WCA Brings Green Space to Skid Row Launch Event

August 1, 2008

WCA recently received a vertical garden—installed on an outside wall in the courtyard area of our residential building—from Urban Farming, a nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger.   Engineered by Green Living Technologies, the wall garden is a modular panel that has an auto-irrigation system that controls the flow of water through every cell for even saturation and easy maintenance.

Our vertical garden contains various fruits and vegetable plants, including tomatoes, tomatillos, cucumbers, chives, leeks, strawberries, hot peppers, bell peppers, mint, nasturtiums, lavender, calendula and marigolds.

WCA hosted a launch event for the wall on August 1, which featured guest speakers Ed Begley, Jr. (actor/activist), Richard Lewis (actor/comedian/Urban Farming Advisory Board), WCA President and CEO Gregory C. Scott and members of Urban Farming.

WCA is excited about the wall garden because it will enable our participants to grow and harvest their own fresh, organic produce, and will help create opportunities for team building, skills-training and community involvement. The wall garden also provides much needed ‘Green’ space in our urban environment. WCA plans to have a Garden Club for its participants as well as create a vocational program for horticulture as part of WCA’s workforce development.