Slow Food Los Angeles

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

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Vineyard Management Opportunity

North Hollywood High School has a great small vineyard. The person who installed it is no longer interested, and the search is on for someone with an interest in wine grapes and making their own wine to take it over and benefit from the grapes. NHHS students can help keep the vineyard watered, fertilized, and [...]

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Event Announcement: California Rare Fruit Growers Garden Tour

Members of Slow Food LA are cordially invited to attend the annual garden tour sponsored by the Foothill Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association. This event highlights CRFG’s motto that “everyone is an expert in their own back yard” by showcasing the fruit orchards and vegetable gardens of Deborah Urquhart. When: Saturday, September [...]

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