Comments on: Community Services Unlimited: Rocking LA with Food and Beauty

By: Neelum Sharma: Food Not Lawns in Los Angeles | PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:18:43 +0000

[...] Neelam Sharma is the Programs Director for CSU, Community Services Unlimited, an organization empowering South Central Los Angeles residents to eat and grow healthy food. The “Food Not Lawns” attitude towards neighborhoods, I must admit, is infectious. After hanging out with urban and suburban farmers in the last year, we see people watering grass and we gasp. What a waste! CSU encourages and empowers folks to start thinking this way by teaching backyard gardening and reclaiming un-used urban space for food production. Check out their other projects in our previous videoCommunity Services Unlimited: Rocking LA with Food and Beauty. [...]

By: Neelam Sharma: Food Not Lawns in Los Angeles at Ryan Is Hungry

Neelam Sharma: Food Not Lawns in Los Angeles at Ryan Is Hungry — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:13:29 +0000

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By: jay

jay — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:50:41 +0000

I had the same experience when we started growing broccoli. I’m 34 and had no idea that what we buy in stores was just the flower on a huge plant. So disconnected still we started growing food ourselves.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:54:15 +0000

I had a similar experience this year when I visited a farmer’s market. I had no idea spinach actually grows in small bunches, even though it’s one of my favorite foods and I eat it all the time. I also didn’t know it would keep in my refrigerator WEEKS longer than store-bought. It really opened my eyes to how little I know about the foods I’m putting in my body.

Thanks for showcasing programs like this one and giving the rest of us hope and inspiration!