Don’t mow your lawn, grow your dinner!
From the LA Times: “Inspired by the victory gardens of World War II and the writings of food journalist Michael Pollan, architect and educator Fritz Haeg recently finished the first California installment of his Edible Estates initiative, an effort to replace water-guzzling, chemical-laden front lawns with a most appetizing alternative. Haeg aims to plant nine vegetable gardens nationwide in the next three years. In addition to the Edible Estate planted last month in Lakewood, another will be installed in August, Haeg says, on a rooftop in downtown L.A. Images of the Lakewood garden, produced in collaboration with the Millard Sheets Gallery, will be part of an exhibition at the L.A. County Fair from Sept. 8 to Oct. 1.”
Now, I for one would be afraid neighbors would steal all my basil. But then again, *my* neighbors probably wouldn’t even recognize basil unless it sprouted lips and started talking to them … which in the case of the schizophrenics next door to me, is not out of the realm of possibility.
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