the songs with gripping vocal counterpoint. Doug Townsley twirls beautiful touches and accents on the guitar and earth colors on the bass while David Rodgers roots the foundation and sends ripples and grooves across the room. "Love Making Music" Xanthia Pink "Quirky soundwaves rumbling through exotic locations" The Seething Times "Hey, where the hell are you from, are you gypsies?" Passing Vagrant Courier. "When I closed my eyes I thought I was in Europe, then I smelled I was in Venice Beach" Local Wag Rag. Transporting places to far away people since 2007.
Sunday August 16th - @ The Secret Garden of Schell
Italian Dinner Garden Potluck and reading w/ Adam Schell - yogi and Author of Tomato Rhapsody
http://www.adamschell.com/
Live Music by Seeing Thingz
www.myspace.com/seeingthingz
Begins promptly at 5pm - til 7pm
539 N. Alta Vista Blvd., LA, 90036
Italian Dinner Garden Potluck!
Please bring a delicious, tomatoe-y dishes!
Need recipe ideas? Check Adam's site!:
http://www.adamschell.com/recipes/
PLEASE RSVP!!!
This is a private location.
$5 - Suggested Donation
Garden lovelies! We are currently seeking volunteers to help out with future parties and projects! Please contact us if you feel you can join the team! : resistanceisfertilela@gmail.
Sustainable lovers! Please bring drinking glasses to donate to RocknRoll Community Garden parties! Let's keep it green, darlings!
RocknRoll Community Garden is currently working with a number of properties and seeking new properties to create a Communal Urban Rooftop Farming Community in Echo Park and Silver Lake. RnR CG provides weekly seasonal series of live music and lectures, integrating education, activism and community with beauty and art. resistanceisfertilela@gmail.com
- Love & Sustainable Living,
RocknRoll Community Garden
Tomato Rhapsody
A Fable of Love, Lust & Forbidden Fruit
by Adam Schell
http://www.adamschell.com
From Publishers Weekly
From the very beginning of Schell's debut novel, a would-be Shakespearean fable set in a 16th-century Tuscan village, food lust takes center stage. While cruel-hearted olive tycoon Giuseppe and his underling, Benito, forage for truffles, the Jewish farmer Davido worships the tomato plants on his farm: the plant's fragrance... transcended his olfactory organs to purify his heart and cleanse his mind. When the new priest allows Davido's love apples into town for the first time, life starts to get complicated. For one, the stepdaughter of our villain, Giuseppe, falls for the already betrothed Davido—an outcast besides, due to his station and religion. Bawdy hijinks coded in ribald Italian reach a climax at the village's Feast of the Drunken Saint donkey race, a jarring spin on Shakespeare's more tawdry rhymes. Attempts at a similarly Shakespearean cast of characters (the novel opens with an actual cast of characters) instead result in a silly collection of one-dimensional characters who keep the tale moving until the fate of our star-crossed lovers, and of tomato sauce, are predictably resolved. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
“[A] delectable debut.... Schell displays the finesse of a master chef as he spices up the story with a delicious array of humorous subplots.”—Booklist
Seeing Thingz
GWENDOLINE, DANIEL DAY, DOUG TOWNSLEY, DAVID RODGERS
www.myspace.com/seeingthingz
Don't miss the beautiful freaks. Music that fills your mind with a world of circuses, street corners far and near and eerie beauty, sensual reminisces of times and places you've only dreamed of. Let Seeing Thingz carry you away with their sinuous dynamics and grooves that simmer: Gwendoline sings the imagery, sketching outlines with a haunting, ethereal voice. Daniel Day blends complimentary colors with her and fleshes out the compositions, texturing the songs with gripping vocal counterpoint. Doug Townsley twirls beautiful touches and accents on the guitar and earth colors on the bass while David Rodgers roots the foundation and sends ripples and grooves across the room. "Love Making Music" Xanthia Pink "Quirky soundwaves rumbling through exotic locations" The Seething Times "Hey, where the hell are you from, are you gypsies?" Passing Vagrant Courier. "When I closed my eyes I thought I was in Europe, then I smelled I was in Venice Beach" Local Wag Rag. Transporting places to far away people since 2007.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Another Great Event!!!!
Thanks to all of you who came out, and special thanks shout out to Jack Neff, Sasha Gransjean, and Mary Tokita!
I'll be uploading a whole bunch of past event pics in the upcoming week.
Come have dinner and wine with us next Sunday at Adam Schell's Garden as we discuss the love affair of the tomatoes!
