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LA Foodways Title Card
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"LA Foodways" looks at the storied agricultural history of Los Angeles to understand present food waste challenges and opportunities to bring fresh foods to urban communities.
LA Foodways Title Card
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"LA Foodways" looks at the storied agricultural history of Los Angeles to understand present food waste challenges and opportunities to bring fresh foods to urban communities.
Ch 1: From Farm to Freeway
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Los Angeles is now home to the largest population of people dealing with food scarcity.
Ch 2: King Citrus and the Selling of the California Dream
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The citrus industry started in Los Angeles in the 1870s, soon becoming one of the largest.
Ch 4: The Central Wholesale Produce Market
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The Central Wholesale Produce Market was founded in 1898 and still thrives today.
Ch 5: Watts Action
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The Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) tells stories of early Watts residents.
Ch 6: Los Angeles, Garden Paradise
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Various efforts at across Los Angeles are being attempted to solve the food crisis.
Ch 3: The Paving of Paradise
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Los Angeles was once the largest farming community in the U.S.
#GoodFoodLACounty Summer Lunch Program | Linus Shentu
Food Policy Councils help connect the dots between the fields and our forks. They are convening diverse people across the food chain to discuss good food practices and policies that result in healthier populations.
Food--don't waste it | Courtesy of the Library of Congress
World War I changed America. It also left behind lessons that we should still heed today — especially when it comes to our relationship with food.
Patricia Baltazar harvests in a field that would eventually be part of the 105/Century Freeway. 1986. | Courtesy of Angel City Press
Farming was at the center of life in Los Angeles from the time of its founding in 1781, an aspect of local history important well into the mid-twentieth century, when Los Angeles County was the top agricultural county in the nation.
Dorothea Lange photographerd a family working on their El Monte small farm homestead as part of the Subsistence Homestead Program | Courtesy of Angel City Press
For more than four decades, Los Angeles County was America's top agricultural producer. What happened? Author Rachel Surls gives readers a preview of her book chronicling L.A.'s agricultural history and prospects.
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