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At Food ED, we cultivate healthy ecosystems through education and community partnerships by nurturing sustainable spaces in the San Gabriel Valley.

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Who wants FREE compost? FREE raffles? FREE worm bins? FREE food distribution? FREE education, crafts, activities, giveaways, and resources?! Register today for all of these goodies and more! 🌟
Join us for Compostpalooza, coming up on Saturday, March 8th from 9am to 12pm at Monrovia Community Garden 303 W. Colorado Blvd
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Register now with the link in our bio! 🌱♻️🪱
#communityevent #monrovia #compost #composting #communitycomposting

Who wants FREE compost? FREE raffles? FREE worm bins? FREE food distribution? FREE education, crafts, activities, giveaways, and resources?! Register today for all of these goodies and more! 🌟
Join us for Compostpalooza, coming up on Saturday, March 8th from 9am to 12pm at Monrovia Community Garden 303 W. Colorado Blvd
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Register now with the link in our bio! 🌱♻️🪱
#communityevent #monrovia #compost #composting #communitycomposting

Looking for a regular way to be active in your community? We’ll be hosting a volunteer day one Saturday per month at different locations. We’ll be refreshing, beautifying, and revitalizing school and community gardens and green spaces in the San Gabriel Valley! Come join us for our first monthly volunteer day on Saturday, March 1st, from 9am-12pm at Wild Rose Elementary School! 🌱
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#monrovia #sangabrielvalley #volunteer #volunteeropportunities #schoolgarden

Looking for a regular way to be active in your community? We’ll be hosting a volunteer day one Saturday per month at different locations. We’ll be refreshing, beautifying, and revitalizing school and community gardens and green spaces in the San Gabriel Valley! Come join us for our first monthly volunteer day on Saturday, March 1st, from 9am-12pm at Wild Rose Elementary School! 🌱
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#monrovia #sangabrielvalley #volunteer #volunteeropportunities #schoolgarden

Meet Ky! Ky is one of our second year @caclimateaction fellows, and is one of our resident compost experts! You can find her in elementary schools teaching kids to compost, checking on our community bins, or collecting compostable scraps from the community! Want to learn more from this expert composter? Come to Compostpalooza on Saturday, March 8th from 9am to 12pm with all your compost questions! ♻️🪱
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We’ll be highlighting more of our team every week. Say hi in the comments!

Meet Ky! Ky is one of our second year @caclimateaction fellows, and is one of our resident compost experts! You can find her in elementary schools teaching kids to compost, checking on our community bins, or collecting compostable scraps from the community! Want to learn more from this expert composter? Come to Compostpalooza on Saturday, March 8th from 9am to 12pm with all your compost questions! ♻️🪱
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We’ll be highlighting more of our team every week. Say hi in the comments!

CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY! 🗳️🌟 We’re floored by these nominations and grateful to do this work! Thank you @monroviachamber for everything you do and for this community to nominate us! Link in our bio and you can visit bit.ly/votemccawardsgala to vote for Food ED for Non-profit of the Year!

CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY! 🗳️🌟 We’re floored by these nominations and grateful to do this work! Thank you @monroviachamber for everything you do and for this community to nominate us! Link in our bio and you can visit bit.ly/votemccawardsgala to vote for Food ED for Non-profit of the Year!

Here are some garden cards to share with your honey! 🐝 Happy Valentine’s Day from the Food ED team!
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#valentinesday #valentinecards #valentinescards #valentine #gardening

Here are some garden cards to share with your honey! 🐝 Happy Valentine’s Day from the Food ED team!
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#valentinesday #valentinecards #valentinescards #valentine #gardening

Compostpalooza is happening soon! Join us Saturday, March 8th, from 9am-12pm for all kinds of compost fun! ♻️🪱 Join us for crafts, giveaways, free compost, and more! Thank you Mayor of Monrovia, Becky Shevlin, for helping us spread the word about Compostpalooza! Thank you to @cityofmonrovia for your active partnership and support! Register today with the link in our bio.
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#composting #communitycomposting #monrovia #sangabrielvalley #compost

Compostpalooza is happening soon! Join us Saturday, March 8th, from 9am-12pm for all kinds of compost fun! ♻️🪱 Join us for crafts, giveaways, free compost, and more! Thank you Mayor of Monrovia, Becky Shevlin, for helping us spread the word about Compostpalooza! Thank you to @cityofmonrovia for your active partnership and support! Register today with the link in our bio.
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#composting #communitycomposting #monrovia #sangabrielvalley #compost

Mark your calendars for March events! We hope you’ll join us for some of our upcoming events and volunteer opportunities! There are so many new things launching this Spring! Register with the link in our bio or visit our website today explorefooded.org. Additional registration links and more information and reminders for will be posted soon, so keep an eye on our page for updates! 🍀
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#marchevents #volunteer #sangabrielvalley #volunteeropportunities #monrovia #arcadia

