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Build community.
Improve the environment.
A project of Cultivating Sustainable Communities
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We will soon be developing workshops and training for new farmers and for those interested in refining their farming skills. Please check back with us again for these opportunities...
Links and Resources
Greywater Guerrillas
The Greywater Guerrillas are a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure. They teach about sustainable water use through hands-on workshops and presentations.
American Community Garden Association
The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities. The Mission of the American Community Gardening Association is to build community by increasing and enhancing community gardening and greening across the United States and Canada.
Los Angeles Community Garden Council
The mission of The Los Angeles Community Garden Council (a non-profit corporation) is to connect people with community garden space in their neighborhood. We are a group of community gardeners who work together to try to solve common problems. Council members each provide the services that they are best equipped to, and coordinate their efforts to accomplish our mission.
Community food security represents a comprehensive strategy to address many of the ills affecting our society and environment due to an unsustainable and unjust food system. Following are six basic principles of community food security:
Low income food needs, broad goals, community focus, self-reliance/empowerment, local agriculture, systems oriented.
Urban & Environmental Policy Institute - Center for Food and Justice
Welcome to the Center for Food & Justice (CFJ), a division of UEPI. With its vision of a sustainable and socially just food system, CFJ engages in collaborative action strategies, community capacity-building, and research and education.
