Visit where your food comes from

Nisha from Local to Global Life Works made this short interview with the folks from New Frontier Family Farm during a visit with the L.A food lobby people (a local food coop/food buyers club).   It’s really cool to see and hear the people that raise the things you eat.  Please visit Nisha’s original post to see more [...]

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FUN TO BE HAD & HELP NEEDED SUNDAY 8/21 FROM NOON TO 5

L.A. Eco-Village is repairing its cob lizard bench on Sunday 8/21 from noon to 5. If you are interested in natural building, take this opportunity to observe and work with Ray Cirino, artist/inventor/ permaculturist, and mosaic artist, Lee Adams. Ray will be bringing his Sparky, the dragon pizza oven to the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPSq9_QA4m0 so bring [...]

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Music Event/Food Sat Night 5/7 from 6 to midnight

Sat., May 7, 2011 from 6 pm to midnight at L.A. Eco-Village Music! Music! Music! Different kinds. Some loud! Some soft! Bands Single performers Duos Electronic. Amplified. Acoustic Some you’ve heard of; some not. Fundraiser for L.A. Eco-Villagers’ and Friends’ Burning Man Cafe $5 to $20 sliding scale. Cafe Negro at Burning Man provides FREE [...]

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Diana Leafe Christian Ecovillage Talk Feb. 22

If you haven’t heard Diana’s talk before, don’t miss this one.  OR if you have heard it, you won’t want to miss this one either, because it’s new and better than ever! Ecovillages: Where They Are, What They’re Doing, Why They’re Important Diana Leafe Christian (in person) Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 7:30 pm at [...]

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Great News! Learning Garden Agreement Signed!

On January 20th 2011, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Beverly Vermont Community Land Trust (BVCLT) signed the joint use agreement that enables a new learning garden at Los Angeles Eco-Village! The site is the currently-vacant lot at the north east corner of the intersection of Bimini Place and White House Place.

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KPCC Video Showcases L.A. Eco-Village

KPCC’s Pacific Swell website acknowledged Eco-Villager Joe Linton (me) as an everyday hero. Click for KPCC video showing off Los Angeles Eco-Village’s fruit trees, chickens, greywater, las trincheras (terraced water harvesting garden looking neglected), and more!

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first swarm capture

there are days when things just come to you.   i was about to leave on another bee escapade one afternoon when Joe comes over and tells me there is a swarm in front of his apartment.  plans were changed, our friend Erik was summoned and very quickly i was propped on a ladder against the [...]

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what you can grow when you gotta go…

here’s a nice article from Scientific American posted on July 23, 2010 about the wonders of pee.  when it comes to your garden, you don’t need to just rely on store-bought fertilizers, because you’re in charge! (urine charge!) Gee Whiz: Human Urine Is Shown to Be an Effective Agricultural Fertilizer Researchers say our liquid waste [...]

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The war on terrorist Milk and Eggs

For those out there who occasionally like to purchase food outside of the normal distribution networks (although why we don’t just blindly believe that FDA ‘oversight’ of un-inspected food processing factories keeps us safe is beyond me), there is bad news. Grist.org is reporting that “Raids are increasing on farms and private food-supply clubs“, and [...]

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World Cup Final Banana Bread

This doesn’t have a lot to do with eco-village, though it’s somewhat in the flavor of how we share meals together. A handful of us, mostly Julio, Julio, Somer, Becca, Eric, Doran and me, have been watching the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament. For the final today, we and another half dozen eco-villagers crammed in [...]

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bees dig flowering artichokes

going to the roof just to watch the bees is not practical nor desirable (from the roof’s wear standpoint).  so i noticed some bees coming to the artichoke flowers today and took this little video (and only after uploading it did i notice there are many more like it on youtube):

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the avocados are coming!

i went on the roof today to check on the bees and i snapped a pic of the incoming crop of avocados.  i sure hope the squirrels leave some for us humans.

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bee fever!

this weekend was filled with bee action.  we saw a talk with Kirk Anderson from the Backwards Beekeepers, we went to see Erik’s beehive (The shop-vac beehive itself) and with his gracious help we transported a beehive to our roof.  our friends Fernando and Hazel are moving to Argentina so they generously gave us their [...]

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Earth and Water Films Coming Up at LAEV

This Friday (May 14th 2010): Dirt the Movie – 7:30pm, suggested donation $5. Thanks to host Nick from Bike Talk! Next Friday (May 21st 2010): Rock the Boat – 7:30pm, suggested donation $20. Filmmakers and L.A. River Kayakers present - including L.A. Eco-Village’s and L.A. Creek Freak‘s Joe Linton.   Of course, all the details are available on [...]

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Melba on the Tavis Smiley radio show

our very own l.a. eco-villager melba thorn was interviewed last week on the tavis smiley show promoting her delicious vegan chocolates in time for mother’s day. click here to check out the interview. great job, melba!

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Food Lobby’s Jaime Farms in the news

people often ask me “where do the veggies come from?” when i talk excitedly about the delivery of abundant, locally grown, organic, affordable produce that gets sorted in our lobby for distribution every sunday. i say “Jaime Farms, a local farm”, but can’t say much more.  so i was happy to see that Jaime Farms’ [...]

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Ecovillager Opens New Coffee Shop, Local Caffeine Addicts Rejoice

Ecovillager Angel Orozco and his partners in Cafecito Orgánico have opened a new storefront at Hoover and Bellevue, just under the 101 freeway from LAEV. It’s about a 20 minute walk from here, and a 5-8 minute bike ride. With ample patio seating and a simple operation indoors, this new coffee shop really adds to [...]

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Loose Chicken

Sometimes, despite our best efforts, our chickens get loose. This one was out all weekend, I’m told. I was able to catch her as she roosted in the loquat tree at dusk yesterday.

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Food Truck Court to Open: Perhaps Carne Asada ISN’T a crime

As the LATimes just reported, a sea change may be in the works for mobile food culture in LA. Within several weeks, a parking lot at South Alameda Street and Traction Avenue downtown will open to host food trucks several days a week. This follows several years of crackdowns on taco trucks and other mobile [...]

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Finally Finishing the Second Garden Bed in the Front Bulbout

Thanks to great work by Bobby and Josh today, and lunch provided by Zoe, we finally finished building the second planter bed at the north end of the bulbout in front of Los Angeles Eco-Village. There’s background on the bulbout and before pictures here, and a post on our first completed raised bed thereon. More pictures and [...]

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