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  • Community events in Westchester,  Enviro Change-Makers community

    A community bread oven

    Last Saturday we had the kickoff meeting for a new project:  building a community bread oven out of cob. What’s cob?  For us in Southern California, the easiest comparison is to think about the adobe bricks used for the missions;…

    January 13, 2015
  • Community events in Westchester

    The Art of the Edible Landscape

    Imagine a beautiful front yard — a sculpture in three dimensions — that you can walk through and enjoy, that will feed you luscious organic food! How does one design such a thing?  This spring I’ll be teaching “The Art…

    January 12, 2015
  • Community events in Westchester

    ECM New Year’s Potluck – Jan 21

    Happy New Year!  There’s a whole lot of Change-Making going on! Please join us for a New Year’s Potluck on Weds Jan 21, and find out about all the projects ECM has underway.  Meet new friends and join in the…

    January 1, 2015
  • Creating social change,  Enviro Change-Makers community

    What happened to the GMO-Free Zone?

    Not everything we do comes out successful.  Sometimes we have some rather spectacular failures.  Hopefully, we learn from them, we dust ourselves off, and we continue on. When you’re fighting GMOs, you know that at some point you’ll encounter opposition.…

    December 31, 2014
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info

    Edible Gardens around Los Angeles

    Some of my favorite Edible and Functional gardens around Los Angeles.  All these gardens are open to the general public during selected hours (see their websites for hours and directions). in Westchester/LA 90045 … Community Garden at Holy Nativity –…

    October 7, 2014
  • Community events in Westchester

    Let’s Starve the Storm Drains!

    Honestly, we’re not forecast to get very much rain this season.  So shouldn’t we make the most of every drop we get?  There is no reason to waste any of it down the storm drains.Is your property set to soak up every…

    October 3, 2014
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info,  Enviro Change-Makers community

    Toxic lawns

    If you thought a “GMO-Free Zone” in Los Angeles wasn’t too important because there aren’t a lot of farmers inside the City, think again. Scotts and Monsanto are getting ready to surround you with genetic modification: genetically engineered lawn grass.…

    September 18, 2014
  • Abundant Harvests - garden info,  Community Garden at Holy Nativity,  My home garden

    Crop rotations in So. Calif: When to change seasons

    It’s autumn in Southern California.  Or is it?  The weather has changed.  Wait, it’s changed back again… Contrary to what East Coast people say, Southern California does have its seasons.  But there’s rarely a clear “cutoff” date.  Add climate-change-driven Weather…

    September 8, 2014
  • Cityscape Seeds

    ‘That lettuce’ Frisee

    When it rains in L.A., ‘that lettuce’ comes up all over my yard.  My sister is probably the one who named it, years ago, asking me whether I had any seedlings of ‘that lettuce’ to share. A mild-flavored green, pretty…

    September 3, 2014
  • Cityscape Seeds

    Fig ‘Black Jack’

    Delicious black-skinned, ruby-throated fig, juicy with sweet flavor.  Tree is a genetic dwarf, which means it is easily kept under 6-8 feet, and will never grow too big for your city garden. The Black Jack fig performs wonderfully here in…

    August 9, 2014
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