Mark your calendars for March events! We hope you’ll join us for some of our upcoming events and volunteer opportunities! There are so many new things launching this Spring! Register with the link in our bio or visit our website today explorefooded.org. Additional registration links and more information and reminders for will be posted soon, so keep an eye on our page for updates! 🍀
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#marchevents #volunteer #sangabrielvalley #volunteeropportunities #monrovia #arcadia

Meet our Garden Coordinator and Educator, Jennifer! From helping community garden plotholders to guiding students, Jenn can be found helping someone somewhere! Jennifer was previously a @caclimateaction fellow with us, and we are so lucky to have her on our staff this year! 🌱
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We’ll be highlighting more of our team every week. Say hi in the comments!

Meet our Garden Coordinator and Educator, Jennifer! From helping community garden plotholders to guiding students, Jenn can be found helping someone somewhere! Jennifer was previously a @caclimateaction fellow with us, and we are so lucky to have her on our staff this year! 🌱
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We’ll be highlighting more of our team every week. Say hi in the comments!

7th graders at Clifton have been learning to apply their classroom education about habitats and ecology to the garden! Each period selected their very own habitat project, and created an area of the garden suited for their critters and creatures! We’ll soon be seeing even more helpful bugs, birds, lizards, butterflies, and even bats in the garden! 🦋
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#schoolgarden #bughotel #critters #gardencritters #pollinators🐝 #pollinators

7th graders at Clifton have been learning to apply their classroom education about habitats and ecology to the garden! Each period selected their very own habitat project, and created an area of the garden suited for their critters and creatures! We’ll soon be seeing even more helpful bugs, birds, lizards, butterflies, and even bats in the garden! 🦋
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#schoolgarden #bughotel #critters #gardencritters #pollinators🐝 #pollinators

Lots going on at the corner at Monrovia Community Garden! Thank you to all the volunteers from @volunteercenterofsangabvalley and members of the community that joined us for a tandem tree pruning workshop and volunteer event! So much to grow in 2025 and we are looking forward to all of it!
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#monrovia #volunteer #communitygarden #garden #monroviaca #tree #prunetrees

Lots going on at the corner at Monrovia Community Garden! Thank you to all the volunteers from @volunteercenterofsangabvalley and members of the community that joined us for a tandem tree pruning workshop and volunteer event! So much to grow in 2025 and we are looking forward to all of it!
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#monrovia #volunteer #communitygarden #garden #monroviaca #tree #prunetrees

Mark your calendars for Compostpalooza! We’ll be giving away FREE compost, hosting FREE workshops and kids activities, giving away make and take worm bins, and holding raffles for compost bins and tumblers! See the flyer for all the exciting details, we hope to see you there! 🌎🌱🪱
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#compost #communitycomposting #composting #wormbin #monrovia #sangabrielvalley

Mark your calendars for Compostpalooza! We’ll be giving away FREE compost, hosting FREE workshops and kids activities, giving away make and take worm bins, and holding raffles for compost bins and tumblers! See the flyer for all the exciting details, we hope to see you there! 🌎🌱🪱
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#compost #communitycomposting #composting #wormbin #monrovia #sangabrielvalley

Meet our Community Engagement Director, Rochelle! Rochelle is often behind the scenes working on community events and outreach, with projects like the recent launch of FED Kitchen, bringing education and garden-focused eating to the community. 🌱
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We’ll be highlighting more staff from our team every week. Say hi in the comments!

Meet our Community Engagement Director, Rochelle! Rochelle is often behind the scenes working on community events and outreach, with projects like the recent launch of FED Kitchen, bringing education and garden-focused eating to the community. 🌱
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We’ll be highlighting more staff from our team every week. Say hi in the comments!

This week we launched FED kitchen to bring healthy eating and cooking education to schools and the community! We made veggie pizzas with fresh ingredients at Temple City High School to celebrate students’ hard work in the garden, and hosted a pickle and paint workshop with Creative World Art Center! Thank you to Sprouts and Southern California Edison for helping make this happen! 🍓🥕🌽🥦🫐🍆
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#schoolgarden #healthyeating #gardentotable #steameducation #cookingworkshop

This week we launched FED kitchen to bring healthy eating and cooking education to schools and the community! We made veggie pizzas with fresh ingredients at Temple City High School to celebrate students’ hard work in the garden, and hosted a pickle and paint workshop with Creative World Art Center! Thank you to Sprouts and Southern California Edison for helping make this happen! 🍓🥕🌽🥦🫐🍆
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#schoolgarden #healthyeating #gardentotable #steameducation #cookingworkshop

