How Does Your Garden Grow?

Check out these Home Composting and Urban Gardening Workshop Videos. Because LA Sanitation temporarily suspended their monthly workshops, they wanted to offer some videos online to keep everyone’s composting and gardening skills fresh. So they enlisted their friends and partners, Horticulturist Steve List and Pacoima Beautiful, to work on some educational video series with us.

The first is a 3-part series focused on Victory Gardens and vegetables. Did you know you can plant your tomatoes deeper in the soil than other plants???

Part 1: history and significance of victory gardens
https://youtu.be/ROEBAFkxehI

Part 2: varieties of garden vegetables
https://youtu.be/A5btn-PhAaQ

Part 3: vegetable planting tips
https://youtu.be/SYfAekgODwk

As we film more, we’ll post them here:
lacitysan.org/compostworkshops

Mondays with Michelle Obama

Beginning Monday, April 20, “Mondays with Michelle Obama” will kick off a four-week series of videos that will feature Mrs. Obama reading aloud from beloved children’s books, one book every Monday through May 11.

Penguin Young Readers, Random House Children’s Books, and PBS KIDS today announced a special collaboration with former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, in support of the recently announced “Read Together, Be Together” Penguin Random House literacy initiative and PBS KIDS’ “Read-Along” effort on Facebook and YouTube.

The former First Lady shares this, “As a little kid, I loved to read aloud. And when I became a parent, I found such joy in sharing the magic of storytelling with my own children—and then later, as First Lady, with kids everywhere. At this time when so many families are under so much stress, I’m excited to give kids a chance to practice their reading and hear some wonderful stories (and to give parents and caretakers a much-needed break).”

“Mondays with Michelle Obama” (#PBSKIDSRead, #ReadTogetherBeTogether) will be livestreamed simultaneously on PBS KIDS’ Facebook page and YouTube channel, and on Penguin Random House’s Facebook page, and will remain available for viewing on demand on all of those platforms immediately thereafter. The four books Mrs. Obama will read are:

April 20, 9am:   THE GRUFFALO
Written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler

April 27, 9am:   THERE’S A DRAGON IN YOUR BOOK
Written by Tom Fletcher and illustrated by Greg Abbott

May 4, 9am:       MISS MAPLE’S SEEDS
Story and pictures by Eliza Wheeler

May 11, 9am:        THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
By Eric Carle

Where’s your stimulus check?

If you qualify for an economic impact payment, the federal government is neck-deep in the process of depositing the first stimulus checks of up to $1,200 into the bank accounts of eligible US residents, beginning with people who have direct deposit set up with the IRS. Millions of people qualify for the payment, so when you receive the money could take time.

If you’re eligible, you can track the status of your check at any time through an online portal on the IRS website called Get My Payment.

If you haven’t received your stimulus check, then you’re probably wondering when it’s going to arrive. The first batch of stimulus checks already have been sent through direct deposit, and maybe you weren’t one of the lucky 80 million people. If you included your direct deposit information on your 2018 or 2019 federal tax return, the IRS already should have paid you through direct deposit.

The IRS is now sending paper stimulus checks, and plans to send approximately 5 million paper checks each week. The order of stimulus checks is not random or based on geography. The IRS will send checks starting with taxpayers who have the lowest annual adjusted gross income as reported on their 2018 or 2019 tax return, whichever is more recent. Here is the planned weekly schedule for the IRS to mail stimulus checks based on annual adjusted gross income, as first reported by The Washington Post. All dates represent the “week ending” (for example, the week ending April 24) and the IRS could change this schedule at any time.

Less than $10,000: April 24
$10,001 – $20,000: May 1
$20,001 – $30,000: May 8
$30,001 – $40,000: May 15
$40,001 – $50,000: May 22
$50,001 – $60,000: May 29
$60,001 – $70,000: June 5
$70,001 – $80,000: June 12
$80,001 – $90,000: June 19
$90,001 – $100,000: June 26
$100,001 – $110,000: July 3
$110,001 – $120,000: July 10
$120,001 – $130,000: July 17
$130,001- $140,000: July 24
$140,001 – $150,000: July 31
$150,001 – $160,000: August 7
$160,001 – $170,000: August 14
$170,001 – $180,000: August 21
$180,001 – $190,000: August 28
$190,001 – $198,000: September 4
Remaining checks: September 11