Today at the (East) garden

Lovely cloudy day. Here's some lavender

and delphinium

and closed delphinium flowers

and hello praying mantis!  Wow your mouth is creepy (no offense).

Praying mantis hid deep in a bush but got photographed again anyway. Here you see him or her rolling his or her eyes about it.

and these two were deep in negotiations about ladybug futures.

Community Garden Construction starts tomorrow

Hi Gardeners!

As many of you have heard and seen in the SC minutes, Home Depot is sponsoring a serious upgrade to our garden by adding new plants to landscape, installing a pergola, and creating a pathway. Construction for this work begins tomorrow. We apologize for any inconvenience, but I want to make sure you all get the heads up in case you see workers there in the next few weeks.

If anything comes up that you think we need to be aware of, just let me know. Thanks much!

Best,

Alek Bartrosouf


P.S. I hope to see you all at the Gathering of the Community Gardens event this Saturday. Its a free event and open to the public. The LA Community Garden Council, who is hosting this event and is on its 5th year, is the leasee of our Glendale Gardens and it would be great to show our support and solidarity among gardeners from all over Los Angeles. See event details at the link below and also on the attached brochure.

http://lagardencouncil.org/oct-22-2011-save-the-date/

You can also 'attend' on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200891673316690

Monterey Road Eco-Community Garden (West) featured in the LA Times Home and Garden blog!

At Glendale community garden, a compulsion for compost

October 19, 2011 | 3:42 pm

Community Gardens Dispatch No. 50: Monterey Road Eco-Community Garden (West), Glendale

It’s transition time at the Monterey Road Eco-Community Garden (West) in Glendale, and plot partners Lindsey Hansen and Tom Selling are putting in lettuce, peas, potatoes, onions and garlic. But before anything new got planted, they harvested their most important crop of the year: compost from a pair of stackable bins they got free from the Glendale Integrated Waste Management Section.

Hansen and Selling, at right, are part of a team of seven who have made composting a group project at the garden. Four more Integrated Waste Management compost bins are assembled, but they’re empty or filled with non-composting green waste.

In contrast, the bins of the composting team are full to the brim, an inch-thick layer of dried oak leaves on top. Hansen collected 30 bags of raked detritus from her grandmother’s backyard lawn to serve as a ready supply of material to keep the compost bins’ mixture aerobic and balanced, and the attention to detail has clearly paid off.

(Read the rest here!)

You Are Invited | Greening Glendale’s Future: Brainstorming Session and Potluck

Dear Green Glendaliens,

The Coalition for a Green Glendale is hosting its first-ever brainstorming session and potluck, and you are invited! Network with like-minded locals, enjoy delicious food (potluck-style), and get ready to talk about greening Glendale's future.

Team leaders will semi-moderate a roundtable discussion focusing on some practical programs and policies that can be prospectively implemented to promote sustainable living. With your input, we want to start a dialogue. The afternoon will culminate with a summary of our ideas and a collective vote on which priorities the Coalition should pursue.

If you would like to attend this special event, you must RSVP by responding to the following Evite by Sunday, October 16th. Please include with your RSVP what you would like to bring for the potluck...

http://new.evite.com/#view_invite:eid=03A2AAQZXGL24EBIWEPA5Y4F474HAA

Space is limited. The first 40 people to RSVP will be able to attend.

For further details, please see the attached event flyer. We look forward to seeing you and please forward to anyone you think may be interested. Thanks for your ongoing support!

Best,

Coalition for a Green Glendale
818-359-0108

P.S. This event was originally scheduled forOctober 8th. We quickly realized the significance of that date for some of our supporters. In observance of Yom Kippur, the event has moved to Sunday, October 23rd. Please disregard our previous 'save the date' email for October 8th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Hey everybody


I've brought these cookies to a couple of work days and got several requests for the recipe so here it is for everyone.  


Peanut Butter Choco Cookies Recipe

2 1/3 c. all purpose flour
1/3 c. cocoa powder
1/3 c. peanut flour (can substitute almond flour or almond meal)
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 c. sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven 350º.  Mix dry ingredients, and in a separate bowl beat butter and sugar together, then add egg and vanilla.  Add dry ingredients and beat until combined.  Make 1 - 2" diameter circles and bake on a cookie sheet 7 - 9 mins.