Los Angeles Worm Farm Collective

Happy World Soil Day Keep soil healthy by using worm castings! Our Red Wigglers convert organic waste into natural fertilizers, then the casting they create (aka worm poo) is filled with microbes that acts like a soil conditioner #worldsoilday2020 ... Keep Soil Alive, Protect Soil Biodiversity #vermicompost #redwigglers #urbangardening See more

If you can, please donate to Bliss Cycle Pantry for and by our unhoused neighbors at Echo Park Lake! They are currently fundraising for tents! CashApp: $lastofbliss or Paypal.me/lastofbliss

Check out this article by @han.gvul @femnewsmag wrote back in April For me, it’s really important that the farm stays in this metropolitan city and is metro-accessible, explained Keshy. Having a farm in the city allows the worker-owners, many of whom have lived in Los Angeles since childhood, to integrate their farming practices into their everyday lives as 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in Los Angeles.... By composting with earthworms, LAWFC converts L.A.’s nutrient-poor soil and food waste into fertilizer for locals to use in their neighborhood gardens. Pt. 1/2 article Link in bio for full article

Agroecologyas much as it’s about creating the structures to support the production of clean, healthy food that’s produced in harmony with the planet and suppo...rting the worker who actually grows foodit’s also very much a political and ideological process to form the new person, explained Snipstal, a member of the Black Dirt Farm Collective in Washington, D.C. See more

[On her small, 3-acre farm in the town of Winters, Leach grows Korean perilla, chili peppers, different kinds of Korean melons, soy beans, mustards, and more. It’s through cultivating her relationship with Korean produce that she realized how plants have historically been a lifeline for people, and she now wants to rebuild that lifeline for people in her community. In addition to the produce she grows for Namu Gaji, Leach has also started a CSA program in partnership with oth...er Asian American organizations to provide Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese American families in the area with her Korean and East Asian produce. COVID-19 has shut down schools and day cares, putting intense pressure on parents in our area who need to provide additional care for their children, Leach said. This CSA program is partially in response to that. We want to provide relief while also helping families learn about produce in a way that is tied to their traditions. Leach is also an advocate of seed sovereignty, or the rights of farmers to save, nurture and exchange their own seeds. Through not just supplying Asian American families with cultural produce, but educating them on seed and plant preservation, she hopes to sustain the relationships people have with their ancestral plants plants that have been overlooked by Western standards and can’t be found in a typical grocery store. Here in the Bay Area and in other parts of California, having access to cultural produce is included in what food security is, Leach said. There are health disparities among Asian Americans that are tied to their lack of access to familiar foods. People deserve to have access to crops that are suited for the types of food they know how to cook."] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1235225

[The inequity is striking, no matter which way you slice it. One recent analysis found that the world’s richest 10 percent are responsible for up to 40 percent of global environmental damage, including climate change, while the poorest 10 percent account for less than 5 percent. Another estimated that warming had reduced incomes in the world’s poorest countries by between 17 percent and 30 percent. Poor countries have long sought a kind of reparations for what they call loss ...and damage from climate change. Rich countries, led by the United States and European Union, have resisted, mainly out of concern that they could be saddled with liability claims for climate damage. It doesn’t help that the rich world has failed to deliver on a $100 billion aid package to help poor countries cope, promised as part of the 2015 Paris accord. Coronavirus recovery plans have lately begun to open the door to new discussions about debt relief linked to climate resilience. In June, the Alliance of Small Island Developing States, led by Belize, pressed for what it called a new compact with private and bilateral creditors to deliver debt relief and increase resilience financing. Caribbean countries, with their economies ravaged by hurricanes in recent years, now find themselves falling deeper into debt as the pandemic dries up tourism revenues. A study commissioned by the United Nations found that the 20 most climate-vulnerable countries have paid more than $40 billion in additional interest payments because of losses stemming from extreme weather events.]

[All funds collected will be used for legal fees (filing fees, legal services, correspondence, copies, parking, gas, etc.) and in the case that there might any funds left, those funds will be donated and be used for tribal purposes of the Tongva Nation.] https://gf.me/u/yf2h7z

At the US-Mexico border south of Boulevard, CA, Border Patrol agents plan to use explosives to prepare the ground for 18-ft bollard-style border wall. This is ...a border wall replacement project, meant to replace 12-ft corrugated steel landing mats. The Border Patrol has not properly notified local communities about the project, especially the Kumeyaay, who have a cultural and spiritual interest to this region. Ancestral artifacts and fragments of bones have been found in the area. Explosives will desecrate the earth. On Monday, June 29, Kumeyaay leaders and allies organized a surprise visit to the site, just as the Army Corps of Engineers prepared to detonate the explosives. The group prevented the Army from continuing with the detonation, and had the explosives removed for failure to properly follow the process of community notification. It is likely that the Border Patrol will move forward with their plan of desecrating the land with explosives. The Kumeyaay leaders have asked that community members remain vigilant and continue to follow their lead for continued actions.

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Soul Fire Farm has organized some Black, Indigenous, People of Color led how-to gardening videos, gardening projects, educational resources: https://docs.google.com//18Wa3UJ3xHvMrsvRLy38q/mobilebasic

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From May through October, at Agrotonomy Tower Farms, we will be donating up to 95% of our fruits/vegetables to low-income individuals. Over half of our producti...on is already spoken for, but we still have tons of greens to give away throughout 2020 as our contribution to the economic ramifications of the coronavirus! Although our freshly grown food donation program is only available on the island of Ibiza in Spain, through this post, we wish to inspire other farmers throughout the world to consider donating fresh food to their local communities! We will grow it, and will give it away: our priority goes to single mothers and senior citizens! Please share this post: Sharing food is sharing the love! Sharing this post is inspiring others to share fresh fruits and vegetables whether grown by a farmer or in someone's backyard! PS: We are also the team behind ‘Towers Without Borders’, a nonprofit organization specializing in setting up fully automated aeroponic Tower Farms for disadvantaged communities and orphanages around the world.

In Minneapolis, in the face of organized abandonment from the police: - Community defense units have organized neighborhood by neighborhood and even block by b...lock. In a day. - People are pooling firefighting resources, getting hoses ready, sharing shifts. - American Indian Movement members have been patrolling neighborhoods preventing looters from looting and burning native buildings. - A hotel in the middle of the city has been occupied and community is guarding it from white supremacists while moving 100 unhoused people in. - Bus drivers have refused to ferry people to jail. - Neighbors are going door to door, checking in on people’s needs. - Community meetings are being assembled on the fly in parks. - There are enough accomplices on every block that where there is one Karen telling their neighborhood to call the cops, there is another accomplice building an abolitionist community defense plan. I need y’all to know that a world without police isn’t just possible. It’s already here. And it’s working. And it’s beautiful.