#FreeTheFoodDashboard

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Proyecto Jardín (PJLA), East Los Angeles: 
​Irene Peña
Facebook: Proyecto Jardin;  Instagram: @ProyectoJardin; Twitter: @ProyectoJardin1

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What?

From LA Food Waste Grant Challenge:

• Project Description: PJLA will offer its signature 8-week course, Make Compost, Not War, as a compost academy to an intergenerational cohort of 30 Eastside residents. The course covers the following topics: 1. Compost Prescription for Healing our City Soil, 2. Composting Biology: Microbes y Mas, 3. Building the Compost Pile, 4. A Soil Food Web Under Your Feet, 5. Vermiculture: Building and Caring for Your Worm Farm, 6. Compost Applications: Compost Tea and Other Applications, 7. Four Composting Systems, 8. Troubleshooting Compost Problems. PJLA will offer one separate introductory gardening workshop to demonstrate food waste prevention using a culinary/medicinal herb garden and a salad garden to grow your own food. ​ 

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Sankey diagram: weighted flows

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Quote

"Sustainability comes from being connected to a community" - ​Irene Peña
"This is part of the teaching -- sharing stories" - ​Irene Peña

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WorldCloud

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Metrics

Metrics from the field, including:

• number of Projecto Jardin participants in Compost Academy
• ​number of Projecto Jardin participants in Pop-ups
• recipe: 3-bin compost + pounds of food scraps used
• recipe: compost pit + pounds of food scraps used
• recipe: worm bin + pounds of food scraps used
• recipe: compost tumbler + pounds of food scraps used
• number of participating container gardeners
• pounds of soil delivered to container gardens

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Pics

Pics from the field

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Resources

Resources

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Tags

#FreeTheFood, #FreeTheFoodDashboard

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