Growing their own
Garden club member and Rainbow Apartments tenants Chris Owens, left, and Lance Shaw help assemble a 104-square-foot, 6-foot-tall edible green wall in downtown Los Angeles. The garden wall was part of Urban Farmings Food Chain project, in which four edible walls are being planted downtown this week. Other locations include the Miguel Contreras Learning Center and the Weingart Center. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
“Hurricane” Edwards, left, Chris Owens, Martin Carlisle and Jannie Burrows assemble one of the 51 panels of the 104-square-foot, 6-foot-tall edible green wall. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Rainbow Apartments tenant Cenith Youngblood is excited about growing her own vegetables. I was trying to visualize what they meant by a green wall,” she said. “Now its beautiful. I see cucumbers and strawberries, and what are these? Basil? (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
A Rainbow Apartments tenant shows off a plump strawberry after finishing assembling an edible green wall in downtown Los Angeles. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
It took almost two hours for the group including Lance Shaw, at rear, Martin Carlisle, in red shirt, and Chris Owens to install the 51 panels of the edible wall. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
