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Artisanal LA Holiday Market – Old Pasadena
Saturday, December 5, 11am-8pm

Shopping –

Photos with Santa Unique Holiday Gifts and more. LA Made – Made in the USA

• 150 Local Makers
• 150 Indie Businesses
• 3 City Streets & Alleys
• Holly Street and Beyond
• Free – Family Friendly
• More info at www.artisanalla.com

From drought to floods: How MULCH can help and how you can get yours.

If we haven’t already converted our lawns, we will soon, so we need to get new plants started. We understand that el Nino will bring heavy rains, so we need ways to capture that water. But soil experts explain that the drought has actually made flooding more likely by diminishing the soil’s capacity to soak up moisture

Whether Nature sends us too little or too much rain, it also provides trees to help us. When we place chipped tree-wood mulch on soil, heavy rain lands on many surfaces, which breaks its velocity and allows the rain to stay and soak in instead of racing off to the ocean. It provides water for our trees long after the rainy day and some reaches the aquifer to be pumped out and purified for the drinking water no longer available to import.

So how can we get enough of this versatile mulch to cover all our bare soil? Pasadena provides some free mulch and can learn from other cities ways to provide more. We need you to come help make that happen.

Learn from experts: Leigh Adams of the LA County Arboretum, Melanie Winter of The River Project and Water LA; Greg Jones of Long Beach Public Works and Charles Peretz of Pasadena Public Works. Moderator Sarah Leone of Hollywood food Guild will invite you to share your ideas too.

State of the Mulch 2, Tuesday, December 8 at The Shed, 1355 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena, 91103: mingle at 6:30, panel at 7:00. Presented by Mulch for the People, a project of Transition Pasadena, and by Zanja Madre.

Lin Griffith

Seed Bakery Pasadena Opening

942 East Washington Blvd. Pasadena CA  91104

323.302.2998

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Le Mesnager Barn La Crescenta 100 Years Wine Making in Los Angeles
Le Mesnager Barn offers visitors the closest thing in Southern California to an authentic French farmhouse. Using local river rock, the French Le Mesnager family built the barn in 1914 and used it to store grapes for their downtown Los Angeles winery. Today, the City of Glendale has restored the barn as part of Deukmejian Wilderness Park. Visitors can enjoy a short loop trail, picnic area, and spectacular views of the La Crescenta Valley and Verdugo Mountains. A modest vineyard tended by the Stonebarn Vineyard Conservancy still produces a small amount of wine yearly.

See some pictures from the location.

What can be learned from Old Town? What can you see and not see? Join guest collaborators for a walk organized by Maryam Hosseinzadeh in Old Town Pasadena.

Social history, urban redevelopment, shared spaces, personal memory, and the places where they meet. This walk welcomes the participation of anyone interested in sharing their own experiences, too.

Approx. 3-3 1/2 hours.

This will be the culminating event of Maryam’s WCCW residency at the Armory Center for the Arts, which she will spend organizing and producing this public walking tour, as well as a booklet and map, as part of an ongoing, long-term project on community-based and word-of-mouth histories of Pasadena and Altadena.

Maryam Hosseinzadeh is a native Angeleno interested in the layered sites, memories, places and histories encountered individually and created collectively by all people, everyday. Originally from Altadena, she has lived in Northeast Los Angeles most recently for the past nine years. Some of her past projects include walks for the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the MAK Center, and Machine Project’s Guide to Modern Architecture in LA.
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This project is funded as a part of the NEA Our Town Public Art Project “My Pasadena,” a City of Pasadena public art project with Side Street Projects as a partner.

Read more here

Saturday, November 21, 2015
11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Meet on the lawn at the corner of W. Colorado Blvd. and S. Orange Grove Ave.

Wines of Los Angeles with Wine Tasting!

Author of the new book, Los Angeles Wine , Stuart Byles, will discuss the wine history of Los Angeles and by extension, southern California. The San Gabriel valley and Altadena/Pasadena play a significant role in that history. This is a fascinating study of a little known facet of our local history, especially of its beginnings in the late 18th century with the Hispanic settlers and rancheros. It is more than likely that the first non-mission vineyard in all of California was planted by Jose Maria Verdugo on his Rancho San Rafael (now Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena,etc.) Mr. Byles will be bringing copies of his books for signing and purchase.

This exciting event will include tastings of six Spanish wines. It was the Spanish that brought European wine making grapes to the New World. And it was from those Spanish settlers that the winemaking traditions of California (Baja and Alta) came from.

The Altadena Ale & Wine House, which will be providing the wines, is located in the diverse, eclectic community of Altadena. They take pride in the careful maintenance of their products so that they are served fresh and in peak condition. They are a family-owned and operated business. If you enjoy intellectual conversation and the sense of community as well as camaraderie that defines the best traditions of a neighborhood watering hole, then their pub is the place for you.

Tasting List:

Deshora, Cava, Organic

Valencia, Spain

Intense aromas of pear and apples with notes of lime and white flowers. Fresh with acidity, leaving a floral long taste

Vina Mayor, Verdejo, 2012

Ribera Del Duero, Spain

Fresh and elegant, with lots of fruit flavours and a lingering taste of grapefruit on the end of the palate.

Milflores, Rose, 2013

Rioja, Spain

Fun, fruity and soft style. A great example of a young Tempranillo rose wine, soft & fruity

El Furioso, Tempranillo, 2013

Castilla y Leon, Spain

Fresh and forward, young, juicy raspberry fruit, a touch of spice with well balanced acidity

Bles, Crianza, Organic, 2012

Valencia, Spain

Dry, medium bodied and fruity, featuring refreshing acidity. It showcases smooth tannins and a broad mouthfeel that leads into a medium finish

Vina Mayor, Toro, 2012

Ribera Del Deuro, Spain

Well balanced but powerful fruit flavours, with elegant fine tannins. Complex, with a long finish

Glorioso, Gran Reserva, 2005

Rioja, Spain

Round and complex with long, mature tannins of a quality consistent with the old vine Rioja Alavesa fruit used in its production

Latino Americans: 500 Years of History is a part of an ongoing series of Latino-American library programming. Latino Americans: 500 Years of History has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.

There is no charge for this event but you must be at least 21 to attend. There is a limit of 80 seats for this event.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS PROGRAM by emailing salya@altadenalibrary.org 

Program Type:

Adults

Program Date:

Friday, November 20, 2015 – 6:00pm

PDF Attachment:

Press Release_Nov 2015_Los Angeles Wine.pdf