The City of Los Angeles is giving away 1,000 55-gallon water barrels to LA residents.  To qualify, you must sign up for and attend one of their water conservation workshops, currently scheduled for March 14, March 28, and April 15.  For more information, visit www.scpr.org. View image | gettyimages.com  

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”   — American writer and humorist, Lewis Grizzard Tomatomania! is coming soon! Throughout March and April, lucky SoCal gardeners will get access to over 300 varieties of heirloom and hybrid tomato seedlings. This exciting bounty comes compliments of the largest annual tomato seedling sale in the country, […]

If you missed SLOLA’s new Online Seed School last year, this is a great way to conveniently get the info you need about seed. The program is an online educational series comprised of weekly, 1½ hour webinars, which are recorded for online access anytime. The series will run 7-weeks, patterned after Seed School developed in 2010. The program has graduated over […]

Tune in for great gardening advice! Mike Ventura’s The Garden Hour is on KCAA 1050fm from 12:05 to 12:59 pm each Saturday through April 4. The toll-free number to call in is 888-909-1050. Or listen online at http://podcasts.kcaastreaming.com/garden/#

Need free wooden stakes for your garden project or spring planting? A distributor of General Motors Accessories to GM dealers has thousands of wooden sticks to give away.  Each pine stick is 3/4″ square and 4-6′ tall and is perfect for stakes for beans, tomatoes, and other climbing plants. They have a constant supply of 2,000-3,000 of these per month.  […]

January 4th, 2015 — Executive Director Julie Beals spoke with the host of the radio program “5900 Wilshire” (100.3 The Sound) about the wonders and benefits of community gardening. Learn how to get started with your own community garden plot! Listen to the interview online through January 25th, 2015.

Our nation’s number one food security guard, the honeybee, is dying by the thousands. In recent years, nearly one third of commercial bee colonies in the U.S. have been dying over the winter. And in Oregon last summer roughly 50,000 bumblebees dropped dead after being exposed to a pesticide sprayed on trees for purely aesthetic purposes. The situation is so […]