El Sereno GreenGrocer

11/21/2024

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TODAY’S SPECIAL … few of our favorite things!

🌶️Salsas Acapulco 3 for $20!
Mix and match your fave ceviche, salsa and/or cactus chips for $20!

😋Also have some excellent samples including goatless vegan black truffle cheese on bread, with pea shoot topping, cactus chips and salsas…

🍂And finally … we’ve got a few hachiya persimmons left. These are great for baking or scooping right outta their skin when ripe 😋😋😋

11/20/2024

Today, tomorrow and Friday! These are your last 3 days to visit GreenGrocer before we close for Autumnal Break 🍂🍁🍂

CLOSED this Saturday 11/23 - Tuesday 12/3
RE-OPENS Wednesday 12/4

Come for your faves, for early Christmas shopping, and for the vibes 💝

11/13/2024

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Plantita & Compost Pop-Up with brilliant folks!
• Daisy of Backyard Nursery Project
• David of TAWA Compost Food Rescue

Sunday November 17 9am-1pm/sell out
El Sereno GreenGrocer

🌱10:30am Winter Plantita Care 101 Talk by Daisy of Backyard Nursery Project

🪱11:00am Using Compost 101 Talk by David of TAWA

❄️The winter garden is a special magic, a favorite here at GreenGrocer.

Daisy and David will be here with delightful winter veggie plants as well as various forms of soil amendments to best support your bebe plantitas throughout winter.

If you’d like to get an overview of guidance and support, arrive by 10:30am. Daisy will be sharing wisdom on caring for your winter garden, and David on the uses of compost.

On Offer:

Backyard Nursery Project
Collard Greens, Beets, Cilantro, Broccoli, Chinese Broccoli, Parsley, Nasturtium, Kale
Coming Soon: Cauliflower, Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts & Lettuce

TAWA
Compost, Coco Coir & Perlite, Soil Sauce

11/09/2024

🍂november🐿️

we’re practicing awareness as the seasons change.
slowing down, breathing, nourishing. re-committing to keep resisting oppressive forces whilst drawing on the love of ancestors to co-build more just worlds. we’re practicing rest and nourishment, welcoming the fruit of the season to keep us hydrated as the dry air comes in - guava, pears, persimmons; welcoming soup season to simmer our greens and root veggies in.

come, gather nourishment beloved comelones. our carefully curated kitchen pantry basics and cozy vibes await you. everyday there’s something fresh brewed, baked, made, or harvested that’s dropped at the Shop. some days there’s delicious and life-affirming pop-ups.

🍂Welcome to (the rest of) November at GreenGrocer.

9am-12pm tomorrow sat 11/9
9am-11am sun 11/10

wednesdaysla fresh bread & pastries
salsas, ceviches & cactus chips
farm fruit & veg

thursdays
cheese, crackers & pastries
vegan, gf, nut & soy free pastries
fruit, veg & eggs s pasadena farmers market drop

fridays
cookies
canto-british hand pies & farmers market veggie quiche

saturdaysla fresh bread & pastries

sundays
cinnamon rolls (vegan)
fruit, veg & fungi drop alhambra farmers market

events
sunday 11/17 9am to 1pm-ish
winter plantita pop-up
compost pop-up

3pm-7pm/sell outananda pop-up
& wine fundraiser

🍂Autumnal Seasonal Break 🐿️
Closed Sat Nov 23
Reopening Wed Dec 4

Thank you as always for the collective care and convicencia. We appreciate you.

10/14/2024

.ananda sold out!

🍕yall comelones showed up!!!

and we heard … next time more pizza!

natural wine still flowin 🍷

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10/09/2024

🍂October has already been so powerful here at GreenGrocer, thanks to y’all. We are grateful for the community & convivencia amongst this world on fire 🥹

Here’s what’s up at GreenGrocer for the rest of this autumnal month:

the mama & daughter duo we’re lucky to have in residency will be here weekends 9am-2pm. Come thru for their delicious fall menu, signature drinks and classics all made with love!
*won’t be present oct 19 & 20, see below in More!

will continue drops as possible - the hens are slowed down for a break 🐓🛌

📚Nourished Book Club meets regularly but isn’t published on this calendar. If you’re interested in joining, DM us!

