December 23rd, 2010 | Blog, Food Security, Our Food, Stories & News, community, documentary, farm, film, Food Security, garden, grass-roots, LA, Los Angeles, The Garden, urban
Have you ever seen that documentary about the hugest urban community garden in the world that was bulldozed by the city of Los Angeles? It is a real tear-jerker. A truly disturbing film. Guess what? LA is at it again. They are planning to increase the cost per plot for community gardens from $25 to $120 in 2011. What an increase! Los Angeles has also been notorious for pulling up guerrilla gardens. Los Angeles is a fantastic city. I have lived there on and off since we used to visit my grandparents in Alhambra when we were kids. In fact, I went to high school at John Muir in Pasadena, and went to college there as well–despite the crazy excesses of that city, I really like the place.
August 5th, 2010
Limited Time! Twitter Contest! WIN a Free SCOBY Brew Now Kit (provided by LA's Kombucha Mamma and valued at $35- see it here). All you have to do is follow @helladelicious and @kombuchakamp on twitter by Sunday, August 15th, then Tweet this message: "Win a Brew Now Kombucha Kit from Kombucha Kamp, ...
November 2nd, 2009
Published in Far West Almanac, November 2009.
I recently attended a Food Justice Forum geared to generate a variety of solutions to the issues of getting nourishing food to the lowest income groups in the downtown Vancouver, BC area, while still paying the farmers a living wage. This is an issue ...
September 19th, 2009
This week I was finally able to send in my application for Health Insurance in Canada. It has been 4 years since I had coverage, and during this period I was the unhealthiest that I have ever been (so typical eh?). In one of those synchronistic events a friend also sent me the link to the video To Y ...
September 1st, 2009
Published in Far West Almanac, September 2009.
Perhaps I have been watching too much Al Jazeera, but that, along with the film Blue Gold: World Water Wars, has got me worrying about folks down in LA. I honestly still can't believe that Arnold Schwarzenegger is really the governor of California— ...
