More help for those who want to grow food in the city
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Whatever will the likes of Ralphs and Whole Foods do if all this grow-your-own really takes off? We wrote about an event behind held Friday in Culver City called HomeGrown, and now an exposition is coming to Santa Monica next spring for four days.
The “Grow Your Own Food Expo” is to be held May 12 to May 15 at the Barker Hangar.
“I am French, I am from Paris. I have been living in France for 48 years. I know nothing about gardening, and when I arrived in L.A. three years ago with my family, I was amazed by the vegetation because it was really different from what I was used to,” says Francoise Lazard, the organizer of the expo.
One day, when she picked up her child from a house in Bel-Air, she noticed a large expanse of lawn and thought about the water needed to keep it green and about the food that could grow instead -- the way owners of large properties would have done in the past.
“My husband is a trade-show organizer, and we began to talk about it,” Lazard says.
“It’s something very important happening -- people returning to farming,” she says. “It’s not happening in France.”
Lazard says the expo will provide information, discussions and products about all aspects of growing food in the city. She expects about 100 exhibitors.
-- Mary MacVean
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