DAILY DROP SCHEDULE
Wednesdays .la &

Thursdays fruit & veg drop from farm partners at South Pasadena Farmers Market

Fridays cookies & savory handpies & veggie quiche!

Saturdays .la

Sundays & fruit, veg & fungi drop from farm partners at Alhambra Farmers Market

MORE!
Pop-ups and other wonderful happenings….

🍕 .ananda sunday oct 13th 3-7pm • sourdough pizza pop up with wine by super natural wine project … more details soon! 🍷

☕️ coffee pop up sat 10/19 & sun 10/20 • our inaugural resident mobile coffee shop returns for their monthly weekend hang! come thru for their delicious fall menu and signature drinks honoring the street names of El Sereno

🍂 sunday oct 20th drop-in 2-5pm • the artist in residence we get to partner with will be facilitating a crafty activity honoring the season. for kids of all ages

🌱 tbd for a weekend in late oct • plantita pop-up with seasonal plant bebes seeded and tended with care by Daisy 🌸

10/04/2024

Ángel is a healing artist and co-curator of Sunday’s Bake and Make Sale. She had the vision to make a collective recipe book featuring recipes from any attendee who wants to contribute.

In preparation for Sunday, Ángel has hand bound the book. Now, it awaits the life-nourishing recipes.

So, we invite you to share a beloved recipe! We’d love to hear a bit about why you feel inspired to share it in this context, and/or anything else that you feel significant to share.

There’s two ways to share:

1) via the Padlet link in bio
2) bring the recipe to write directly in the book, or have Ángel add, at Sunday’s event

We have a few ideas of how this book will develop: we will likely digitize it and sell as part of this fundraiser, and several ideas we’ll keep secret for now regarding the actual, tangible collective recipe book. Stay tuned!

SLIDE 1: Intro to Ángel, cultural traditions and lineages of international solidarity that tend to life

SLIDE 2: Invitation to share recipe

SLIDE 3: Padlet instructions!

10/03/2024

🫒Bake & Make Sale
📆Sunday October 6th
⏰9am to 12pm or Sell Out
📍El Sereno GreenGrocer
💲Proceeds donated to
📣PSA: Sunday is going to be hot. There’s a limited amount of gluten free and/or vegan food. Takeaway: come early to beat the heat, get your dietary needs met, and to sell us out!

The illustrated kites adorning the event flier are there on purpose.

For many years, the kite has symbolized defiance, survival, hope and freedom in Gaza and beyond. Also for many years, especially in this last 365 days of genocide, people from many places throughout Earth have crafted kites from cloth or paper, whatever they may have, to fly into the sky messages of witness and solidarity.

In this last year, the increasing visibility of many years of violence unto Palestinian peoples and lands has deepened global conversations and actions around the interconnections of these colonial struggles – from Palestine, Afghanistan, Sudan, DRC, the U.S. Southeast, Tongva Land / Los Angeles and many, many more places.

These are cultural practices: making kites, sharing experiences, wisdom and story so that connections can be made toward building liberated worlds. These are everyday practices that make life possible and meaningful.

This Bake and Make Sale draws on these powers of everyday cultural practices such as making food, baking bread, making connections through conversation, thought & action, nourishing one another, crafting visionary and pragmatic things.

We invite you to gather with us to witness, nourish and connect during this one year mark of deepened genocide. We invite you to gather to raise funds for Healing Our Homeland, a Palestinian women-led grassroots movement distributing aid to people in Gaza and throughout the region.

We are deeply grateful to the makers and bakers contributing. We’re still in the process of confirming a few, so this list isn’t complete!

09/16/2024

🍉 Save the Date: Bake & Make Sale for Gaza 🍉

Join , .haddad_ , and on Sunday, October 6 from 9am-12pm for a Bake & Make Sale at El Sereno GreenGrocer. Proceeds will be donated to .our.homeland , a Palestinian women-led grassroots movement distributing aid to families in Gaza. The event will feature homemade seasonal & savory treats and crafted items from bakers and makers across our beautiful community who stand in solidarity with Palestinian liberation. Because, as Maya Angelou reminds us, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

To become a vendor, send .haddad_ a DM. And either way, mark your calendars for a delicious and nourishing event.

