What an amazing Food Forward pick we had last Sunday in Granada Hills. It was a perfect day in a beautiful, two row, 16 tree orange orchard. And together, we harvested 1,789 lbs of oranges!
This brings Food Forward’s YTD total to 60,649 pounds of fresh fruit
gleaned and donated to our local food pantries to feed families in need!
A huge thanks to all 20 volunteers who came, helped and celebrated Food Forward pushing over 60,000 lbs this year…
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Last Sunday we had a two-home pick in Northridge which yielded 648 lbs of some of the sweetest oranges! Thank you, volunteers, for being so ready and willing to glean the impromptu trees as well as the planned ones!
Just wanted to let all of you know that all of the November picks (except the Weds 11/11 in Northridge at NOON) are currently full. THANK YOU all for being so enthusiastic and responding so quickly! We are trying to add more picks and will keep you posted..
Food Forward needs properties with fruit trees! If you know somebody who wants to donate their excess fruit please have them sign-up on the website or contact Erica at erica@foodforward.org
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In an attempt to take Food Forward’s activities of helping fight hunger in Southern CA to the next level, we are partnering with master canners Nina and Kevin of putsup.com for a pilot workshop on canning and preserving. This is aimed specifically to help educate/inspire FF volunteers who would want to be part of a new program where we can some of the bounty we harvest, donating part of it to the hungry as preserves, and selling part of it to help raise money for our group.
If you have a strong interest in learning about canning AND would want to use that interest to help move this initiative forward we have a HANDFUL of spots available for a Sunday Nov 22nd workshop at the MEND Kitchen in Pacoima. It will start at 1:30pm and Nina will be running what is assured to be a great afternoon of learning and hands on canning.
RSVP to info@foodforward.org.
Again, we have VERY FEW spots and are holding them for FF folk who to help take this knowledge into piloting a new initiative with us. Thanks!
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Hello Fellow Volunteers! Just wanted to let all of you know that all of the November
picks are currently full. THANK YOU all for being so enthusiastic and responding so quickly!
Please check back here and on Facebook (group: food forward) /Twitter (foodforwardla) for continued blasts about new picks and events being announced throughout the month
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A small pick last Friday (with our expert tree climber Emily 
in Beverly Hills yields 65lbs of fresh grapefruits just delivered to JFS/SOVA Metro to help feed LA’s hungry! The tree is loaded with new fruit and we look forward to going back in a few months…
Our mini-big pick next Sunday 11/8 in Granada Hills is now full but we still have spots available for our 1st midweek daytime pick on Weds 11/11 @ Noon in Northridge… RSVP to carl@foodforward.org
Food Forward needs properties with fruit trees! If you know somebody who wants to donate their excess fruit please have them sign-up on the website or contact Erica at erica@foodforward.org
Thanks again for all your support and we look forward to seeing you on a pick soon!
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Together, in October,we had eleven picks, yielding 4,244 pounds of citrus, 2,994 pounds
of tomatoes and 1,096 pounds of persimmons. You volunteers are amazing. Thanks for all the new faces, and even more for the repeating folk.
November is falling in line with previous months of extraordinary growth for Food Forward and will be another marvelous month of gleaning for LA’s hungry. Here are the November Picks:
Sunday 11/1 @10:30 am in Northridge
Tuesday 11/3 @ 5 pm in Northridge
Sunday 11/8 @10:30 am in Granada Hills (Property still TBD)
Sunday 11/15 @10:30 am in San Fernando Valley – TBD
Sunday 11/22 @10:30 am in San Fernando Valley – TBD
Sunday 11/29 @10:30 am in San Fernando Valley – TBD
Picks fill up FAST so be sure to respond quickly. RSVP to
carl@foodforward.org to secure your spot (first come first served). In an
effort to give everyone a chance to participate, we will reserve your
preferred pick. If you would like to participate in more than one pick,
please indicate which is your preferred pick date and we will add you to the
“standby list” for the additional picks. We look forward to seeing you on an upcoming pick soon.
