The Art of the Edible Landscape, Fall 2015
Is your food garden beautiful? At the Community Garden at Holy Nativity, we pay a lot of attention to aesthetics — as well as to the functional structure of the garden (soil, water, plant selection, maintenance team). This autumn I’ll be…
OvenMaster Training
There are baking skills and there are fire skills. Los Angeles Bread Bakers will soon be scheduling baking classes at the new Westchester Community Oven. (And we’ll have a public “grand opening” celebration sometime in September). But for fire skills,…
Make your own flowerpot ollas
how to make an easy, inexpensive, DIY olla for your garden - using flowerpots
Raised beds vs. Sunken beds
With effusive and glorious terms, the garden catalogs and East Coast garden magazines try to persuade us that “to be a successful vegetable gardener you need raised beds.” Not in Southern California. Consider what is behind those arguments: a drive…
Summer Solstice Open House – Jun 20
Want to learn about all the fun stuff that goes on at the Community Garden at Holy Nativity, and the Holy Nativity campus? On Saturday, June 20, there will be a Summer Solstice Open House across the entire campus. It will…
Name and Shame
We are continuing our series on the 7 Aspects of Divestment from Fossil Fuels, a powerful tool to combat global warming. Name and Shame The Carbon Underground 200 is a list of the 200 worst offenders – the top 100 public…
Move Your Money
Bank of America, Citigroup, and JP Morgan Chase rank as the top-three financiers of mountaintop-removal coal mining and coal-fired power plants in the US, according to a report by the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, and BankTrack. If your organization…
100 Dreams for a Powerdown world
In his blog today, Chris Guillebeau challenges his readers to list 100 dreams: “a completely unedited list of anything you might want to do or have more of in life. It’s like a bucket list, but most people don’t get…
Divesment from fossil fuels: tips for activists
The process of divesting from fossil fuels follows a certain timeline. (What is Divestment from Fossil Fuels? It’s basically un-investing from oil, gas and coal.) And where an organization is on this timeline determines the type of action, talking points, and answers…
Otis class: Designing an Edible Landscape
Last Saturday, I taught a workshop on edible garden design at Otis College of Art & Design. It was a rapid-paced day, and we covered tons of ground (ha, ha!), and it was lots of fun. We talked about aesthetics…
