El Sereno GreenGrocer

06/28/2025

🌸 This Weekend at Greengrocer June 28 & 29

06/21/2025

11am on Saturday and Sunday of this summer solstice weekend, we’ll be sharing slices of cake to praise TWO years of El Sereno Greengrocer!

If in your flow, please join us! Special guests on one or both days include Bebe A and Don Victor the Honey Man of El Sereno, both of whom the Shop has the honor and privilege of sharing birthdays.

We have survived two years of ups and downs amongst a magical force field of care, thanks to y’all comelones, our badass team, seeds and land, community and ancestral roots, vision and love.

May we continue to rise up after rest, after falls and wins, and through practices of world building.

Decolonize from Turtle Island to Congo, Palestine to Haiti, chinga la migra, and let’s stay nourished while we do so.

06/21/2025

😎Summer Solstice Weekend at the Shop

It’s our birthday, we’re 2 years old! Come help us celebrate and nourish. We have our usual line up of goodies including fresh produce, eggs and bread, plus the birthday celebrations below:

9am-1pm Sat & Sun

11am birthday cake celebration Sat & Sun. Free slices of this delicious art while they last!

📣 CLOSING EARLY SAT @ 3PM

Sunday @ 12pm Farm Fresh Fruit, Veg & Fungi - local and organically grown by our BIPOC farmer partners. 50% off all produce when paying with your EBT card!

06/16/2025

Flowers for Dad - Help Support an El Sereno Flower Vendor on this Fathers Day

Through a wellness check, we learned that the raids have impacted an El Sereno Flower Vendor & Beloved Dad that we have relationship with. Amongst the myriad of ways the impact has hit, lost income due to the inability to vend in this political climate has been a big one.

Perhaps you purchased Mother’s Day flowers from this street vendor, perhaps you’re looking for a way to support our undocumented neighbors and kin, or perhaps you want to send some love to this Dad who crossed borders from Mesoamerica to here, in the spirit of life and love for his family.

If so, please donate whatever you can via Zelle, VenMo or CashApp. I’ll transfer all funds directly to him.

The final two slides are reminders of the context in which many move across borders: first, the colonial U.S. role in the coup, civil war and genocide of Indigenous peoples in what is today known as Guatemala. Second, a glimpse at emerging research from a Garifuna scholar Dr. Daisy Guzman Nunez on the rarely acknowledged misogynoir and anti-Blackness that made the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna people particularly vulnerable to the war and colonial processes that are still very much alive.

All this to say, from Palestine to Haiti, Guatemala to these El Sereno streets, it’s all connected. And we do what we can toward liberation and to ease the survival where we can.

Any donation counts, thank you.

Swipe above for QR codes, donation info also below:

Zelle: [email protected]
Venmo: la_pati
Cashapp: $lapaty023

06/14/2025

This Weekend at the Shop

We are open Sat and Sun 9am - 7pm

Sat 6/14 11:30-2 launches issue 03 alongside roasting up a Good Girl Dinette classic: blistered corn with scallion oil. IYKYK 😋

Sun 6/15 9am-12pm will be popping up with delicious lattes

The beloved vendors wrote messages, check out slides 1 and 2 for them

Resources for these times, from red cards to the posters in slides 4 and 5 will be available for free, for resistance and for liberation. Art in poster slide 4 by ; art in poster slide 5 by river

If after assessing your vulnerabilities to state violence, as well as your risk and safety needs, it feels appropriate to show up, please join us to help keep friendly and bold eyes and bodies on our neighborhood streets

06/10/2025

From Palestine to Yaanga/LA: Land, Food & Power

⏰Wed June 11th 6-8pm
📍El Sereno Community Garden
📍5466 Huntington Dr S Los Angeles CA 90032

You’re invited to gather in de-colonial love and rage, healing and strategy. We’ll have a panel conversation with:

🌱A friend at a Palestinian Agricultural NGO
🌱A friend who is a Tongva Biologist
🌱Neelam Sharma - A friend, Engaged Earthling, Longtime Former ED of CSU Inc., Co-Founder of East Herts Palestine Support Group

🎶 .paloma - Opening Song / Flor y Canto
🫚 & - Food & Drink (limited)

📝 Additional Care Logistics

Interpretation for speakers of Spanish & English available

Limited chairs will be on site, please bring blankets to sit on and/or your portable chair(s)

Wheelchair accessible, and it is an active garden with uneven ground

ADA accessible porta potty on site

We envision this to be a gathering of restoration, and will have community safety squad support. And, occupation forces such as ICE are only increasing their aggression. Please assess your risk and safety needs as you decide if this feels right to show up to.

Free Gaza, F**k Ice

06/08/2025

today we’re a place to gather, nourish, restore
and remember that the whole earth is cheerin us on 🌱

see our stories more resources on other gatherings and resources for those putting their bodies on the line in the face of colonial forces

06/03/2025

Community Care Wednesdays are back, just in time to celebrate the revolutionary roots of Pride 🤩🏳️‍🌈🥰

The location has moved to our nearby sister site, This place is incredibly special to many of us at El Sereno GreenGrocer, and we are grateful to be able to unfurl this program here. The Garden allows for a safer, enclosed space that folks who come to receive can rest or play in during the distribution

🗓️ Wednesdays
⏰ 9am - 11am
📍El Sereno Community Garden - front gate at corner of Huntington & Lowell
📍5466 Huntington Dr S LA 90032
🚗 Parking on Huntington Dr and residential side streets, please be mindful of our neighbors
🚌 Local Metro Bus lines #179 & #78

🍊Free fruit, veg, eggs, milk & more
🛍️ Bring at least 3 of your own bags to carry your goods in

Building Community, Pooling & Sharing Resources: we are inviting you to be in this cooperative practice of sharing resources together. We are sharing what we can with neighbors who feel supported by these free groceries; those who come to receive are sharing their presence and care in so many ways.

We are able to share a humble contribution to a households needs, and do so wholeheartedly. Please remember supplies are limited and we will continue asking folks to receive while being mindful of sharing with the other 150 households who show up

What to Expect: Welcoming volunteers and staff greeting you at the big garden gate on the corner of Huntington and Lowell Ave! The garden has shaded areas, is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible porta-pottty on site. Wear comfortable shoes, and bringing a hat and water bottle is highly recommended!

9am doors open: We’ll hand out numbered tickets up to 150. Folks will come inside the Garden to sit, walk, rest while waiting. No lining up outside Garden or inside, yay!

9:30am food distribution starts: We’ll call groups of numbers, like 1 through 20, to come select and gather your nourishment

Slides above are flyers with essential info in the following languages:
English
Spanish
Arabic
Chinese (Traditional)
Korean
Japanese

🫂In radical cooperation with

Thank y’all for the convicencia 💕

06/03/2025

05/28/2025

.ananda returns!
This Sunday June 1st
3pm - 7pm or sell out!

Come welcome summer time with fresh sidewalk made & baked pizza, seasonal tasty flavors, and community 🍕

Plan to come on the earlier side cuz this small batch deliciousness sells out!

05/24/2025

🌸 This weekend at GreenGrocer

🗓️ Saturday May 24th & Sunday May 25th

⏳ Open 9am - 7pm

🍓We’re ready to welcome y’all with fresh brewed, baked, harvested & made nourishment. See ya this weekend!

05/24/2025

🐛This weekend at the Shop

🌸Saturday May 24th & Sunday May 25th

⏳Open 9-7

🍓We’re ready to welcome y’all with LA’s best brewed, baked, made & harvested goodies