Slow Food Los Angeles

supporting good, clean, and fair food production and consumption in Los Angeles

TOMATOMANIA! 2010

The dates for the 20th TOMATOMANIA! sales in California have been announced. These are perennial favorites for Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends, and a consistently great source for a stunning array of tomato varieties:
++ March 20 and 21, 2010, from 9:00am until 5:00pm
San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas
++ March 26, 27, and 28, [...]

Community Gardening: From Garden to Plate

Al Renner, the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Community Garden Council and Garden Master of Lavender Hill Farm, invites Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends to two events focusing on Garden to Plate, a multi-pronged effort to promote fresh food grown locally.
When: Friday, March 19, 2010 beginning at 7:30pm
Where: The G2 Gallery, 1503 [...]

Organic Garden Project

Organic Garden Project is a young but growing website dedicated to chronicling the development of organic gardens in a variety of settings. As noted on their site:
Organic Garden Project exists to bring the community of local sustainable food producers together. OGP is a hub of information regarding urban farms and gardens that are already in [...]

Care & Pruning of Fruit Trees Workshop

For Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends who are interested in increasing the health and productivity of their gardens, the Milagro Allegro Community Garden is hosting a workshop that may be just in time for your spring planning:
Master Gardener Lora Hall will lead a hands-on workshop on caring for various types of fruit trees, [...]

The 2009 Tomatomania! Tasting Event

The organizers of Tomatomania!, the country’s largest tomato seeding sale, invite those of you enjoying your homegrown tomatoes to join them and other tomatomaniacs for their annual Tomatomania! Tasting:
When: Saturday, August 8, 2009 beginning at 10:00am
Where: The Loteria Grill in Hollywood, 6627 Hollywood Boulevard
Cost: One perfectly ripe, correctly labeled homegrown tomato. Valet parking will be [...]

Event Announcement: Fruit Jam at Machine Project

The Fallen Fruit Collective and Machine Project are cooperating on their Fourth Annual Public Fruit Jam:
When: This Sunday, August 2, 2009 from 10:00am until 1:00pm
Where: Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado, Los Angeles
Cost: Free
Slow Food Los Angeles is pleased to be able to help support this year’s event, which invites Los Angeles residents to come [...]

Late Notice: Growing Mushrooms at Home

Learn to grow your own mushrooms with Marta Teegan of Homegrown and David Kahn of Sustainable Habitats and the Los Angeles Mycological Society:
When: Saturday, November 8, 2008 from 10:00am-noon
Where: Location in Los Angeles; address provided with registration
Cost: $50 per person
The surest way to grow mushrooms at home is with a mushroom kit, which makes a [...]

Batches of Jam–and Friends–at the Public Fruit Jam

Thanks to Mindy Farabee of the Los Angeles Times for reporting on the Public Fruit Jam held on Sunday at the Machine Project in Echo Park:
As pots of concoctions such as fig-lemon-lavender bubbled on portable burners, about 250 participants moved between indoor and outdoor tables with red-checked tablecloths, forming small jam-making bands. They chopped and [...]

Tomatomania! Tasting

The passionate organizers of Tomatomania! invite those of you enjoying your homegrown tomatoes to join them and other tomatomaniacs for a Tomatomania! Tasting:
When: Saturday, August 9, 2008 from 10:00am until 12:00noon
Where: The new Loteria Grill in Hollywood, 6627 Hollywood Boulevard
Cost: One perfectly ripe, correctly labeled homegrown tomato
The tasting will be an opportunity to share what [...]

Late Notice: Fallen Fruit Project Event in Los Angeles

Thanks to Judi Bikel for spotting information on the Slow Food Nation blog about an event tomorrow, August 3, in the Los Angeles area.
The Fallen Fruit project in cooperation with The Machine Project has organized the Third Public Fruit Jam. The Public Fruit Jam invites Los Angeles residents to come together and make jam with [...]

The Slow Food Nation Victory Garden Takes Root

In the first event of Slow Food Nation, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Alice Waters, and Anya Fernald, executive director of Slow Food Nation, officially opened the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at the San Francisco Civic Center on July 12. Coordinators and more than 250 volunteers worked to transform the heart of the Civic [...]

Event Announcement: Visit a Local “Edible Estate”

Join the Social Action Committee of Slow Food L.A. as we tour an Edible Estate with Fritz Haeg and learn about his effort to transform the American lawn as we know it:
 
When:  Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 9:30am, 10:30am, or 11:30am (sign up for ONE time slot only)
Where: The Foti Family residence in Lakewood, California. (Because this is a private [...]

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