Where the Farm Ends

So as you may or may not have noticed, I have not been posting anything about the LA Urban Garden. This is due to the fact that I have moved to Oakland to study Eastern & Integrative Medicines at AIMC in Berkeley. I am preparing to become an amazing healer, teacher, and student of the powerfully elegant techniques of acupuncture, qi gong, body-work, herbal medicine, and nutrition.

I left the garden where it was at the end of the summer, around July 30th, 2007. At that point it was partially cared for by my sister and her roommates. I must say they did a fair job of caring for the garden and while they are not as meticulous as I was, the garden thrived and grew into the one of the few wild edible patches of land in the city of Los Angeles. So here are the final images of this wonderful and rewarding project;


There is still a lot of kale and I took a whole bunch of amazing chard and ate it for dinner. The basil have all overgrown and are seeding so hopefully whoever lives there next will enjoy basil because I have a feeling it will come back in groves. The Hawaiian Baby Woodrose vine is going wild; I think it is about 10-15 feet long and it is moving up an old avocado tree. This coming spring and summer it should be making some beautiful flowers. There are a lot of tomatoes and it remains to be seen how the chili peppers fare. The tobacco flowers are gigantic and happy and the lone poppy is growing nicely. Perhaps it will flower someday this spring?

All is well in this little microcosm and the Sweet Buddha of Abundance and Peace now sits joyfully in my parent's garden in San Jose.

Blessings to you who read these words of Love and Light. May wild and edible organic gardens appear everywhere, especially in our Urban jungles. ALOHA