For 9 months students at All Peoples and students at Mar Vista have heard about each other’s gardens. They’ve asked “How do they do their thang?” They finally found out. All Peoples Students visited Mar Vista where they took a tour of the garden, saw Mar Vista’s new aquaponics system (very cool!), and shared their successes, failures, and future plans for the garden. At the end of the exchange Mar Vista gave their South LA visitors a very cool gift: some vegetable seedlings. This may just be the beginning of a productive long term collaboration…
Written: 17th March 2011