Growing Asian Vegetables in Los Angeles

4117 Overland Avenue,Culver City CA 90230

20 August, 2022

Description

Florence Nishida, Master Gardener and founder of L.A. Green Grounds, returns to the Culver City Garden Club to discuss easy-to-grow Asian vegetables that you can plant in your own local garden -- to compliment your traditional edibles. Her presentation will cover a host of veggies that will introduce you to new and intriguing textures, colors, fragrances, and tastes. In addition, Florence will share "ways to prepare those vegetables - since that's often a stumbling block for many". Go beyond the traditional. Bring more flavors to your garden and table. Join us in the "Garden Room" at the Veterans Memorial Complex in Culver City for our garden club's monthly meeting. You'll meet a lot of friendly gardeners from novices to experts, and get to hear Florence deliver the goods on beautiful, tasty veggies from around Asia. Our monthly meetings are FREE, Family-friendly events, and we'd love to see you. Make Plans to Visit! About the Speaker Florence Nishida is a botanist, mycologist, life-long gardener and one of the original UC Master Gardeners (2008) tasked with teaching Angelenos to garden and grow plants sustainably, with special emphasis on those living in the under-served food deserts of Los Angeles. She's a champion of plants that have a long harvest season and shares ways to cook them. “My mission is to expose people to different things that are easy to grow...If you plant kale, you will have food for months.” In 2010, she co-founded the nonprofit L.A. Green Grounds, with former student Ron Finley (aka, Gangsta Gardener) and Vanessa Vobis. Green Grounds is committed to enabling residents of South Los Angeles to create their own edible gardens. It is the catalyst for "Dig-Ins" community-driven workdays manned by locals and volunteers who transform front yards and parkways into edible, inspirational spaces visible to the public. She is a staunch advocate for the recovery and transformation of barren land and abandoned spaces into blooming oases. In 2013, Florence's activism helped changed minds in L.A. City Council and led to a vote that now allows LA residents to cultivate edibles in their parkways without a permit. Her quote during an interview with the LA Times clearly reinforces her view that "Poor access to good, fresh food led to poor diets that were directly related to poor health among many in the South L.A. communities... It is so satisfying to show how we can transform a very barren, lifeless parcel of ground into a welcome oasis for biological beings, including humans, in the city.”