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L.A. Grows Green Projects Aplenty

L.A. Grows Green Projects Aplenty

Spring and summer mean green and, luckily for Angelenos, innovative garden projects in L.A. abound. Here are some of them right under our feet.

EATLACMA. We’ve told you about Fallen Fruit before. These masters of bringing public fruit to the people are part of a new installation at the L.A. County Museum of Art: EATLACMA, “a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics.” Art meets food in curated artist gardens, works from the museum’s permanent collection that feature fruit, and other edible endeavors, like “Show Us How You Eat,” videos of people doing just that—chewing and swallowing. Mark your calendars for the public opening on Sunday, June 27th.

Seedbombs. Forget about bubble gum, Greenaid’s gumball machines dispense something better: balls of clay, compost and seeds used to “bomb” sad spaces in need of some green. See the list of seedbomb machines already in L.A. here. And you can pledge for the project on kickstarter and help bring 12 more machines to parts of the city that could use some native plants and wildflowers (you’ll get some seedbombs for your own guerilla gardening as a bonus).

Parkman Triangle. What do you get when Silver Lakers transform a triangle of concrete? An “urban lounge” filled with native plants, shade trees and rocks for sitting. With the help of Urban Operations Studio and a grant from the Los Angeles Office of Community Beautification, this patch of green space growing on Parkman Avenue shows how much good neighbors can do when they get together.

We also love the work Urban Farming is doing in and around Downtown with its Food Chain Edible Walls, delivering healthy produce and organic ag skills to urban residents. Listen to an interview KCRW’s Good Food had with Meg Glasser about the Weingart Center’s wall here.

Please tell us in the comments about any more green, growing projects you’re excited about in L.A. or elsewhere!

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Jeanne Kuntz

This blog keeps getting better and better. I co-host a Green Booth at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market and I am constantly scouring the landscape for presenters (we have a new one each week, as you know, since YDT was our guest!). Your blog has so many amazing people and organizations. I can’t wait to contact them and meet them. You always help me see the fun side of community organizing.

Danielle

Thanks, Jeanne! And good luck with the booth, bringing good, green people to market! :)

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