ANNOUNCING EDIBLE ESTATES #2: LOS ANGELES

This Memorial Day weekend, Edible Estates comes to Los Angeles. We will be in Lakewood to remove the Foti family's front lawn and replace it with a dense, diverse, productive edible landscape of fruits, vegetables, grains and herbs.

We are in need of help! Anyone have a truck or pick-up to get the sod-cutter and tiller? Anyone get a thrill out of operating those cutting & tilling machines? Want to help us plant? Want to get your hands in the dirt and mix in manure? Do you have some beautiful stone pavers to use as stepping stones? We will feed you and you will never be thirsty.

Email us at info@edibleestates.org or call 323.829.5998 to let us know when you want to come and lend a hand. Saturday noon - 6pm we will remove the lawn and till, amend and grade the soil. Sunday 8am - 6pm we lay out the garden, build bamboo trellis's and begin to plant . Monday 9am - 8pm we finish trellis's, planting and mulching.

6530 Denmead Street, Lakewood, California, 90713

 

The Los Angeles incarnation of the Edible Estates project will be as sprawling and complex as the city that it is taking on. Prototype gardens will be established both in the front yard of a residence in the iconic 1940's housing development of Lakewood and on the downtown Los Angeles rooftop of a newly converted condominium building. The Lakewood garden is produced in collaboration with the Millard Sheets Gallery at the L.A. County Fair as a part of 'Fair Trade', an exhibition in fall 2006 of projects by contemporary artists throughout the fairgrounds. All plants and materials for the Lakewood garden have been donated by Armstrong Garden Centers. Edible Estates including #1 Salina and #2 Los Angeles will be the subject of an exhibition and series of events at Machine Project in Fall 2006.

visit www.edibleestates.org for all the details...