L.A. Green Grounds

LA Green Grounds Dig-Ins tend to be photogenic (if we may say so ourselves!). Whether of volunteers working hard to reclaim front-yard soil, or of smiles as people gaze onto a new edible garden, we snap photos of all Dig-Ins (and other related activities) for our Flickr page that we also compile into follow-up posts [...]

There is much to celebrate from Judy’s LA Green Grounds Dig-In: a great volunteer turnout from Los Angeles Stanford Alumni, talking urban agriculture with Eddie North-Hager and Leimert Park Beat, and building another edible garden where there was once turf on a wonderful and historic street in South Los Angeles. Each of these items deserve [...]

Join us Saturday, May 12 in beautiful Leimert Park for our next LA Green Grounds Dig-In! We’ll begin at 9:30am and go until a new edible garden is in place. UPDATE: Thank you to friend and community organizer Eddie North-Hager for promoting the Dig-In on Leimert Park Beat — and the videos he’s place on [...]

More than forty volunteers (a Dig-In record!) came together Saturday at S Harvard Blvd for a wonderful Dig-In during Good Food Day LA. The group logged a full day weeding, digging, planting, and celebrating another lawn turned into an edible garden in South Los Angeles. We hope you’ll enjoy the transformation seen below, and stay [...]

Neighbors walk in front of the LA Eco-village LA Green Grounds members Vanessa Vobis and Craig Dietrich visited the Los Angeles Eco-Village last month while hosting Maine permaculturalists Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito for an ecology-themed week at USC. The group were given a tour by Eco-village founder Lois Arkin, who has helped grow the [...]

November rain led to back-to-back Dig-Ins in December. Now, after one weekend, two new edible gardens exist in South Los Angeles! See the photos below and we hope you’ll join us at our next Dig-In. E 74th St Dig-In (December 10, 2011) Keniston Ave Dig-In (December 11, 2011)

After December’s double Dig-Ins Florence visited Yasmine and Alina’s sidewalk-facing garden in Southeast Los Angeles. Yasmine and Alina hosted our October, 2011 Dig-In that featured wonderful volunteer attendance and beautiful weather while planting the edible garden. Below are Florence’s photos from just a couple months later, great results!

In December Florence visited Sandy’s garden on La Salle Ave (Vermont Square neighborhood), host of our April, 2011 Dig-In — fabulous growth of what were then seedlings, and check out those collard greens!

Dig-Ins are back after a summer hiatus, and many LA Green Grounders attended the October Dig-In on E Colden Ave in Southeast Los Angeles’ Nadeau neighborhood (near Watts). Hosts Yasmine and Alina provided ample refreshments for the late summer heat, and all contributed to a full day of pickaxing, shoveling, weeding, and planting. What was [...]

In anticipation of our upcoming Dig-In on October 9th, today LA Green Grounders worked with the E Colden Ave Dig-In hosts Yasmine and Alina on preliminary tasks including mulch deliveries (from LA City’s giveaway) and an initial turning of the front yard soil. Also, a couple group photos just became available. On the left is the [...]