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LA Times - This Must Be Compton

AUGUST 9, 2024

USC Graduate Student Project -“Cultivating Community Wellness”

AUGUST, 2024

Hip Hop Caucus YouTube Channel - “Greening the Block”

JUNE 29, 2024

LA Food Equity Fund Grantee Celebration Recap

JUNE 7, 2024

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

  • June 5, 2024

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  • April 29, 2024

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  • November, 2023

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  • September 6, 2023

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  • July 5, 2023

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  • March 2, 2023

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  • February 14, 2023

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  • February, 2023

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  • January 21, 2023

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  • October 15, 2022

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  • March 24, 2022

    PBS SoCal wrote a feature on ALMA's Peas in a Pod program. Henry Barjas writes about how ALMA teaches kids about Urban Farming.

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  • March 4, 2022

    PBS SoCal included ALMA on their list of places for families to visit in Compton. 

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  • January 18, 2022

    ALMA Backyard Farms is an urban farm in Compton, CA, founded by two LMU alumni, Erika L. Cuellar and Richard D. Garcia, that focuses on restorative justice and environmental stewardship. Have you ever wondered what a chocolate lightning tomato tasted like?

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  • December, 2021

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  • September 30, 2021

    Jennifer Marquez discusses ALMA's opening in San Pedro with Co-founder, Richard D. Garcia.

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  • October 1, 2022

    Spectrum News shows viewers around ALMA's Compton farm site and discusses the mission with the ALMA team.

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  • June 3, 2021

    Spectrum News shows viewers around ALMA's Compton farm site and discusses the mission with the ALMA team.

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  • December 21, 2020

    The Food and Faith Podcast brings together voices of hope who are working for a world of organic connections. On this episode, ALMA's Co-founders, Erika L. Cuellar and Richard D. Garcia partake in a conversation from the soil and around the table. 

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  • December 18, 2020

    KCRW provides listeners with local news, public health information, music for your spirit, and cultural connection. ALMA's Co-founder, Richard D. Garcia, discusses farming with youth and the formerly incarcerated to feed the community.

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  • December 11, 2020

    ABC News covers the history of agriculture in Los Angeles and features our urban farm in Compton.

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  • December 3, 2020

    Hosted by Amplify RJ founder David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris,  Restorative Justice Practitioners, Circle Keepers, and others discuss how they bring Restorative Justice philosophy, practices, and values into their personal and professional lives.

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  • November 11, 2020

    America has a wellness problem. Wellness requires rest, clean water, movement, community, care, and nutrition—things that have become privileges, when they really should be rights. In this episode, Alma's social enterprise associate, Luis Mota, discusses how he is dedicated to bringing wellness to his community.

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  • October 21, 2020

    How food sovereignty and resilient food systems put the future in our own hands.

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  • August 2, 2020

    Selena teams up with the godfather of the modern food truck movement, Roy Choi, to make some dangerously delicious Korean BBQ breakfast tacos. At the end of the episode, ALMA gets recognized for its work! Episode 4 is available on HBO Max. Free trial available. 

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  • August 14, 2020

    Mercy For Animals is dedicated to eradicating our cruel food system and replacing it with one that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. Check out this feature they included of ALMA.

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  • July 1, 2020

    In this episode, we talk to Richard Garcia, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Alma Backyard Farms, about his calling to work with communities and formerly incarcerated people to set up urban gardens. 

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  • May 10, 2020

    Los propietarios de ALMA prepararon cerca de 200 bolsas repletas de alimentos frescos que fueron entregadas a las familias más necesitadas del área

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  • May 10, 2020

    A unique Mother's Day giveaway lifted spirits on Sunday in Rancho Dominguez, where a ALMA provided those special someones with much-needed appreciation.

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  • May 8, 2020

    Alma Backyard Farms les da una segunda oportunidad a través del trabajo en la tierra

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  • May 7, 2020

    Richard D. Garcia, Co-founder and Executive Director of ALMA speaks with Madeleine Brand of KCRW's Press Play about the role local farms are playing during the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • November 7, 2020

    To capture the essence of Natural American Goodness, Mountain Valley Spring Water visited with ALMA and one of our chef partners, Steve Samson of Rossoblu.

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  • September 3, 2019

    VoyageLA is a group of magazines that publishes interviews with local community members, businesses, organizations, and artists.

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  • June 12, 2019

    KCET, a producer of award-winning and diverse original content for public media, and Tastemade, a global media company creating premium video programming in the food, travel and home verticals, premiered a new multi-media series BROKENBREAD, hosted by restaurant entrepreneur, social activist and acclaimed chef Roy Choi. In episode 5, WASTE: Recovery & Possibility, Roy Choi visits ALMA.

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  • December 1, 2017

    We are thrilled to have a cameo on the second season of Life & Thyme's The Migrant Kitchen.  The episode features Chef Diep of Good Dinette, a chef who sources seasonal veggies from our urban farms.

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  • April 26, 2017

    Q & A: Can urban farming combat food waste?  Chatting with the founders of Alma Backyard Farms

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  • April 17, 2017

    “What happens here…it’s church.”

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  • June 8, 2015

    For this week's arts and culture column, I interviewed Erika Cuellar and Richard Garcia, the amazing duo who head up the East L.A. non-profit Alma Backyard Farms.

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  • June 5, 2015

    “Re-claim lives. Re-purpose land. Re-imagine community.” That’s the motto of Alma Backyard Farms, an East L.A. non-profit that teaches recently released prisoners to grow, harvest and market local produce.

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