We’re invested in supporting San Gabriel Valley and LA communities for the long haul! We have met some new friends in our school garden programs that have moved to new schools, and we’re happy to give our displaced buddies 150 new wriggly friends and welcome them to their new gardens! 🪱
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#schoolgardens #vermicomposting #vermicompost #wormbin #steameducation

We’re invested in supporting San Gabriel Valley and LA communities for the long haul! We have met some new friends in our school garden programs that have moved to new schools, and we’re happy to give our displaced buddies 150 new wriggly friends and welcome them to their new gardens! 🪱
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#schoolgardens #vermicomposting #vermicompost #wormbin #steameducation

Food scrap collection at the Monrovia Farmer’s Market will continue every Saturday from 9am-12pm at Station Square Park! Turn your food waste into compost for your community! 🌱♻️
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#compost #communitycomposting #composting

Food scrap collection at the Monrovia Farmer’s Market will continue every Saturday from 9am-12pm at Station Square Park! Turn your food waste into compost for your community! 🌱♻️
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#compost #communitycomposting #composting

Part two in our remediation series. Here’s some helpful tips on soil testing and clean up as well as tree advice. We’re here to help if you have questions. Be safe LA 💚🌳

Part two in our remediation series. Here’s some helpful tips on soil testing and clean up as well as tree advice. We’re here to help if you have questions. Be safe LA 💚🌳

Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the ongoing fires and loss. Our team is safe. And we are grieving with all of our neighbors facing new realities. We will continue to help however we can. We’ve had a number of people reach out about garden and food safety so in the next week we will be sharing science-based info on food and garden issues. If you have questions about your gardens or what our compost bins can take, DM us. We’re happy to help.

Our thoughts are with everyone affected by the ongoing fires and loss. Our team is safe. And we are grieving with all of our neighbors facing new realities. We will continue to help however we can. We’ve had a number of people reach out about garden and food safety so in the next week we will be sharing science-based info on food and garden issues. If you have questions about your gardens or what our compost bins can take, DM us. We’re happy to help.

🌬️🌳 Stay safe out there! If you can safely support your young trees, a lull in wind strength might be the right time to do it. January is a great time to prune some trees. Learn and practice fruit tree pruning on 1/18 at 303 W. Colorado Blvd. 🍑 🍎We’re all out here doing our best!

🌬️🌳 Stay safe out there! If you can safely support your young trees, a lull in wind strength might be the right time to do it. January is a great time to prune some trees. Learn and practice fruit tree pruning on 1/18 at 303 W. Colorado Blvd. 🍑 🍎We’re all out here doing our best!

Thank you Monrovia Schools and Temple City High School for an amazing year! We had a year full of fun with students, learning lots of garden lessons, eating yummy garden snacks, and planting hundreds of trees and plants for our school communities! 🌱 We can’t wait to keep growing and exploring with you in 2025!
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#schoolgardens #kidsgarden #steameducation #gardeneducation #gardening

Thank you Monrovia Schools and Temple City High School for an amazing year! We had a year full of fun with students, learning lots of garden lessons, eating yummy garden snacks, and planting hundreds of trees and plants for our school communities! 🌱 We can’t wait to keep growing and exploring with you in 2025!
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#schoolgardens #kidsgarden #steameducation #gardeneducation #gardening

As we close out 2024 we could not be more grateful for this incredible year at Food ED. Special thanks to our community partners, our board, our friends and neighbors, and everyone who has cheered us on this year. As we ramp up for 2025 (our 5th birthday!!), we are reflecting on how far we’ve come as a team and organization. Here’s to finishing 2024 strong and to another beautiful chapter of growth at Food ED.
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As we close out 2024 we could not be more grateful for this incredible year at Food ED. Special thanks to our community partners, our board, our friends and neighbors, and everyone who has cheered us on this year. As we ramp up for 2025 (our 5th birthday!!), we are reflecting on how far we’ve come as a team and organization. Here’s to finishing 2024 strong and to another beautiful chapter of growth at Food ED.
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Wishing you a ✨bright and peace-filled✨ holiday season from all of us at Food ED no matter how you celebrate. May we grow together and root deeply in the new year. 💚🌱

Wishing you a ✨bright and peace-filled✨ holiday season from all of us at Food ED no matter how you celebrate. May we grow together and root deeply in the new year. 💚🌱

Happy holidays from the Food ED team! We’ve had a day of team building and celebrating a wonderful 2024 🌱
Now time for some team competition! Take a look at our gingerbread gardens and vote for your favorite number (see top right corner) in the comments! ⬇️

Happy holidays from the Food ED team! We’ve had a day of team building and celebrating a wonderful 2024 🌱
Now time for some team competition! Take a look at our gingerbread gardens and vote for your favorite number (see top right corner) in the comments! ⬇️

