The New Garden Initiative at OWMS

We have all been looking at that sad piece of property on the corner of Emerson Ave. and 80th Place for too long.  It has looked like a scrub land with a junk yard.  Soon it is all going to change.
Fast forward to Fall of 2011...
         You enter the gate on Emerson and to your left, you see a thriving student garden, abundant with nutrient rich foods that will be the source of a salad bar in the student cafeteria.  Classes of students happen daily, led by a sustainable agricultural teacher, where students learn how to grow for maximum productivity using organic principles....
           You turn to the right and before you is an engaging walking spiral and adjacent is an amphitheatre made out of pressed earth where students are having classes during the day and the community is having events on the weekends and evenings...... 
       Right beyond that are a number of garden plots that are tended by people in our community. You may sign up and have your own plot or you may choose to come visit and see what is happening....
      Walk a little further and there is space to enjoy the garden with benches under fruiting trees.  Have a snack on a peach or citrus while you are here....or you can take a stroll on the path that encircles the garden.  It is wide enough for a stroller or wheel chair and there are places to stop along to way to try a different fruits from another tree......


This is the Orville Wright Garden. 

A space for our students to grow...

A space for our community to grow...

Please become a part of making the Orville Wright Garden grow.

Currently we are having design and planning meeting happening with representaitives from the Mayor's Office, Rosendahl's Office, OWMS faculty and principal, WPEF, the Environmental Changemakers, and other community stakeholders.

Join us on Monday, January 17 for A Day of Service for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  This event is in conjunction with the Mayor's Office and LAUSD.