tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26605896711780899802011-09-10T05:28:56.939-07:00Community group in the Westchester area of Los AngelesJoanne Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09994506899374298331noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660589671178089980.post-65906114135092748952011-09-10T05:03:00.000-07:002011-09-10T05:28:56.951-07:00

The Harvest Westchester project collects excess backyard fruit and vegetables and helps channel this food to where it will be useful. The project operates in the Westchester (90045) area of Los Angeles.Harvest Westchester began as a new shoot of the Community Garden at Holy Nativity. As volunteers harvested the community garden and carried its fresh fruits and vegetables to Food Pantry LAX, we

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Times are changing – radically. Changing times call for changing practices.As you as you reorient your career, or as you create the 5- and 10-year plan for your business, we encourage you to do so with clear understanding of the potential pitfalls and the unprecedented opportunities.In the decade ahead our local community will need:Local businesses, which sell or utilize locally-sourced

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Do you save seed? Do you have extra half-packets of vegetable seed lying around from last season's exuberant purchases? Do you wish you could access some of those exotic heirloom varieties without having to buy whole packets? Do you want to start a garden and yearn for diversity? Come to our seed swap!Bring your seed, and bring junk mail envelopes to carry home your bounty. If you don't have

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Learn to design your own edible landscape for your home garden. This popular series returns with Joanne Poyourow, who designed the Community Garden at Holy Nativity. You'll learn how to design a garden that will keep producing year round in our So Calif seasons.Part I (Mar 20): "The Big Picture"We'll begin with overall site design, permaculture zones, aesthetics, making full use of vertical vs

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There is a global mobilization planned for the weekend in the middle of the Copenhagen climate conference—Dec. 11-13.Mid-way through the climate talks, people all over the world will gather at iconic or strategic locations in their communities, and will light candles of hope to stand in solemn solidarity with the citizens of the nations whose very survival is threatened by the climate

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Are you worried about the economy? Are you wondering how you mightmeet your family's needs with little cash? Are you curious aboutalternative currencies and other ways of sharing finances within acommunity?On Thurs evening Sept 24, the Environmental Change-Makers will hold anevent which explores many ways of Sharing within Our Neighborhoods.(7-9pm in Westchester) There are many ways of sharing

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A hands-on workshop making lacto fermented pickles.A harvest celebration with live music.Bring-your-own vegetables. Recommendations: Radishes (daikon is especially tasty), cucumbers, cabbage, baby onions, green beans, carrots, garlic cloves, beets, lemons, turnips, all work nicely.It will be helpful if you bring your own cutting board and knife.We will provide brine and canning jars.Materials

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See Harvest Westchester on the Channel 4 News.The story also made the front page of the Daily Breeze.

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Please join us on Thursday March 26 for a hands-on Bread Baking Workshop given by Fr. Peter, the local "Breadbaker par Excellence."Baking bread is one of the most basic skills of our civilization. Yet many of us don't know how to do it! Learn how to knead a basic bread. You'll get a recipe and take home a small sample.The bread baking workshop is part of our ongoing series of "reskilling"

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Here are the notes from our "The Economy and the Environment" talk last Thursday (Feb 26) at a merged meeting of the Environmental Change-Makers and Transition Los Angeles.First, we started with a review of where the economy is. We read an old Shoe cartoon (Jeff MacNelly) which proclaimed "the recession is over ... let the depression begin!" We mentioned the recent international economic

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For those interested in helping set up a Fruit Harvest program for theWestchester area, come join us for a planning meeting tomorrow night(Wednesday 2/4) 6:30-8pm.We're setting up a program that will* map the fruit trees in our local neighborhood* connect excess fruit with individuals in need* facilitate fruit exchange within the community* (eventually) create community-building Fruit Harvest

Joanne Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09994506899374298331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2660589671178089980.post-89220871667045083442009-02-03T10:05:00.000-08:002009-02-03T10:06:11.264-08:00

Join us for a free garden class mini-series, "Designing Your Spring Vegetable Garden."We'll cover vegetable rotations, aesthetic design, zone layout, companion planting, which vegetables are warm vs cool weather, and much more.In fact, there's so much material that we'll be doing the class in twosegments:Part 1 will be on Sat Feb 7Part 2 will be on Sat Feb 28The class runs from 9am to 10:30am.

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With the economy in such dismal shape, who can think about the environment? Learn how the answers to both are interrelated.At the next general meeting of the Environmental Change-Makers, we'll talk about what's happening in the economy. We'll talk about the industrial growth paradigm, the impact of peak oil and biocapacity, and about David Holmgren's view of energy futures.Peak Oil primer

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