(RSVP Please!)
I'll be uploading a whole bunch of past event pics in the upcoming week.
Come have dinner and wine with us next Sunday at Adam Schell's Garden as we discuss the love affair of the tomatoes!
(RSVP Please!)
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Free Climate Change & Phenology Workshops
Climate Change and Phenology Workshop
Dates: August 14th, September 10, September 18, and October 1
Time: 9 am - 3 pm
Location: Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, CA
Who should attend?: Teachers, Environmental Educators, Nature Center and Museum Staff, Garden Clubs, Scout Troop Leaders, Scientists, and anyone else who enjoys being outdoors!
Fee: None
Planting the Seed for Citizen Science: Climate Change and Phenology Workshops for Educators and Scientists in Southern California. Have you been wondering about ways to integrate climate change science and education into your classroom or outdoor education & research activities? Come to a free, one-day workshop focused on climate change, citizen science, and phenology (the science of the seasons, such as when a flower blooms in the spring) to find out how!
"Phenology. is perhaps the simplest process in which to track changes in the ecology of species in response to climate change." Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007
Help! Our climate is changing and scientists throughout the country need your assistance!Concerned citizens throughout the country are monitoring the pace of the seasons and contributing to a new national database designed to track the effects of climate change on plants and animals. It's easy to do on your own or with a group of students. Join us at one of our upcoming workshops and learn how you can participate in the project.
The Phenology Stewardship Program at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) is offering four workshops this summer and fall in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (NPS). Educators, scientists, and citizen scientists are invited to attend a day of engaging discussions, hands-on activities, and brainstorming sessions to incorporate phenology monitoring into your scientific or education efforts.
What will you learn at this workshop?
- Botany Basics
- Phenology and its relationship to climate change
- How to integrate phenology and climate change into your classroom
- How to get involved in a national program to help scientists track the
effects of climate change on plants & animals
All workshops will take place 9am-3pm at the Santa Monica Mountains NRA Headquarters in Thousand Oaks and will include an afternoon field trip to the Satwiwa Native American Culture Center.
Lunch will be provided.
Choose one of the following dates: August 14 September 10 September 18 October 1
Space is limited, please RSVP to:
Kate Eschelbach (USFWS Education & Outreach Specialist):
Kate_Eschelbach@fws.gov or (805)644-1766
If you have any questions, please contact Kate or the workshop instructors:
Dr. Susan Mazer (UCSB): mazer@lifesci.ucsb.edu or (805)893-8011
Brian Haggerty (UCSB): haggerty@lifesci.ucsb.edu or (805)893-8066
Dates: August 14th, September 10, September 18, and October 1
Time: 9 am - 3 pm
Location: Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Thousand Oaks, CA
Who should attend?: Teachers, Environmental Educators, Nature Center and Museum Staff, Garden Clubs, Scout Troop Leaders, Scientists, and anyone else who enjoys being outdoors!
Fee: None
Planting the Seed for Citizen Science: Climate Change and Phenology Workshops for Educators and Scientists in Southern California. Have you been wondering about ways to integrate climate change science and education into your classroom or outdoor education & research activities? Come to a free, one-day workshop focused on climate change, citizen science, and phenology (the science of the seasons, such as when a flower blooms in the spring) to find out how!
"Phenology. is perhaps the simplest process in which to track changes in the ecology of species in response to climate change." Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007
Help! Our climate is changing and scientists throughout the country need your assistance!Concerned citizens throughout the country are monitoring the pace of the seasons and contributing to a new national database designed to track the effects of climate change on plants and animals. It's easy to do on your own or with a group of students. Join us at one of our upcoming workshops and learn how you can participate in the project.
The Phenology Stewardship Program at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) is offering four workshops this summer and fall in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (NPS). Educators, scientists, and citizen scientists are invited to attend a day of engaging discussions, hands-on activities, and brainstorming sessions to incorporate phenology monitoring into your scientific or education efforts.
What will you learn at this workshop?
- Botany Basics
- Phenology and its relationship to climate change
- How to integrate phenology and climate change into your classroom
- How to get involved in a national program to help scientists track the
effects of climate change on plants & animals
All workshops will take place 9am-3pm at the Santa Monica Mountains NRA Headquarters in Thousand Oaks and will include an afternoon field trip to the Satwiwa Native American Culture Center.
Lunch will be provided.