06/20/2024

06/14/2024

🥳 Birthday things ✨

Thank you for a year of comida, conivencia, comunidad y comelones. Here’s a calendar overview for the rest of June, celebrating vendor-partners new and OG, praising y’all, staff, and ourselves. We gather, we give thanks.

We’ll share more details about specific happenings listed here as the dates unfold…and we may or may not have a few surprises on our sleeves 🪄🦄🧚🏽‍♂️

🌒Saturday 6/15 & Sunday 6/16
mobile coffee shop pop up 9am - 12p

Sunday 6/16
Father’s Day pop up 11:30am-5pm

field trip 11:30am-2pm — fully booked

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🌕Saturday 6/22 & Sunday 6/23
mobile coffee shop pop up 9am-2pm

🍨Saturday 6/22
Mini Scoops Giveaway for first 100 folks! 11am - gone!

Sunday 6/23bake pop up 9am - sell out!
🎂fiesta with Don Victor 🍯 and Bebe A - TBD

🌗Thursday 6/27
Book Club welcome, orientation & launch!
5pm-7pm

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🌘Saturday 6/29 & Sunday 6/30
mobile coffee shop pop up 9am-2pm

Saturday 6/29
samples & vending specialty items 10am - 2pm

☀️Summer Seasonal Break🛌
Closed Monday July 1 - Tuesday July 9
Re-opening Wednesday July 10

Pumpkin 🎨

05/25/2024

repost •

TOMORROW Saturday 5/25 12-5pm! | Gather for a FREE all-ages day of healing arts and movement to reconnect with our mind, body, spirit, and each other–featuring a diverse mix of over 30 local nonprofit organizations, wellness providers and healing artists at El Sereno Community Garden!⁠ ⁠
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Find your center in the lushness of the garden and visit a variety of FREE community health resources, interactive workshops, and hands-on activities that celebrate ancestral wisdom and offer accessible mental health tools that meet you where you are.⁠
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We gather on Saturday, May 25th from 12-5pm to release stress, unleash the restorative power of our creativity, and break free from the myth that we have to do it alone. Explore and cultivate practices for our mental health and wellness that move us from burning out in isolation to burning brightly together!⁠
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⁠Plus! An exciting major announcement about the direction of our org—get the first scoop at our event! 🤩⁠
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Our biggest event yet features 15 unique workshops with over 20 local healers, artists, and community organizations, and is a fully-masked outdoor event.⁣

05/24/2024

Backyard Nursery Project Plantita Pop-Up @ Greengrocer

This Sunday 5/26 9am-1pm

Organic, open pollinated & heirloom varieties for your summer garden will be available at this sidewalk seedling sale.

These seeds have been cultivated with care by Daisy of Backyard Nursery Project. Plantitas available include:

Native Blue Corn
Golden Zucchini
Black Beauty Zucchini
White Scallop Squash
Marketmore 76 Cucumber
Chile Serrano
Jalapeño
Basil
Cilantro

Plantitas Coming Soon…
Tomatillos
Melons
Tomatoes
Bell Peppers

04/25/2024

🌸 Weekends at the Shop 🌸 Sat 4/27 & Sun 4/28 🌸

of the wonderful cafecito, tea & vibes, will be popping up Sat & Sun 9am-12pm! This is the last weekend of their April residency at the Shop, and we’re so happy to share the their Halima beans will be available here moving forward. The beans come from Nicaragua, Honduras and Ethiopia with notes of Milk Chocolate, Raspberry Jam & Tropical Fruits. It’s smooth and delish!
la will be joining our pop up scene Sunday 9am-12pm with mouth watering breakfast bites. We’ve gotten to partner with Agua, the baddie q***r Salvi Chef Street Vendor Food Magician proprietor, several times and are so grateful to welcome them back!

For fresh made and harvested drops this weekend we are grateful to feature our beloved partners:
la on the fresh baked sourdough bread for the soul Sat morning

on the fresh baked pastries ranging from savory to sweet Sat morning

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Sunday morning cinnis, LA’s best and vegan Cinni

Sunday afternoon a fresh fruit, veg & fungi drop from our partner farmers at Bih Shan and more!

