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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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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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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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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Meals Together at Los Angeles Eco-Village

Like most intentional communities there are frequent shared meals at Los Angeles Eco-Village. There’s been some discussion lately about guests attending these shared meals. For the really intrepid stickler reader there’s the more official summary of what we’ve discussed and decided about this, see meeting notes here and here on the LAEV wiki. For the [...]

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