Call for volunteers: Good Food Festival and Conference Summer Events
Volunteers are needed to help with a variety of tasks at several pre-Festival events this summer. If you’re interested and available in volunteering your time at one of the events below, please contact Kelsey Youngman by email to kelsey.youngman [at] gmail [dot] com for further details. August 2, 2011 September 8, 2001: Conversation and cocktails [...]
Garden School Foundation’s Harvest Moon Fundraiser (and Workdays)
The Garden School Foundation invites Slow Food members and friends to Harvest Moon 2010, its autumn fundraiser to support the Foundation’s projects. All proceeds will benefit the Foundation, and those attending will enjoy hors d’oeuvres from Canelé restaurant and a live performance by The Silver Lake Chorus. When: Saturday, November 20, 2010 from 5:00pm until [...]
Next Garden School Foundation Workday Scheduled
The next Garden School Foundation workday has been announced and will be held on Saturday, March 27, at the 24th Street School (2055 West 24th Street, in Los Angeles). If you’re interested in contributing to the school’s efforts to develop its garden and are available between 9:00am and noon, please contact Nat Zappia, the GSF [...]
Garden School Foundation Workday
Update, February 26, 2010: We’ve just received word that tomorrow’s workday has been cancelled due to anticipated rainstorms in the area. The next workday has been scheduled for March 27. The Garden School Foundation has announced that it will hold a workday on Saturday, February 27th, at the 24th Street School (2055 West 24th Street, [...]
Food Forward in February 2010
Food Forward continues to grow, reducing waste and helping to put fresh fruit in the hands of those who are most in need. Slow Food Los Angeles has been pleased to help spread the word about Food Forward’s work, and we are delighted that so many of our members have volunteered to pick fruit and [...]
Volunteer Opportunities with Food Forward
Rick Nahmias and his team of Food Forward volunteers are looking for help with the following picks and tasks: Picking volunteers needed: Wednesday, July 15 at 5:30pm in West Hills Sunday, July 19 at 10:00am in North Hills Wednesday, July 22 at 5:30pm in Winnetka Sunday, July 26 at 10:00am (location to be determined) Food [...]
Volunteer Opportunities This Weekend
Two opportunities for Slow Food Los Angeles members and friends to help local organizations help others: At the 24th Street Elementary School: Nat Zappia, Director of the Garden School Foundation, invites Slow Food members and friends to come plant and eat in the school’s kitchen garden this Saturday, May 30. The school and garden are [...]
Food Forward LA Announces More Picks
Food Forward, Rick Nahmias’s effort to get fresh produce in the hands of those who could use it, is growing in popularity, and now has a home on the web. Visit foodforward.org and its companion blog, foodforward.wordpress.com for more information about scheduled picks and how you can contribute labor or fruit trees that need picking. [...]
News on Big Picks (and Mini Picks) from Rick Nahmias
On the heels of the successful “Big Pick,” Rick Nahmias has sent out word about upcoming opportunities to pick and donate fruit. His message is copied below: Hope you all had a good week and got some rest after our Big Pick on the 8th. All the folks at SOVA and I thank those who [...]
Volunteer at the Garden School Foundation’s Work Day
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 [...]
Helping Others on Thanksgiving
Food on Foot has sent us the following urgent request for assistance with their Thanksgiving Day plans: We need volunteers for our BIG Thanksgiving Day feeding on Thursday November 24th from 2:30pm until 4:30pm at our regular Hollywood location. We will distribute food and back packs to all of the homeless and poor and there [...]
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