Recent Streetsblog LA posts about community gardens

As City Considers Removing Ban on Parkway Vegetable Gardens, Some Communities Continue Planting

By Damien Newton | Aug 13, 2013 | No Comments

Later this morning, the Los Angeles City Council will consider a motion to formally halt the ticketing of individuals who plant vegetable gardens in the curb strips in front of their residences. Wesson promised the motion in 2011, after a Steve Lopez column in the Los Angeles Times told the story of one resident who […]

Got Justice?: Observations on a Food Justice Youth Summit and Food as a Means to Youth and Community Empowerment

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 31, 2013 | 6 Comments

When speaking with a major non-profit about their decision to put gardens in South Los Angeles, Garrett Broad says he was struck by their declaration that, after running the data, “it just so happen[ed]” that the highest incidences of heart disease, diabetes, and other health risk factors were found there. Broad, a recent Ph.D. and […]

South L.A. Happenings: Anti-Fracking Concerts, Farmers’ Markets, Sports Fairs and Runs, Bike Rides for Justice, and Detoxes

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 8, 2013 | 1 Comment

TONIGHT Sitting in a room full of California journalists and their editors last week as part of my training for a journalism fellowship, I was incredibly surprised to learn that few of them knew that fracking was going on in L.A.’s back yard. The lack of awareness has been of great concern to many of […]

Do You Know Where to Find Healthy Food in South L.A.? RideSouthLA and CSU Take Riders on a Different Kind of Food Tour

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 4, 2013 | No Comments

“They’ve been receiving it pretty decently, I must say,” Karen Whitman, the “Mama” of Mama’s Chicken, told the riders with the Healthy Food tour regarding her customers’ response to the fresh produce she recently began offering at her shop. “The more people that know about it, the more that’s coming in.” Located at the corner […]

Little Green Spaces Have Big Impacts in South L.A.

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 22, 2013 | 3 Comments

The little boy tearing through the hallway at the All Peoples Community Center pulled up abruptly when he spotted Crystal Gonzalez, the Peace Education Coordinator with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). “When are we going to do the garden class?” he asked excitedly, jumping up and down. “I want to do the worms again!!” Gonzalez […]

South L.A. Gardening Renegade to Speak at TED 2013 in Long Beach

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 4, 2013 | 3 Comments

Local gardening renegade Ron Finley will be one of the speakers at this February’s TED2013, themed “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.” Finley is one of the co-founders of L.A. Green Grounds, an informal organization dedicated to transforming South Los Angeles front yards into edible gardens. At his inspiring TEDx talk last year in Vancouver, […]

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