So this week marked the start of a new academic year. This week we also began a new planting cycle and our latest series of gardening workshops, which brought out 15 people of various ages, languages, and backgrounds. Folks began planting basil, dill, kohlrabi, sugar snap peas that will hopefully survive in time to be transplanted on our next garden workday:
Sat. Sept. 25th, 9am @
the Lincoln Heights Community Garden
2449 Sichel Street
Los Angeles, CA 90031
In addition to the usual SEACA folks, there will also be volunteers from USC on hand to help clean up the garden, fill in the beds, and of course transplant the seedlings. Tam & I also started some lettuce, radishes, and carrots seedlings as well. I think we're going to eat well in two months! In the meanwhile, let us know if you want to join us on Sept. 25th.
I also wanted to share with you this story that was aired on KCRW about a month ago on Evan Kleiman's Good Food. One of her guests was Dr. Thomas Robinson of the Stanford School of Medicine who talked about how students are more likely to improve their diets when you raised their awareness of social justice issues than if you just talked about individual health benefits. Examples given were people who became vegetarian because of animal welfare issues or others wanting to eat locally to reduce their carbon footprint. Interesting, huh? It also confirms what we've known all along: people want to be a part of something bigger and to feel that their personal choices can make a difference.
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/gf/gf100821buffalo_wings_moonsh
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