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    VegGarden365 app

    How do you know what to plant when? Here in Southern California we have a year-round growing season.  But that doesn’t mean super-delicious tomatoes every day of the year.  Rather, it means working with the seasons — warm, hot, and…

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    Placemaking with Mark Lakeman – Mar 22, 26-27

    How do you create a neighborhood feel, within a city that is renowned as having been designed and built as “automobile-centric”? Come find out, at an evening with Mark Lakeman, founder of City Repair, Tues Mar 22 …

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    A quick and easy cool-season vegetable garden

    After a rain, the weeds sprout — so quickly that you can almost hear them. What if the green that magically appeared wasn’t weeds, but food plants? Your cool-season vegetable garden can be just that easy! And, this time of…

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    What can crop rotation do for you and your garden?

    Do you need a powerful tool to help you with organic pest control AND maintaining soil fertility in your vegetable garden? Crop rotation means following a conscious system of planting in which related plants are grown in different spots year…

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    Placemaking and City Repair in Los Angeles

    Are you interested in this kind of fun? Here’s a marvelous video about Mark Lakeman’s City Repair work in Portland.  We’re putting together a project in Los Angeles! If you’re interested (or curious), contact the Environmental Change-Makers.  The initial planning…

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    What’s in your El Niño garden?

    Oh, this is the season for leafy greens and root vegetables — and an El Niño year is no exception! They grow plenty of veggies in English gardens and (although we in So Cal may be unaccustomed to it) that’s the…

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    What’s cooking – Jan 9 and 14

    The new kitchen is ready to go, and this month you can enjoy two fabulous cooking classes:  artisan Sourdough Bread, and Soups & Stews.

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    What’s your get-ready-for-rain routine?

    We’re ever hopeful that we’ll get some rain.  Here in L.A., deep into this historic drought, that still remains a big hope! But each time the weather forecasts call for precipitation, I run around doing my routine … garden tools…

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    Seeding the new forest garden

    A forest garden is a garden of perennial plants that produce food.  It is often designed to look “forest-like,” with trees forming a canopy above, and smaller plants creating a “forest floor” effect underneath. As part of the Westchester Community…