Choose one of the following dates: August 14 September 10 September 18 October 1
Space is limited, please RSVP to:
Kate Eschelbach (USFWS Education & Outreach Specialist):
Kate_Eschelbach@fws.gov or (805)644-1766
If you have any questions, please contact Kate or the workshop instructors:
Dr. Susan Mazer (UCSB): mazer@lifesci.ucsb.edu or (805)893-8011
Brian Haggerty (UCSB): haggerty@lifesci.ucsb.edu or (805)893-8066
SwanSong for the Lawn
Learn to Turn Lawns into Gardens -with Larry Santoyo & Friends
10am - 4pm | Saturday & Sunday Aug 15th & 16th | Santa Monica, CA | $28 /per day | RSVP swansongforthelawn@earthflow.com
Join for one or both days...
EarthFlow Design Works' 10 year s of helping homeowners convert their Lawns into Gardens continues: All in one weekend!
Learn how to transform a water-guzzling lawn into a garden paradise complete with spiraling pathways, food forest with edible plants, medicinals, natives, Mediterranean, subtropicals -and plenty of bird, bee and butterfly attracting flowers too...
Get dirty, build a garden and learn the basics of sustainable landscaping, drip irrigation, permaculture, Food Forestry and sustainable living with one of the West coast’s leading and most experienced Permaculture Design Planning & Design firms, EarthFlow Design Works http://www.earthflow.com
“...Lawns cover more than 50,000 square miles of American soil and consume more fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide than all chemicals used in food related agriculture...”
Urgent calls to reduce consumer water use make headlines daily and farmers are concerned that sufficient water for crops is becoming increasingly scarce. Replacing lawns with gardens makes sense from any angle. Whether you’re a homeowner tired of mowing grass and paying huge water bills, a foodie who wants to become a "grow-your-own gourmet", or a concerned citizen who wants to learn more about food security, this community workshop will expand your knowledge and skills.
Interested in learning how??
RSVP -ASAP!! swansongforthelawn@earthflow.com or Register Online here http://earthflow.com/swansong.php for the workshop
10am - 4pm | Saturday & Sunday Aug 15th & 16th | Santa Monica, CA | $28 /per day | RSVP swansongforthelawn@earthflow.com
Join for one or both days...
EarthFlow Design Works' 10 year s of helping homeowners convert their Lawns into Gardens continues: All in one weekend!
Learn how to transform a water-guzzling lawn into a garden paradise complete with spiraling pathways, food forest with edible plants, medicinals, natives, Mediterranean, subtropicals -and plenty of bird, bee and butterfly attracting flowers too...
Get dirty, build a garden and learn the basics of sustainable landscaping, drip irrigation, permaculture, Food Forestry and sustainable living with one of the West coast’s leading and most experienced Permaculture Design Planning & Design firms, EarthFlow Design Works http://www.earthflow.com
“...Lawns cover more than 50,000 square miles of American soil and consume more fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide than all chemicals used in food related agriculture...”
Urgent calls to reduce consumer water use make headlines daily and farmers are concerned that sufficient water for crops is becoming increasingly scarce. Replacing lawns with gardens makes sense from any angle. Whether you’re a homeowner tired of mowing grass and paying huge water bills, a foodie who wants to become a "grow-your-own gourmet", or a concerned citizen who wants to learn more about food security, this community workshop will expand your knowledge and skills.
Interested in learning how??
RSVP -ASAP!! swansongforthelawn@earthflow.com or Register Online here http://earthflow.com/swansong.php for the workshop
FREE California Friendly Landscape Workshops
For LADWP Customers
Learn effective ways to care for your lawn and conserve water through low maintenance, affordable landscaping practices.
Workshop Dates and Locations
Saturday, August 8
Baldwin Hills
4030 Crenshaw Blvd.
Saturday, August 15
Van Nuys
14401 Saticoy St., Bldg. #3
Saturday, August 22
Downtown -- Fashion District
1350 S. Wall St.
Saturday, August 29
West Los Angeles
1350 Sepulveda Blvd.
All workshops are from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Free parking available. Class space is limited.
To RSVP, email LADWP or call (800) 544-4498 and press "5."
Learn effective ways to care for your lawn and conserve water through low maintenance, affordable landscaping practices.
Workshop Dates and Locations
Saturday, August 8
Baldwin Hills
4030 Crenshaw Blvd.
Saturday, August 15
Van Nuys
14401 Saticoy St., Bldg. #3
Saturday, August 22
Downtown -- Fashion District
1350 S. Wall St.
Saturday, August 29
West Los Angeles
1350 Sepulveda Blvd.
All workshops are from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Free parking available. Class space is limited.
