The “Grow LA Victory Garden Initiative” through the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program is an opportunity to become a certified Victory Gardener. The course will be taught locally at Milagro Allegro by our dear friend and Master Gardener, Milli Macen-Moore on a series of Saturday/Sunday afternoons in April. To learn more, please see the attached victory garden course flyer and registration information, press release, or visit http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu for more information.
Free H1NI Vaccines
Protect yourself and health of those you love from the H1N1 Flu
The County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, Community Health Services and
Milagro Allegro Community Garden
are sponsoring free H1N1 vaccinations
Where: Milagro Allegro Community Garden
When: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Time: 1PM-4PM
Who: Anyone over 6 months old.
More Info: 213-989-7090
Join our friends at Occidental College for two exciting upcoming events to formulate exciting plans for a better public realm in the streets of Los Angeles !
Janette Sadik-Khan Lecture on Energy & the Environment
Where: Occidental College
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Time: 7:30 pm
L.A. StreetSummit 2010
Where: LA Trade Tech College
Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010
Time: 10:30 am – 5 pm
Register at www.lastreetsummit.org
For more information, please see the Oxy Street Summit Flier
Please join one of Milagro Allegro’s dearest friends and mentors, Al Renner, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Community Garden Council and Garden Master, Lavender Hill Farm for a presentation and open discussion regarding Garden to Plate, a multi-pronged effort to promote fresh food grown locally.
When: Friday 19 March 7.30 pm
Where: The G2 Gallery, 1503 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, California 90291, 310.452.2842
In addition, the public is invited to an Open House at Lavender Hill Farm on Sunday, 21 March from 8.30am to Noon.
This four acre site located at 545 Solano Avenue (LA 90012) is comprised of vegetable beds, permaculture terraces and a fruit tree orchard nestled on the hillside above Solano Canyon Community Garden. Mark Donofrio of Larchmont Grill, Michael Duddie of Mirabelle Restaurant and farm manager Charles Lee will join Renner to answer questions about their restaurant-supported agriculture program initiated in 2009.
For more information about both events, please see the Community Gardening – From Garden to Plate informational flyer.
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds is an excellent source for non-hybrid, non-GMO, non-treated and non-patented seeds. Baker Creek boycotts all gene-altering companies and works with a network of about 50 small farmers, gardeners and seed growers to offer over 1,300 varieties from 70 countries. They are based in Mansfield, Missouri and Petaluma, California (just 30 minutes north of San Francisco).
check out their website at www.rareseeds.com
On February 15th for the President’s Day Holiday, Milagro welcomed a group of Occidental College mentors and their Luther Burbank Middle School student mentees for a volunteer day led by Daniella Kuttner, the Oxy WYSE chapter director, and Daniel Lawler, an Oxy senior who is researching and volunteer at the garden. Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (WYSE) is a curriculum-based group mentorship program that provides young women with the resources, information and support necessary to make informed decisions about relationships, sexuality and their futures in order to create community change…
WYSE crew!
Many thanks to our excellent volunteers from WYSE, college and middle-school students alike, who worked together to finish painting our shed, prepare plots for incoming gardeners and weed around the garden. We hope you’ll come again to enjoy your important contribution to the garden. For more photos of the afternoon, check out our album!
Milagro unveils mobile kitchen islands and grill designed for the LA Sprouts program
2010 February 10
Milagro Allegro will begin using a pair of mobile kitchen islands and grill for the cooking and nutrition portions of our LA sprouts after school program, which were designed specifically with outdoor applications in mind by Gideon Kleinman, a talented up-and-coming designer from Art Center’s College of Design in Pasadena. Funding for the program was provided by a Community Benefit grant from Kaiser Permanente. The islands will serve as kitchen workstations for LA Sprouts and the grill as a cook space where we can prepare warm snacks with the 4th and 5th graders from LAUSD’s Loreto Elementary School enrolled in the program. The islands will dually provide storage space for our kitchen items, which have been acquired by Milagro Allegro through generous donations by Slow Food LA, Whole Foods Arroyo Parkway, Anolon Cookware and an anonymous donor.
About the designer: German born and American educated, Kleinman’s designs tend to uniquely pull from both cultural influences. Kleinman is pursuing a Masters in industrial design at Art Center, and plans to take on projects whose solutions can be found in the interface between language, thought, practicality and efficiency. For inquiries please contact the designer: gideonpincas@gmail.com or 818-451-3472.
Care & Pruning of Fruit Trees Workshop
February 20th, 2010 2PM @ Milagro Allegro Community Garden
Master Gardener Lora Hall will lead a hands on workshop on caring for various types of fruit trees, including pruning and espalier.
This workshop is free of cost and open to Milagro Allegro gardeners as well as members of the public wishing to learn to care for their own trees.
For questions:colleen@miss-info.net or 323-255-3803 or click here for a downloadable flyer for fruit tree workshop
Milagro Allegro has been awarded one of the 2010 City of LA Community Beautification Grants (a $10,000 award) which we will use to complete our gathering circle with colorful artistic tiles that will document the building of the garden, and to supplement the funding we have from another beautification grant for our metalworked fence.
We continue to be thrilled with support for our project and the beautiful things coming out of the garden.
Many thanks to the Occidental College students who came out to the garden on Saturday, January 23 as part of their 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. day of service. The MLK Challenge is a day of service to commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1994, Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act, officially designating MLK Day as a national day of service. The MLK Challenge model provides college students across the country with a fun and challenging way of serving in honor of Dr. King.
Thank you to the Oxy crew: Noel, Jessica, Stefanie, Bessie, Morgan, Mary, Beverly, Jeff, Amy, Kendall, and Sarah (we’re missing someone!) for your hard work and positive attitude. It was a spectacularly beautiful and sunny day to be outdoors working in the garden after a week of grey skies and rain!
These students seriously rocked! We were blown away with their stamina, determination and spirit of comradery. We have to brag a little here – these guys spread an entire 15 cubic yards of mulch over the garden! They’ve got it goin’ on at Oxy!
Check out the photo album from Oxy MLK day of service for more pics! We hope to see Oxy back at the garden soon!