In this moment of collective care, resistance and survival, we invite you to come nourish together. To let the rose in your coffee be balm for the heart, one of roses medicinal offerings. We invite you to eat food rooted in Salvi brilliance and expressive of cultural connections. To take time to be with yourself or others in spirit of nourishing a more liveable world.

Beloved Comelones, thank you for the Convivencia

04/16/2024

Weekends at the Shop

Alexis Pauline Gumbs , in the vivacious legacy of Audre Lorde, teaches that survival is a promise made in the context of what we are navigating — life-affirming delight, disaster, relationshipping with Earth and every living being human and beyond; it is life in honor of our ancestors, who survive through our breathing, presence and remembering. It is life finding ways despite genocidal forces working against existence.

In this context, we invite you to gather at the Shop this weekend to nourish collective survival. will be here Saturday & Sunday 9am-12pm. You are welcome to gather with us, to drink cafecito and tea — and if you choose it, they adorn it with the heart-balm that is rose.

There will be postcards for Palestine, texting letters for Sudan, and resources from free posters to links examining how the current genocides unfolding in front our eyes are linked, and how those forces are being navigated and dismantled from here to Guatemala; Haiti to Afghanistan, and every place humans and beyond live and die.

While there will be specific resources and actions, this will be a capacious space. There will be blank postcards open for you to create art on, and send to whoever you may want to share them with. We invite you to bring a book to read or sketch in, a journal to write in.

Starting at noon this Saturday, there will be an Earth Day Festival down the street at , the 3rd annual festival hosted by . There will be other events throughout the weekend to honor earth and 4/20, and we invite you to start your day with some cafecito and convivencia at the Shop. Let us nourish ourselves as we share in resources to punch up and share in practices of collective survival.

*Check out The Shape of My Impact by Alexis Pauline Gumbs for more on survival as a promise, Audre Lorde and Black Feminist brilliance. Published in The Feminist Wire 2012, open access and googleable.

*Right of return woman with key based on photograph by Abed Rahim Khatib

*Thank you Alexis for permission to use your stunning photo

03/15/2024

Have you ever felt the hug, connection & presence that a cup of tea can offer? Has a cup of tea rejuvenated you, helping you face a day of work or a challenge? Have you experienced deep conversation or giggles over a cup o’ tea?

If so, then this weekend at the shop is for you
If not, then this weekend at the shop is *also* for you

We’re so very pleased to welcome Masalawali for a pop up this Saturday & Sunday, 9AM-12PM. Masalawali is a Q***r, Desi-owned & operated pop-up chai shop & collective liberation space dedicated to decolonizing South Asian traditions thru offering up damn good cups of chai…& thru offering up space for cultivating solidarity.

On the menu:

☕ , classic masala chai made with loose black tea steeped with fresh & ground ginger, cloves, fennel, cardamom, black pepper & WAY less cinnamon than corporate chai tea lattes

🥥The LA Special, vegan/dairy free, GF, tree-nut free & keto-friendly masala chai blended with coconut milk

😋Naasto (Snacks in Gujarati), mix of sweet & savory snacks to dip, devour & bring out the best flavors in your chai (GF & Vegan options)

I’m drawn to the ways Bijal, the Founder, is contextualizing masala chai. For instance, LA is home to the 5th largest concentration of South Asians & South Asian Americans in the US, yet there are no genuine chai shops. ¿Por qué?

Another example: in the US, many without regard for chai’s cultural roots & present practices have “discovered” chai, then appropriated it as either a bland, stale tea mix or syurpy too-sweet situation, robbing South Asian cultural signifiers to market & sell “chai tea lattes,” drinks ripped from their vital geographies, peoples, history, culture…& FLAVOR!

Context can support understanding, relationship & co-creation of caring power within & across groups harmed by oppressions. In this context, making & pouring tasty cups of chai means Bijal is also dedicated to cultivating spaces of nourishment & solidarity for South Asian & other communities harmed by colonial forces.

Come, have a cup of tea.
Welcome to Masalawali Weekend at the Greengrocer.