To RSVP, email LADWP or call (800) 544-4498 and press "5."
Lower Los Angeles River Watershed Stakeholders
Compton Gateway: Symposium on Creekside Community Development.
The conference will discuss the interests of stakeholders at the large development area that contains the Artesia Blue Line Station, Gateway Center, and the Crystal Casino. The conference will identify some community priorities for the site, and for the region, while acknowledging the complicated economic development, habitat restoration, and transportation issues that are present. This conference will explore an excellent case-study for creekside development sites all over the world.
The conference will be held on September 15 and 16, 2009. The cost of the conference is $60 ($45 before August 14). Scholarships are available.
To view an agenda and register for this conference, visit:
http://ucanr.org/comptoncreeksymposium
The conference will discuss the interests of stakeholders at the large development area that contains the Artesia Blue Line Station, Gateway Center, and the Crystal Casino. The conference will identify some community priorities for the site, and for the region, while acknowledging the complicated economic development, habitat restoration, and transportation issues that are present. This conference will explore an excellent case-study for creekside development sites all over the world.
The conference will be held on September 15 and 16, 2009. The cost of the conference is $60 ($45 before August 14). Scholarships are available.
To view an agenda and register for this conference, visit:
http://ucanr.org/comptoncreeksymposium
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Sunday August 9th - 5pm
Sunday August 9th - @ Jardin Del Rio - Elysian Park Community Garden
Live Music by Sasha Gransjean
Talk by Jack Neff of "South Central Farmers"
and Chi Quong Breathing Technique Class "Relaxation & Mind Intent: The Primary Tool of All Life Forms"
Riverdale @ Crystal Street
$5 - Suggested Donation
Live Music by Sasha Gransjean
Talk by Jack Neff of "South Central Farmers"
and Chi Quong Breathing Technique Class "Relaxation & Mind Intent: The Primary Tool of All Life Forms"
Riverdale @ Crystal Street
$5 - Suggested Donation
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Art & Gardening - Sunday Aug 2nd - 5-7pm
RRCG Sunday Garden Party Series!
Art & Gardening
@ Fountain Community Garden
Live Music by Odious Ari & The Syphilitic Syncopaths.
Talks by Alex Alferov, Maria Massa and Joeseph Prichard of Fountain Community Garden.
$5 suggested donation.
Garden lovelies! We are currently seeking volunteers to help out with future parties and projects! Please contact us if you feel you can help out! : resistanceisfertilela@gmail.
Also, Saturday, August 1st, our friends - NightHawks LA - are having a wonderful art and music party! 9pm-1am @ Where Lounge 1519 Griffith Park Blvd., 90026. $10 Cover.
NightHawksLA
Sustainable lovers! Please bring drinking glasses to donate to RocknRoll Community Garden parties! Let's keep it green, darlings!
RocknRoll Community Garden is currently working with a number of properties to create a Communal Urban Rooftop Community in Echo Park and Silver Lake. RnR CG also provides weekly seasonal series of live music and lectures, integrating education, activism and community with beauty and art. resistanceisfertilela@gmail.com m
Sustainable living friends unite!
RocknRoll Community Garden is working diligently towards getting our Communal Rooftop Farm off the ground.
Please note that Sunday Garden Party events are an attempt at fund raising for this purpose.
The suggested donation entrance fee for all events is $5.
We look forward to seeing you at the next Sunday event!
- Love & Sustainable Living,
resistanceisfertileLA
Art & Gardening
@ Fountain Community Garden
Live Music by Odious Ari & The Syphilitic Syncopaths.
Talks by Alex Alferov, Maria Massa and Joeseph Prichard of Fountain Community Garden.
$5 suggested donation.
Garden lovelies! We are currently seeking volunteers to help out with future parties and projects! Please contact us if you feel you can help out! : resistanceisfertilela@gmail.
Also, Saturday, August 1st, our friends - NightHawks LA - are having a wonderful art and music party! 9pm-1am @ Where Lounge 1519 Griffith Park Blvd., 90026. $10 Cover.
NightHawksLA
Sustainable lovers! Please bring drinking glasses to donate to RocknRoll Community Garden parties! Let's keep it green, darlings!
RocknRoll Community Garden is currently working with a number of properties to create a Communal Urban Rooftop Community in Echo Park and Silver Lake. RnR CG also provides weekly seasonal series of live music and lectures, integrating education, activism and community with beauty and art. resistanceisfertilela@gmail.com m
Sustainable living friends unite!
