Deep in the heart of industrial L.A., east of Downtown and across the Los Angeles River, lies a refuge of welcoming culture at South 356 Mission Road. Known only by its address, 356 Mission is home to events, exhibitions, artist studios, and an Ooga Booga outpost. It is also home to the most extreme Wildflowering L.A. site (Site #23). See the first chapter of their sowing saga.
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A favorite L.A. blog has stumbled across the first of our signs and posted a story.
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This morning we begin the drive around L.A. County to install the Wildflowering L.A. signs on the 50 selected project sites. It will probably take seven days, taking us from Topanga to Pomona, Lancaster to Palos Verdes. But today we will be working in and around the central hotbed of Northeast L.A., where a remarkable number of the sites are located, including Atwater Village, Mount Washington, Highland Park, Echo Park, Glassell Park, and Eagle Rock. If you live in this area, there is probably a Wildflowering L.A. field coming near you soon.
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Today is our deadline for project participants to sow their seeds. In many cases, this was preceded by strenuous site preparation by participants at each location, like weeding and lawn removal.
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New stories about Wildflowering L.A. were posted recently on local blogs Curbed LA and Los Angeles, I’m Yours.
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Our second and last public workshop was held today. The first workshop was earlier this week on October 27 at the Arboretum in Arcadia, the eastern end of L.A. County. Today’s workshop, however, was on the west end of the County at Rancho Cienega Park near Baldwin Hills. Both workshops allowed us to meet individually with County residents who want to wildflower their open land. We looked at photos and maps of each prospective plot, confirmed that it was sunny and visible enough, and that the owners were prepared for the work involved. Those who were confirmed met with Genny or Lili from the Theodore Payne Foundation for a personal site-specific wildflower sowing consultation, followed by a group seed sowing demo, before finally receiving their seeds carefully measured for their exact plot size.
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