Food Forward always is looking for properties with fruit trees! If you know somebody who
wants to donate their excess fruit please have them sign-up on the website
or contact Erica at erica@foodforward.org
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FF volunteers harvested over 2000 lbs of free fresh fruits and veggies for LA’s hungry this weekend..an amazing feat in itself, but when you factor in the over dozen new volunteers, new varietals of fruits and veggies we gleaned, new pick locations, and interview we had on Good Food (temp link – we’ll have interview on press page soon: http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/gf/gf091017the_green_fairy_port) – it was a pretty incredible weekend all around. Big thanks go out to our pick leaders Erica and Marie – and to Luke of MEND for helping further our partnership with Jeff at Pierce College. We hear due to good weather and abundant crops, FF may be back there soon
We have some great projects, picks and events in the hopper an hope to making some cool announcements soon. We wanted to thank the volunteers that headed out to our tour of MEND over a week ago – we know some of you got messed up from the traffic, and are sorry for that, but we hope to do another volunteer meet n greet before the year is out. In the meantime, thanks for all the ongoing support, new faces and offers of help…Look forward to seeing you at a pick soon.
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Food Forward is a proud supporter of the Garden School Foundation here in Los Angeles and wanted to let you know about an upcoming workday at the 24th Street School.
Dear GSF Supporters:
Just a reminder to come and visit the 24th Street School at our upcoming workday, next Saturday, 10/24, 9-12 at the 24th Street School. We are fortunate to have our partners from RootDown LA, Megan Hansen and Katy Atkiss, providing us all a delicious meal!
The school address: 2055 West 24th Street (between Western and Arlington Avenues). For any additional information, please contact me (contact info. below).
GSF has also been featured in the most recent issue of Edible LA magazine! We are very grateful to Lucy Lean (editor of Edible and GSF board member) for all her support! If possible, please take a moment to subscribe to the magazine and read about the sustainable food movement in our city that we’re all a part of! To subscribe go to this link:
www.ediblelosangeles.com/Site/subscribe
GSF’s chairperson, Nancy Power, has just released her new book, “The Power of Gardens” and will be at a book signing this upcoming Saturday, 10/17 (2-3:30 PM), at the Hennesey and Ingalls bookstore located in Santa Monica: 214 Wilshire Blvd. (adjacent to 3rd Street Promenade). Please come support Nancy and GSF!
Finally, our friends at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) have asked all community and school garden supporters to attend a series of upcoming meetings held by the Southern Regional Volunteer Neighborhood Oversight Committees (RVNOC). WLCAC hopes to overturn a decision made by the city of LA failing to provide Proposition K funding for the MudTown Farm in Watts. The meetings will be held every Wednesday, October 21, 28, and Nov. 4th from 3-5PM at
Office of the City Administrative
City Hall East, 12th Floor,
Conference Room A
200 North Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Sally Hageman, WLCAC at (323) 357-3534.
Look forward to seeing you at 24th Street next Saturday!
Nat
Natale Zappia, Director
Garden School Foundation
(310) 699-2902
nat@gardenschoolfoundation.org
www.gardenschoolfoundation.org
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We hope to pilot a preserve and fundraising project with Nina Corbett – creator of the great canning blog putsup.com. Details of this project and the event to launch it will follow soon, but to ensure it happens, FF is looking for a single pear and apple tree with full fruit which we can glean within 2 hours of LA…please call us with any suggestions: homeowners, farmers, whatever… – all donors receive a tax deduction and credit on the labels…plus the satisfaction they are helping Food Forward continue its mission of feeding LA’s hungry. Thanks!
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Marie leads our LAST tomato pick of the season at Pierce College this Saturday 2-4:30pm – Join her for a great dirty time plucking the seasons last cluster and beefsteaks for MEND – RSVP to carl@foodforward.org – a fun, dirty and family friendly time for all!
And before heading over, tune into GOOD FOOD on KCRW 89.9 FM at 11AM as Rick speaks with Evan Kleiman about the animal that is Food Forward.
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