RocknRoll Community Garden is working diligently towards getting our Communal Rooftop Farm off the ground.
Please note that Sunday Garden Party events are an attempt at fund raising for this purpose.
The suggested donation entrance fee for all events is $5.
We look forward to seeing you at the next Sunday event!
- Love & Sustainable Living,
resistanceisfertileLA
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Sharing is Caring
Great little post about the real price of buying books online or from the big boxchains.
Taming the Prickly Pear Cactus NPR.
Environmentally Friendly Almost Townhouses in Eagle Rock.
Rooftop Farming!!!!!!! One day LA - you too shall have bountiful rooftops!
Community Gardening Awareness Month August gets even hotter.
The Buzz
Taming the Prickly Pear Cactus NPR.
Environmentally Friendly Almost Townhouses in Eagle Rock.
Rooftop Farming!!!!!!! One day LA - you too shall have bountiful rooftops!
Community Gardening Awareness Month August gets even hotter.
The Buzz
July 26th
Screening of "The Garden,” the Academy Award-nominated documentary about the closure of LA’s South Central Farms by Scott Hamilton Kennedy. (For more about the film: http://www.blackvalleyfilms.com/) Lecture by Pedra Furmal. Live Music by The Straights. Where Gallery, 1519 Griffith Park Blvd, Echo Park/LA, CA 90026 (cross street: Sunset).
5-6 Lecture
6-7:30 - Screening
7:30-8 - Q&A
8-9 - Live Music by The Straights
Stick around b/c at 9 - Open Mic!
5-6 Lecture
6-7:30 - Screening
7:30-8 - Q&A
8-9 - Live Music by The Straights
Stick around b/c at 9 - Open Mic!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
July 19 - 7pm - Sunday FunDay
Dear Friends!
Come out and join us this Sunday (July 19) @ Milagro Allegro Community Garden in Highland Park. Music starts @7pm!
Live Music by Motel (Blake Hammon)
Guest Speakers
Film Screening
Bring your family and friends, food to share, blankets, pillows and comfortable clothes for this lovely outdoor event!
Garden Location: 115 S. Ave 56, LA 90042
One block SE of Figueroa Behind the Highland Theater
Info: www.hpgarden.org 323-256-7122
Blake Hammon is an LA based singer songwriter.
After dumping miles of noise onto four track cassettes as a member of Boston based das kitchen, Blake headed west and put down the casiotone + delay for an acoustic guitar, a conduit for totemic animals, emotion, and observation to emit.
Sound can be found
myspace.com/hourlyratesavailable
http://www.daskitchen.com/motel/motel.html
Speakers Nichole Gatto and Mary Tokita will do a Community Gardening 101 presentation.
Nichole will begin with an overview of her own journey to build Milagro Allegra; Mary will expand a bit into the basic elements needed for community gardens, including funding, location, design, water access, insurance, organizational structure and some of the many organizations we work with to help folks build their projects all across LA.
Come out and join us this Sunday (July 19) @ Milagro Allegro Community Garden in Highland Park. Music starts @7pm!
Live Music by Motel (Blake Hammon)
Guest Speakers
Film Screening
Bring your family and friends, food to share, blankets, pillows and comfortable clothes for this lovely outdoor event!
Garden Location: 115 S. Ave 56, LA 90042
One block SE of Figueroa Behind the Highland Theater
Info: www.hpgarden.org 323-256-7122
Blake Hammon is an LA based singer songwriter.
After dumping miles of noise onto four track cassettes as a member of Boston based das kitchen, Blake headed west and put down the casiotone + delay for an acoustic guitar, a conduit for totemic animals, emotion, and observation to emit.
Sound can be found
myspace.com/hourlyratesavailable
http://www.daskitchen.com/motel/motel.html
Speakers Nichole Gatto and Mary Tokita will do a Community Gardening 101 presentation.
Nichole will begin with an overview of her own journey to build Milagro Allegra; Mary will expand a bit into the basic elements needed for community gardens, including funding, location, design, water access, insurance, organizational structure and some of the many organizations we work with to help folks build their projects all across LA.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
July 12 (that's today!) 5pm - Garden Party
5pm.
El Taller.
224 Glendale Blvd.
Learn to Make Your Own Kombucha.
Music by Dave the Destroyer.
$5 Suggested Donation.
Bring a glass jar and take some culture home with you.
El Taller.
224 Glendale Blvd.
Learn to Make Your Own Kombucha.
Music by Dave the Destroyer.
$5 Suggested Donation.
Bring a glass jar and take some culture home with you.
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