Love Apples replanted with the city

It was a warm, early morning in El Sereno, Los Angeles. Soon after I arrived, Rudy, the Lead Senior Gardener for the area for the Dept. of Public Works, and Vicky, another employee from the Dept of Public Works, drove up in their bright orange pick ups with the tomato plants in the back. [...]

City Authorizes Replanting of Removed Tomato Plants

On Wed, July 9th, there was a meeting with the city to discuss the LOVE APPLES project, a collaboration of Fallen Fruit and Islands of LA. In attendance were representatives from Public Works as well as the Department of Cultural Affairs. We discussed the project, their concerns about safety and the city’s general view [...]

Love Apples and community members replant 19 uprooted tomato plants

As part of Love Apples, on Saturday June 16, at 9am we happy few met on an island in Glassell Park. It was the site of the disappearance of 19 tomato plants uprooted a few weeks earlier. At the San Fernando Road concert, we met Helene Schpak and Margaret Arnold, who are active community members [...]

Love Apples participates in the Habeas Index and San Fernando Road Concert

This past weekend Love Apples set up a display at the Habeas Index, a project by Linda Pollack located at Fig and 7th in downtown Los Angeles.
The display remains up and continues to spark discussions. We had a great time!
Love Apples also participated in Stephen van Dyck’s San Fernando Road concert. Many [...]

SALSA SALSA

SALSA SALSA
What: Salsa Salsa, a Celebration of Love Apples (Press Release)
Type: Public Art Event in which we make salsa while dancing to salsa music together and
enjoying a free salsa concert and dance class
When: Sun August 17th, 3 to 7 p.m.
Where: Farmlab, 1745 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Free to the public
Come to [...]

Rapid Planting of Love on the Islands of LA

Shovels, soil, seaweed, water jug and potted plants in flatbed, we traveled the local proximity. We rapid planters moved with the nimble velocity of athletes or assembly line robots but our movements were rooted in the earth and the love of its bountiful fruit. We were elegant…in a traffic island gardener sort of way…using the [...]

Love Apples & Iraq (& the first Island Dweller post)

While planting the Love Apple (tomato) plants today a woman approached me to thank me for the new plants. “Are those tomato plants” she asked? I told her about the project. We got to talking and she told me her story…that her son was a soldier in Iraq and now has stage [...]

Love Apples begins

At the first island we felt nervous, wondering if everything would go ok. Matias taught me how to plant the tomatoes. We planted 4 tomato plants into the wet ground on a nicely irrigated island. But Matias was feeling sick and Dave couldn’t join us as he was at home with the flu so I [...]