Students at Santa Fe planted a new pollinator space, to bring native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators to our garden! This was made possible by the @xercessociety Habitat Kits that are making their way into our expanding secondary spaces! We discussed what it means for a plant or other organism to be native to a place, and the importance of supporting our local biodiversity. Get ready for a lot of Spring activity and observations! 🌱🌼🦋🐝
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#schoolgarden #nativeplants #pollinators #xercessociety #californianativeplants

Students at Santa Fe planted a new pollinator space, to bring native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators to our garden! This was made possible by the @xercessociety Habitat Kits that are making their way into our expanding secondary spaces! We discussed what it means for a plant or other organism to be native to a place, and the importance of supporting our local biodiversity. Get ready for a lot of Spring activity and observations! 🌱🌼🦋🐝
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#schoolgarden #nativeplants #pollinators #xercessociety #californianativeplants

Tis the season to compost your organic waste! Check out this holiday compost guide for information about how to compost your decorations like mistletoe, candles, and holiday foods! Happy holidays and happy composting! 🌱♻️
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#compost #composting #communitycomposting #foodwaste #organicwaste #holidaycomposting

Tis the season to compost your organic waste! Check out this holiday compost guide for information about how to compost your decorations like mistletoe, candles, and holiday foods! Happy holidays and happy composting! 🌱♻️
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#compost #composting #communitycomposting #foodwaste #organicwaste #holidaycomposting

Thank you everyone who joined us at Brew Hum Bug! We loved being able to engage the community with the important critters that help our ecosystem, especially highlighting what our native pollinators do for our native plants! We also got to celebrate a wonderful year of lots of volunteer and community support, while also supporting a local small business! Thank you everyone who attended, and thank you @mtlowebrewing , we can’t wait to see what next year brings 🪲
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#bugs #californianativeplants #pollinators #pollinator #communityevent

Thank you everyone who joined us at Brew Hum Bug! We loved being able to engage the community with the important critters that help our ecosystem, especially highlighting what our native pollinators do for our native plants! We also got to celebrate a wonderful year of lots of volunteer and community support, while also supporting a local small business! Thank you everyone who attended, and thank you @mtlowebrewing , we can’t wait to see what next year brings 🪲
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#bugs #californianativeplants #pollinators #pollinator #communityevent

Happy Holidays from all of us at Team Food ED! We loved seeing everyone’s festive spirit and celebrating with our hand crafted veggies (by our own @art.by.kell ) at the Monrovia Holiday Parade. Have a great holiday season!
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Happy Holidays from all of us at Team Food ED! We loved seeing everyone’s festive spirit and celebrating with our hand crafted veggies (by our own @art.by.kell ) at the Monrovia Holiday Parade. Have a great holiday season!
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We’re helping take food waste out of the landfill. Check out this video for composting in a tumbler or learn how you can participate in an easier way to help create compost in your community! 🌱♻️🪱🥒🥦
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#compost #communitycomposting #composting #foodwaste #foodscraps

We’re helping take food waste out of the landfill. Check out this video for composting in a tumbler or learn how you can participate in an easier way to help create compost in your community! 🌱♻️🪱🥒🥦
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#compost #communitycomposting #composting #foodwaste #foodscraps

This season we’re grateful for our growing team! Say hi to Team Food ED! 👋🌱

This season we’re grateful for our growing team! Say hi to Team Food ED! 👋🌱

Pies are officially going out to be enjoyed by our community! Thank you all for helping bake it happen 🥧 Thank you to our wonderful partners @jennaspiesales for making so many pies for this monumental annual pie fundraiser. Seriously the best folks ever! With the help of oven space @sauteacademy over 20 pies were donated to Foothill Unity Center @foothillunitycenter by you, our end of year donors! 🥧 We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday filled with gratitude and pie!

Pies are officially going out to be enjoyed by our community! Thank you all for helping bake it happen 🥧 Thank you to our wonderful partners @jennaspiesales for making so many pies for this monumental annual pie fundraiser. Seriously the best folks ever! With the help of oven space @sauteacademy over 20 pies were donated to Foothill Unity Center @foothillunitycenter by you, our end of year donors! 🥧 We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday filled with gratitude and pie!

Thank you so much to everyone who supported our 2024 pie fundraiser! We did it! We hit our goal of 100 pies and raised funds to support over a dozen school and community garden spaces. Because of your support we are ending the year strong so we can continue to help our communities blossom. 🌸 Now what you’ve all been waiting for: It’s pie time, Kristin!! 🥧

Thank you so much to everyone who supported our 2024 pie fundraiser! We did it! We hit our goal of 100 pies and raised funds to support over a dozen school and community garden spaces. Because of your support we are ending the year strong so we can continue to help our communities blossom. 🌸 Now what you’ve all been waiting for: It’s pie time, Kristin!! 🥧

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