Food Insecurity has Increased in LA... Microfarms Can Help

#43: Food insecurity is increasing in L.A. – almost 300,000 more households report lacking consistent access to food this year than in 2021. Blame it on lingering pandemic effects and now inflation. Enter Jamiah Hargins. He's the founder of Crop Swap LA, which works with unused spaces in Los Angeles to create microfarms, typically in someone's front yard, to grow food to serve people in the surrounding neighborhood. How To LA host Brian De Los Santos stops by one microfarm in View Park to check out how this local food distribution system works.

 

Guests: LAist's Climate Emergency reporter Erin Stone; Jamiah Hargins, founder of Crop Swap LA