Proposed Walgrove Elementary Greening Project 1630 WALGROVE AVENUE, Los Angeles, California, 90066 Principal: Olivia Adams 310 391 7104 8/25/2012 Project Description: In partnership with LAUSD, and Mia Lehrer and Associates and Walgrove Elementary School, Enrich La, a non-profit, proposes to create a schoolyard habitat encompassing 25,000 square feet of its campus formerly occupied by…
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Glassell Park Neighborhood Council 8/9/2012 Glassell Park Elementary On Saturday, May 26, students from Glassell Park Elementary, along with Enrich L.A., came together to build a school garden. Through the sponsorship of $5,000.00, from the Glassell Park Neighborhood Council, Enrich L.A., founded by Tomas O’Grady and Glassell Park Elementary students were able to have…
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Tomas O’ Grady to teach at CWI’s Summer WEST—a founder of the non profit EnrichLA,which as a community based non profit has supported the introduction of an unprecendented number of school gardens in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), one of the largest and most challenged school systems in the nation. Tomas is a farmer’s…
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New edible garden to be built at Woodlawn Elementary on September 22nd. Volunteer here
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Every week the EnrichLA garden stewards drop by our main office to pick up trays of seedlings for the gardens- tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, rosemary, thyme, lavender, arugula, eggplant, squash, and butterfly bush to name a few. As soon as a couple of trays disappear from the garden a new batch catches my eye as I…
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Main Street students were excited to plant tomatoes for the new summer planting season! First we made sure to pull some lettuce plants that had flowered in order to make way for our new growers. Stephanie wanted to give the pulled plant a vigorous shake to get the dirt off and thus decided that dancing…
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“We are not in Kansas anymore. This is one acre and thank you to Congressperson Linda Sanchez and Bennett Kayser, School board member for helping us get it off the ground” Tomas O’Grady “Thank you to Enrich La for your generosity and deep sense of commitment” Bennett Kayser, School board member We planted 1000 seedlings….
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