Hey, on the 15th at the Garden we are showing GROWING CITIES - deets below. Dress warm and/or bring a snuggle bunny!! Good flick.
Los Angeles Community Garden Council and Seed Library of Los Angeles invite you to see documentary,
GROWING CITIES outside, under the stars at The Learning Garden located on the campus of Venice High School.
GROWING CITIES, tells inspiring stories of urban farmers, innovators, and everyday city-dwellers who are challenging the way this country grows and distributes its food from rooftop farmers and vacant lots, Americans are growing food like never before.
Watch the trailer: http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com/the-film/
Saturday, November 15th @ 4:45pm
The Learning Garden: http://www.thelearninggarden.org/
@ Venice High School
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/growing-cities-movie-at-slola-tickets-13866548219
Cost: $10 donation at the door is appreciated. Coffee and tea will be provided.
Address: 13000 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066
Entrance: Through the gate off Walgrove.
Parking: Plenty of free parking on the street; Walgrove or Venice Blvd.
Map: http://slola.org/contact/how-to-get-here/
DRESS WARMLY! Even on warm days, Venice gets chilly at night!
david
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Monday, November 3, 2014
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
The Learning Garden's August Schedule
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| A stunningly beautiful ear of corn from the Garden |
August is one of the warmest months and we tend to relax a little, but that doesn't mean we are shut down entirely! Here is our list of activities for August and a taste of September!
August 6 - 9:00 to 12 (see our ad in the post below) The Growing Food in Southern California Series continues with David King, the Gardenmaster, espousing the wisdom gleaned from centuries of gardening in Southern California. OK, that's a slight exaggeration - he is still a few years shy of his first century, but he knows a lot and he shares it with his usual witty and relaxed style of teaching. It's $25 at the gate and no reservation is needed. Dress to get in the garden and dirty - bring your own cup for coffee or garden-made chocolate mint tea. Master Gardeners needing education hours, this is like Comedy Driving School - you fulfill your required hours and laugh your way through it!
August 6 1:00 to 2:30 PM New Volunteer Orientation with Sheri Powell-Wolff and David King for those who want to volunteer in the Garden. Free...
August 7 - 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM YouThink in the Garden for a workshop.
August 7 - 12:30 to 1:30 - (This just in!) The Mar Vista Farmers' market are celebrating their 5th year this Sunday and many fun events are planned for the day. They'll be collecting money to benefit The Learning Garden and the Amazing Vegetable contest will be judged by our very own Gardenmaster - come on down and have a good time at our own local farmers' market!
August 7 - 12:30 to 1:30 - (This just in!) The Mar Vista Farmers' market are celebrating their 5th year this Sunday and many fun events are planned for the day. They'll be collecting money to benefit The Learning Garden and the Amazing Vegetable contest will be judged by our very own Gardenmaster - come on down and have a good time at our own local farmers' market!
August 7 - 1:00 to 3:00 PM - want experience in being a Gardenmaster? We need a volunteer to run the Garden for a couple of hours while a SLOLA meeting has the Gardenmaster's attention off campus. If you're free and want to make friends.... this is a wonderful opportunity to see how the Garden works on a Sunday afternoon. Could be really busy with lots of people passing through or it could be as lively as a bunch of snails after a beer party... Email the Gardenmaster pronto if you want to help! We got a volunteer!
August 13 - 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Transition LA in the Garden (the Gardenmaster is away on a field trip with his UCLA Extension class).
August 20 - 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM - Seed Library of Los Angeles meeting in the Garden at the picnic tables - we'll have a presentation on saving tomato seeds and folks will be able to check out seeds from the Library. Free to attend the meeting, there is a $10 Lifetime membership fee to join the library and check out seeds.
August 21 - 9:00 AM until we sell out (which has been around noon most days) - Meet The Learning Garden and our Venice High School students at the Mar Vista Farmers' Market. We'll have loads of herbs to sell and will begin to take orders for our world famous Pesto Madness Pesto!
August 25 - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Looking for a garden master stand in as David is off-campus for a SLOLA presentation. See the details on August 7th (1 to 3 PM) to see if you have the chops for the job!
August 25 - 5:00 PM until the sun goes down - Pickling Workshop Join the Gardenmaster and learn how to make your own pickles - it's not that hard! We will make some beet or yellow bean pickles and have some beet pickles to sample. We'll also learn the essence of making jam. This workshop will feature the things you can do to preserve food using a water bath canner, not a pressure canner. Once you've learned these techniques, a whole new world opens up with fantastic flavor combinations and choices - the workshop is sponsored by Our Time Bank, but is not limited to them. You may take a jar of pickles home for a small materials fee. Contact the Gardenmaster by email or 310.722.3656 for more details!
September 3 - 9:00 AM to Noon - The Growing Food in Southern California Series continues with David King, the Gardenmaster, and more of his witty wisdom. It's $25 at the gate and no reservation is needed. Dress to get in the garden and dirty - bring your own cup for coffee or garden-made chocolate mint tea. Master Gardeners, do you have your educational hours in? Can't get any more fun than this!
