Recent Streetsblog LA posts about community gardens

Finding Quiet Moments in a Crush of 100,000 CicLAvistas is Easier than You Think

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 16, 2012 | 7 Comments

At the risk of sounding blasphemous, I must confess that my favorite moments from CicLAvia are the quietest ones. It was exhilarating to be hurtling along the route through an empty downtown as Los Angeles was still rubbing the sleep out of its eyes. It was 8:30 am and I was on my way to […]

Community Services Unlimited, Inc.: Cultivating Communities by Cultivating Gardens

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 13, 2012 | No Comments

“LOOK AT THE STRAWBERRIES!!” squealed a student, pointing at the luscious red berries peeking out from under the leaves. “Can we eat them?” asked Cesar hungrily. Cesar and the other students working in Community Service Unlimited’s (CSU) Expo Garden that morning decided to spend their spring break volunteering in area gardens and learning about social […]

What Lies Beneath: Using Community Gardens to Recapture Shared Culture

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 27, 2012 | 1 Comment

We are most sad about being unable to pass on our agricultural traditions to our children, said an older gentleman in Spanish. Where we lived, we had no cars — only canoes for the canals, he continued. We grew all we needed with techniques that we had brought with us when we were taken from […]