Elia Woods, CommonWealth Urba.  Elia Woods has been a home gardener for 30 years. She worked as farm manager for KamalaGamble/Guilford Gardens before co-founding CommonWealth Urban Farms in the fall of 2010. Starting with one vacant lot in the Central Park neighborhood, CommonWealth now grows enough vegetables for weekly pick-up for 30 members, 8 months of the year. Countless volunteers and visitors have learned about growing food, composting, rainwater collection, bio-remediation and more. CommonWealth was influential in the writing and passage of the Urban Ag Ordinance in December, 2013 and helped organize the first OKC Urban Ag Week and Urban Farm Garden Tour in September of last year. CommonWealth is founded on the belief that local food is a key part of what makes a community healthy and resilient. CommonWealth was one of five organizations in Oklahoma to be named in the James Beard Foundation and Food Tank’s just-released 2014 Good Food Org Guide.She is also an eager student of Permaculture and Food Forests; hopelessly enthralled by growing cut flowers; and a devotee of West Coast Swing Dance. And to many of us, a Super Hero in the Local Food Community. Have you ever planted a lovely Spring veggie garden only to wind up with 50 radishes ripe at once, and a few zucchini plants that took the whole place over? In our ongoing quest to bring people closer to their food sources, Elia Woods is a great educator to help you plan what to plant and how much.  Elia Woods has been a home gardener for 30 years. She worked as farm manager for KamalaGamble/Guilford Gardens before co-founding CommonWealth Urban Farms in the fall of 2010. Starting with one vacant lot in the Central Park neighborhood, CommonWealth now grows enough vegetables for weekly pick-up for 30 members, 8 months of the year. Countless volunteers and visitors have learned about growing food, composting, rainwater collection, bio-remediation and more. CommonWealth was influential in the writing and passage of the Urban Ag Ordinance in December, 2013 and helped organize the first OKC Urban Ag Week and Urban Farm & Garden Tour in September of last year. CommonWealth is founded on the belief that local food is a key part of what makes a community healthy and resilient. CommonWealth was one of five organizations in Oklahoma to be named in the James Beard Foundation and Food Tank’s just-released 2014 Good Food Org Guide.She is also an eager student of Permaculture and Food Forests; hopelessly enthralled by growing cut flowers; and a devotee of West Coast Swing Dance. And to many of us, a Super Hero in the Local Food Community.