September 24 - 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Pesto Madness returns to the Garden for the 7th (gosh, already? yes! 7th time) We always have a blast, we always have great pesto and we always SELL OUT. Dust off those taste buds and join us for The Learning Garden's premier annual fund raiser! Be there or go hungry!
We'll round out the other September things in a later post
david
August 20 - 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM - Seed Library of Los Angeles meeting in the Garden at the picnic tables - we'll have a presentation on saving tomato seeds and folks will be able to check out seeds from the Library. Free to attend the meeting, there is a $10 Lifetime membership fee to join the library and check out seeds.
August 21 - 9:00 AM until we sell out (which has been around noon most days) - Meet The Learning Garden and our Venice High School students at the Mar Vista Farmers' Market. We'll have loads of herbs to sell and will begin to take orders for our world famous Pesto Madness Pesto!
August 25 - 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Looking for a garden master stand in as David is off-campus for a SLOLA presentation. See the details on August 7th (1 to 3 PM) to see if you have the chops for the job!
August 25 - 5:00 PM until the sun goes down - Pickling Workshop Join the Gardenmaster and learn how to make your own pickles - it's not that hard! We will make some beet or yellow bean pickles and have some beet pickles to sample. We'll also learn the essence of making jam. This workshop will feature the things you can do to preserve food using a water bath canner, not a pressure canner. Once you've learned these techniques, a whole new world opens up with fantastic flavor combinations and choices - the workshop is sponsored by Our Time Bank, but is not limited to them. You may take a jar of pickles home for a small materials fee. Contact the Gardenmaster by email or 310.722.3656 for more details!
September 3 - 9:00 AM to Noon - The Growing Food in Southern California Series continues with David King, the Gardenmaster, and more of his witty wisdom. It's $25 at the gate and no reservation is needed. Dress to get in the garden and dirty - bring your own cup for coffee or garden-made chocolate mint tea. Master Gardeners, do you have your educational hours in? Can't get any more fun than this!
September 24 - 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Pesto Madness returns to the Garden for the 7th (gosh, already? yes! 7th time) We always have a blast, we always have great pesto and we always SELL OUT. Dust off those taste buds and join us for The Learning Garden's premier annual fund raiser! Be there or go hungry!
We'll round out the other September things in a later post
david
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Upcoming Events In February and March At The Learning Garden!
A flowering peach at The Learning Garden. This is only one of several trees in full bloom, but don't be fooled. This warm weather is only an interlude -we'll be back to cold before we get the 'real thaw' sometime in March. It is still advisable to dress warmly for all events at the Garden!
13 February 1 PM to 4 PM – We are starting an Ayurvedic Garden in the Learning Garden! The herbs of Ayurveda are from the sub-continent of India and are closely associated with Yoga – they share that common culture. Come out and help put the start of this garden in place and learn about these wonderful plants and their benefits! For more information – contact the Gardenmaster. Free, in the Garden
19 February – 9 AM to about Noon – Westside Produce Exchange holds it's monthly exchange of excess produce. If you have too much of one thing from your garden, Naomi and her crew of volunteers (you can volunteer too!), accept the extra produce, divide it up and return it to the rest of the participants. It's a fabulous idea – you have too many turnips, another one has too many pomegranates (it really happens!), each of you drop off your excess and come back in a couple of hours and viola – there are a few pomegranates for you and a few turnips for them along with all the rest of the shared stuff. Westside Produce has the details. Simply Brilliant! Free on the Chi Patio.
19 February 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM – The third meeting of SLOLA, the Seed Library of Los Angeles and our 2nd Seed Swap! Working hard to insure a clean, non-GMO, and healthy food supply for all of us, and especially the marginalized communities. $10 to join and participate, the membership is non-expiring (for $10!) and allows you to borrow seeds from the library when it's up and running. You borrow your seeds for free and at the end of the season, you return the same amount to the seed library to be loaned out next year. $10 to become a member, but after that. SLOLA on the Web On the Chi Patio
26 February 10 AM – 2 PM - Create Your Own Fruit Trees! A seminar for gardeners on getting new plants without seeds! Get a small piece of a rosemary or a grape and grow your very own plant – taste your neighbor's delicious peach, get a bit of the tree and graft your own fruit tree! You will learn all the ways to make more plants from other plants to enhance your gardening skills and take your gardening to the next level! You can end up with one tree with many different apples or a citrus with different oranges, lemons and limes! You will take home your own grafted tree! $35 plus a $10 materials fee, on the Chi Patio. Prepay via PayPal at www.tlgdaily.blogspot.com. Email the Gardenmaster for more details. Coffee and tea are served -bring your own cup.
05 March – 9 AM to Noon – Our monthly Growing Food In Southern California! Only a person who has not gardened here can declare that we have no seasons! We do and the plants know it! When do you plant beets, beans, carrots, corn peppers, basil? All this and more is covered in our month by month series of what to do and when to do it! With over 30 years of growing food organically under his belt, metaphorically speaking of course, Gardenmaster David King's lectures are full of information, tidbits and hints that can't be found in any book! (Yet... ) $25 on the Chi Patio – coffee and tea are served -bring your own cup.
david
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