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What is success? Three little tomatoes, twenty kids’ names.
Click to view slideshow. Today was our last day of the semester, working in the Jefferson garden with Ms. Kelley’s art class. Surveying the scene, you might not have thought much of our progress this...
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PLEASE do check out our Facebook Page for most recent news!
RootDown LA on Facebook… Our stories tend to get up there more quickly lately! https://www.facebook.com/pages/RootDown-LA/125870417444952
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RootDown’s Midsummer Night’s Urban Food Feast
Click to view slideshow. Thanks so much to everyone who showed up for our Midsummer Night’s Urban Food Feast! For two days before the event, our young chefs joined professional chefs, Aram Scorza, and...
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Ron Finley hooks us up on Heavy T’s Grow Show!
Ron Finley just brought in THOUSANDS of dollars of garden supplies for South Los Angeles! We’d never HEARD of these guys! http://www.dufffreezone.com/htgs-blog/
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We’re at it again with the broccoli.
The nasty broccoli What can we say. They hate it. Then we cook it. Then they eat it.
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The planets align again at Augustus Hawkins
How is this for coincidence. Seven years ago, RootDown LA founder, Megan Hanson and a San Francisco Mission High School teacher, Erica Ramirez, were trialing some cooking, nutrition and farming...
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Can you say ADDED VALUE?!
Click to view slideshow. Our latest crew of “You’re Gonna Wanna Eat Your Veggies” trainees turned one of their member’s herb gardens into the source for a FOR-PROFIT urban garden product. Who wants to...
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They’re Gonna Wanna Eat their Veggies in the Big House!
RootDown LA’s latest cooking/nutrition class at Nuevo South. Click to view slideshow.
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A tamale Second Sunday at the Big House
Our youth staff and students ran this neighborhood feast entirely on their own today! Tamales, fruit, veggies, potato salad, green salad and salsa verde for all the neighbors at the Big House/Nuevo...
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Karen Ramirez leads her first garden install!
Click to view slideshow. Wow. Karen Ramirez, a graduate of Jefferson High and early member of RootDown’s programs, has come a long way since (as she put it) she got a little bored chopping veggies...
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If you build it…
Yesterday during our staff meeting, a young man, Jose, came to the front door of the Ralph Bunche House and knocked. He’d seen our sign in the window (it says something about food revolutionaries)...
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LAUSD students earn Service Learning credits with RootDown LA
Students in LAUSD schools must earn Service Learning credits to graduate. RootDown LA now offers a healthy cooking/food systems training series that lets students earn those credits as they design...
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What does RootDown LA’s Executive Director get for a bonus?
South LA tomatoes, grown entirely by the youth in our programs. Priceless.
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Why would you want to donate to RootDown LA?
So I show up at one of our sites today and Gerry and Johnny are hanging out, tending the compost pile. They report that they just brought 10 new neighbors into the neighborhood compost program. Then...
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We HEART our neighbors!
The BEST thing about building youth-driven local food systems? The neighbors who greet us with cheers and and loud requests for fruit and veggies.
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RootDown’s Next Generation of Story Tellers
Click to view slideshow. Queeny Gutierrez has become the resident photographer at the WECAN Urban Food Forest. She’s got quite an eye for veggies and the kids that are learning to love them.
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Back to school with RootDown LA!
RootDown’s afterschool program resumed at Jefferson High this week. We’ve already converted at least a dozen former tomato, onion and broccoli haters. RotoDown LA – You’re Gonna Wanna Eat Your...
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We can’t thank you enough!
Our volunteers rock. Simply said. Mud, Camille, and Madeline HUGE HEARTS and veggie love to you! (Not to mention our youth staff who volunteer LOTS of time outside of paid hours – Johnny &...
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You SURE these carrots aren’t nasty?
Suspect carrots. Not so nasty after all. I started RootDown LA because I seemed to have a knack at getting even the most stubborn eaters to eat their veggies. I never expected, the kids would start...
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