Drawing on our grandparent's time of Victory Gardens, when 20 million Americans built gardens in their front and backyards, Farmscape which is a garden installation and maintenance service in LA, and runs a cool blog, just built a rooftop garden in downtown LA!?!?
That's crazy! This city is making strides in the local, fresh, and organic movement, though in typical LA fashion, this luxury is reserved for the elite members of the Jonathan Club, the private club that commissioned this 200 square foot garden on their roof. We at Food Justice House commend the JC for taking this next step toward Food Justice but also wish that we could go try some.
They are having problems with aphids ^ the little critters find the roof top garden a wonderful oasis in the otherwise "hardscaped" environment of DTLA. An article mentioned that they are trying ways to deal with this while staying organic though. Farmsacpe is currently looking for other interested restaurants as well as options for schools. This could be the start of something big!
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