Calling all Mar Vista’s Green Gardeners! The 2012 Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase has been scheduled for Saturday, April 21st from 10am to 4pm, as part of a City-wide Earth Day Celebration.
Mark your calendars to take the tour – and if you’d like your garden to be included, please contact the Mar Vista Green Committee and fill out their Garden Questionnaire.
The Mar Vista Community Council Green Committee will meet this Sunday, October 23rd at 9:30am at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market. 
Come join the Committee that brought you the Mar Vista Green Garden Tour three years running, as well as the Wise Water Expo and the Wise Power Expo. Agenda items include: the Urban Beekeeping Study, possible letter of support for the Fair Farm Bill, planning of 2012 Green Garden Tour and much more. See the full agenda here.
Open Neighborhoods and the Sierra Club’s LA Beyond Coal Campaign present the Westside Solar Tour this Saturday, October 1, from 10am to 5pm.
This is a free, self-guided tour. See the Westside Solar Tour website for maps and details and please rsvp on Facebook.
Amy Devers is a designer, artist, maker, lifestyle expert, and television personality. Wednesday, September 21, she’ll be at Whole Foods West LA market and “It’s All About Cork!”
She can be seen all over TV and the internet. Check her out as the host and designer who maximizes curb appeal on “Fix This Yard” (A&E.) In her web-series, “Urban Eco,” she demonstrates fun and creative ideas for living healthier more sustainable lives.
Meet Amy and create an “Eco Chic” item to compliment your home!
Whole Foods West LA, 11666 National Blvd., Mar Vista 90064
Join Open Neighborhoods as they launch the first Green Business Mixer here in Mar Vista! Wednesday evening, September 21st, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm on the lovely outdoor patio shared by Venice Grind and Earl’s Gourmet Grub.
Please help Ocean View Farms win $4000 from DeLoach Vineyards! They are in the running, currently ranked at #4, and they need your vote every day between now and August 1. It takes just a few moments of your time and it could have such a big impact on this fantastic urban community farm. Click here to vote for Ocean View Farms – they’re the garden in the top right corner – and then remember to vote every day until August 1st! Thank you!
Los Angeles now recycles milk, juice and soup cartons!
Read all about it on the LA Times’ Greenspace Blog.
Have you seen the documentary The Vanishing of the Bees
Do you remember when my house was swarmed by bees?
That was actually the third time that’s happened at my house.
So clearly the bees love Mar Vista as much as I do. And since they’re already buzzing around here, there are people who want to try a pilot project for legal beekeeping here in the City of LA. (Yes, that means it currently illegal.)
Even though it’s legal in Santa Monica, which, as you know, is mere yards from the border of MV.
So if you have an opinion about this issue, please come to Tuesday night’s Mar Vista Community Council meeting and share your thoughts. It’s merely the first hurdle on the way to making this pilot project a go, and this is real democracy in action, folks. All politics is local, right?
Mar Vista Community Council Meeting, Tuesday, June 14, 7pm, at Mar Vista Park Rec Center, 11430 Woodbine Street, Mar Vista 90066
2011 Bike Week LA takes place May 16 – 20! And here on the Westside, LA Streetsblog is hosting a Pre-Bike Week Kickoff event on Saturday, May 14th with the Westside Ride to the Venice Pier!
Meet at St. Andrews Church Saturday, May 14th at 10:30am for the ride down Barrington to Venice Blvd and from there all the way to the Pacific Ocean – more details on the Westside Ride on the FB page.
Photo credit: Inmagine.
Now in its 18th year, the Venice Garden and Home Tour is the much-anticipated annual fundraising event that draws visitors from all over California. The tour gives financial support for NYA’s Las Doradas Children’s Center, a licensed child care facility that provides full-time, education-based child care to low-income working families.
For tickets and information, please visit The Venice Garden Tour‘s website.
