US (CA): Urban farmer Rishi Kumar to address Grow Local OC Conference

The organizers of the Grow Local OC Conference: The Future of Urban Food Systems slated for Nov. 10 – 11 at Cal State University, Fullerton announce that urban farmer and educator Rishi Kumar will be participating as a speaker. Rishi is the co-founder and director of The Growing Club, a non-profit organization based in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, CA working to create systemic cultural change through the avenues of food, farming, and community empowerment.

What began in 2009 with Rishi and his mother taking over increasingly large sections of their home backyard to grow more fresh food has developed into an educational non-profit that facilitates a network of urban farming demonstration sites in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley. These sites include a ½ acre demonstration farm in Pomona, a new public demonstration garden in Claremont called The Growing Commons, and the original Growing Home, which has evolved into a heavily integrated demonstration of sustainable living techniques that can be implemented by the average homeowner or tenant.

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