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In the News! New garden at Glassell Park Elementary posted on “Highland Park-Mt. Washington Patch” website!
EnrichLA and the new garden at Glassell Park Elementary School has been featured in the “Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch” website!
Enrich L.A., which is a non-profit organization, has built more than a dozen school gardens throughout Los Angeles, including one at Luther Burbank Middle School in Highland Park.
Speaking to Patch in November, Enrich L.A. founder Tomas O’Grady said that the gardens can be integrated into the school’s curriculum as way to teach a variety of lessons, ranging from horticulture to healthy eating.
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EastsiderLA shares our involvement in the Jubilee!
The Eastsider LA shares with readers our involvement in this year’s Silverlake Jubilee.
This year’s Jubilee, LA’s premier music, arts, and food festival, held in Silver Lake on Memorial Day Weekend —May 26–27, 2012—will feature a FREE community block party with live performances, literary readings, food vendors and more for all ages. Also meet with some local businesses and organizations that help enrich and enliven Silver Lake.
Join us for classes by the Sweat Spot, creative crafts and other family projects by local organizations , upcycled custom tailoring onsite by Matrushka, hands-on garden demos by ENRICH LA and readings by students of 826 LA and John Marshall High School students from the LAAAA/PEN USA accelerated writing workshop, as well as the L.A. Derby Dolls, and the Echo Park Time Bank with more to come.
EnrichLA in FrontiersLA.com!
FrontiersLA.com has included this Sunday’s EnrichLA event in their “Harvey Milk Day Celebrations” article! If you would like to be part of this great event, join us at RFK Community Schools located at
701 S. Catalina St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90005
“On Sunday May 20, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Stuart Milk, founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation and nephew of Harvey Milk, will host the 3rd Annual Harvey Milk Day of Service at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools.
At the first commemoration in 2010, Villaraigosa pledged to honor Harvey Milk through a day of service every year to acknowledge Milk’s legacy of community engagement. This year’s We Serve LA” project—held in conjunction with Gay for Good, Enrich L.A., FAIR, Latino Equality Alliance, UCLA Family Commons, Wilshire Center Business Improvement District, principals, teachers and students from the Los Angeles Unified School District, among others—will paint commemorative canvas murals, build two sets of edible produce gardens to be used in educating parents and students alike about nutrition and sustainability, and complete a campus wide clean up at Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools.”
“Children today are not doing so well eating-wise, and we think one of the reasons why is they don’t know where food is coming from,” said Thomas O’Grady, director of Enrich LA.
Students create, maintain and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
“My favorite thing to eat at this garden is radishes,” said Colby Flores, a 7th grader from Thomas Starr King Middle School. “We grow tomatoes. We grow lettuce and a lot of herbs.”
For press information, please contact:
Tomas O’Grady
tomasogradyenrichla@gmail.com
