My Roots

09/08/2012

My Roots loves what Enrich LA is doing for school gardens in our city. Join us and volunteer to build a school garden in LA, or use them as a template to start your own school garden building program.

It's so easy to sign up and participate, and they feed you an amazing lunch!

http://enrichla.org/volunteering/

Sign up to volunteer at one of our “build days” which are usually held on Saturdays from nine to two. You will join about 50 other volunteers and you will be asked to do anything from gardening, to carpentry, to plumbing, to sign painting and really whatever it takes to install a garden. Our build...

02/22/2012

Congrats to the designers of Portable Park for making it happen!!

A series of installations, performances and public programs addressing issues of environmental sustainability and consumer culture.

01/31/2012

I just signed a petition to President Barack Obama: President Obama, I oppose your appointment of Michael Taylor, a former VP and Lobbyist for Monsanto, the widely criticized Genetically Modified (GM) food multinational as Senior Advisor to the Commissioner at the FDA. Taylor is the same person who ...

12/13/2011

Inspiring!

When most of the residents abandoned her northeast Detroit neighborhood, Edith tore out the remains of the houses and started planting food. Today she's "blotting" on 28 lots.

12/12/2011

Email us if you'd like to buy a MyRoots sprouting cup for a holiday gift. They include care and transplanting instructions right on the cup!

12/12/2011

MyRoots is partnering with local coffee shops to upcycle coffee cups into our lovely urban farm sprouting cups.

12/08/2011

Cool photos from our Urban Roots Benefit event // Venice, CA

12/06/2011

Amazing night @ the Urban Roots Benefit! Thanks to everyone who purchased My Roots starter kits.

12/02/2011

My Roots is excited to launch at the Urban Roots Benefit w/ WELO Venice! Look for us this saturday and take home some inspiration.

Shepard Fairey / Obey Giant supports Urban Roots. For more info on this film and benefit set to hit Venice this Sat, check out WELO: http://bit.ly/vSth1n.

We're soopa stoked to be a part of this amazing movement and event

11/24/2011

Come check out this event we are sponsoring December 3rd to put farms in schools. Tickets are going fast and space is limited. Purchase tickets here!

Artist Anthony James partners with documentary film Urban Roots to put farms in schools. Director, Mark MacInnis of the highly acclaimed documentary film Urban Roots has partnered with celebrated contemporary artist Anthony James to fund the creation of farms in schools. On December 3, 2011, MacIn...

11/15/2011

Thanks to Eco-Products of Bolder for supporting My Roots! Their generous donation of three thousand cups is a major help in getting farms in schools in 2012. These cups will be on sale at our Dec 3rd Urban Roots fundraiser for our Garfield Highschool farm in East LA. www.ecoproducts.com

11/12/2011

EMPOWERING /// Students, parents, and teachers sprout this kit themselves, and take ownership of fundraising for their school gardens.