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Water from the sky helps make things grow! Seed, cultivate and feed your beds now! |
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GrowFriend is a hybrid of community gardening and social networking. It is the safe, easy and fun way for gardeners to find land! |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
  Join us for a fundraising garden sale at Solano Canyon Community Garden on Saturday 13 February from 8:30am-12:00pm. Items include a variety of planters in shapes and sizes generously donated by our friends at windowbox.com. Plants, including fragrant salvia, seeds and tools will also be up for sale. Come early to grab your garden necessities! If you have a donation, contact us or stop by Solano Canyon to drop it off. See you on Saturday!
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
 Many thanks to Don Hodel of the University California Cooperative Extension, who led a hands-on demonstration of pruning techniques at Solano Canyon Community Garden in late January. Thanks, Don and all the participants!
Don taught more than 25 participants how to properly use thinning out and heading off techniques when dealing with fruit trees. Download the UCCE brochure to learn more about pruning. |
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 |
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FOOD FORWARD is an all volunteer grassroots group of Angelenos who care about reconnecting to our food system and making change around urban hunger.
We convene at properties we have been invited to and glean the excess fruit on their trees, donating 100% to local food pantries. Visit Food Forward to participate!
Our current receiving partners are SOVA Community Food and Resource Program, a program of Jewish Family Services, and MEND POVERTY. Combined, they distribute the food we glean to over 30,000 clients a month across Southern California. A project of the LA Community Garden Council. |
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 |
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 To find out who is your local councilmember, go to this link: http://lacity.org/lacity/YourGovernment/CityCouncil/index.htm |
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
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The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation (FTPF) is a nonprofit charity dedicated to planting fruit trees to alleviate world hunger, combat global warming, strengthen communities, and improve the surrounding air, soil, and water.
FTPF is launching a groundbreaking new community fruit tree planting program and is currently accepting applications for 2010 orchard donations. So, if you are part of, or know of a nonprofit, public park, or community garden that would benefit from donated fruit trees, please complete our application form or forward this email to someone at the facility who is authorized to do so. |
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Monday, 20 November 2006 |
 Five months after sheriff's deputies shut down a legendary urban farm in South Los Angeles — removing protesters and plucking celebrities from trees — more than 60 of the farmers have put down new roots in Watts.
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Thursday, 16 November 2006 |
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Get Dirty with us and wear our T-Shirt ... you can get your own and be part of our team.
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Thursday, 05 October 2006 |
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 Seeds germinate fast when the soil is already nice and warm. For delicious, picture-perfect fall crops of spinach, lettuce, peas, kale and broccoli, now’s the time to plant. Here are 4 easy steps to ensure your success.
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Tuesday, 06 June 2006 |
Los Angeles community gardeners enjoy growing many plants that tbey have brought with them from other far-away places. From my old friend Tilly at Sunset Junction grows onions to remind her of her childhood in Germany, to all the savy gardeners who grow nopales for their good taste and easy care, there is a world of growing and cooking to learn about.
Below are a few web resources. If you know another, share it in comments.
Edible Mexican Cacti
Culinary Guide to Mexican Herbs |
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Monday, 12 April 2004 |
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 Community gardens, backyard gardens and urban farms are useful tools in the creation of robust and secure food systems for city residents. See this article from the Community Food Security Coalition.
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