RIPE Altadena

01/10/2025

This is what a good portion of Altadena looks like now. If he would like to support the founder of RIPE Altadena, you can do so here: https://www.givesendgo.com/GailMurphy

07/18/2024

Offer: Patty Pan squash, a little overgrown. Largest is 7”; then around 6” and 5” Giving the largest 4 in the photo , smaller ones to show size usually eaten. On line recipes say you can bake and eat the insides. Must be able to pick up, I’m giving one to two squash per person. Tell me what you would do with it and I will pick tonight or tomorrow depending on response.

01/14/2019

The march toward extinction appears to be nearing an end for monarch butterflies in California, whose numbers have declined precipitously over the last two decades.

01/27/2018

This Sunday January 28th, at 4:30 meet other RIPE members at Farnsworth Park in Altadena.

07/17/2017

Interesting concept! What do you think? Can it work here?

05/27/2017

2017 MEMORIAL WEEKEND
SHARE FAIRE
IS ON!

Come on by with your extra veggies, fruit and seeds or other
garden-related items. Catch up with some old friends
and make some new garden pals.

Look around your house.
Maybe there’s an extra gardening magazine.
Or some seeds, a succulent cutting,
homemade spice rubs…be creative!

Sunday, May 28, 2017
5:30 – 6:30 pm

Farnsworth Park - Covered patio area
568 E. Mount Curve Avenue, Altadena, CA 91001

RIPE Altadena
(Residential In-season Produce Exchange Altadena)
is a local group of gardeners who meet regularly
to share extra vegetables, fruits
and garden-related items.

ripealtadena.com

05/24/2017

Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, is recognized as the world's most widely used w**d killer. What is not so well known is that farmers also use glyphosate on crops such as wheat, oats, edible beans and other crops right before harvest, raising concerns that the herbici...

05/13/2017

The Edinburgh Remakery is a social enterprise that teaches repair. The shop sells refurbished computers and furniture, and hosts workshops where people can come along and learn how to repair their …

04/05/2017

How not to grow anything... :( Including your brain.

Foreign researchers are extremely excited for a biology project from five 9th grade girls. Researchers from England, Holland and Sweden have shown great interest in the five girls’ biology ex…

04/01/2017

Weeds are a gardener's worst nightmare, so get rid of them with these natural solutions.

04/01/2017

After six years of legal wrangling, urban homestead and urban homesteading belong to us all. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has cancelled the trademarks thanks to the hard work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the law firm of Winston & Strawn.