Climbing the walls with Editable Crops in Los Angeles

It seems like for ever since I had the time to simply write unedited and free form without having to stay non-bias. We (Green Living Technologies) have been busy with some new products and key projects. I have also given up on trying to keep the pics in order or formatted .......I think we have made a dent in the revolutionizing the way Americans farm and garden....you may remember an earlier post I talked about gardening in our Green Living Wall panels...This year we have had a 100% success rate testing not only the leafy greens and tomatoes (again) but we added heavier crops like zucchini, cucumber and watermelon......we devised a shelf system to support the heavy crops while the root system is maintained in our green wall. The next few pics you will see the irrigation system, that can prob. be hidden better for cosmetics but I don’t care its R&D and extremely efficient. We also have herbs, spinach and testing thumbnail carrots that only grow to be 3" long and 3" fat...perfect for our 4" and 6' depths......Everything you see here is being tested in our 4" stainless steel panel. 

The next exciting project I want to bring to the public attention is our editable crop wall for the homeless in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. We partnered with Urbanfarming.org (Urban Farming LA), Warner Brothers and other key organizations to introduce editable Green Living Walls to help supplement the diet of the homeless society. This pilot project was the brainstorm of Joyce Lapinski with the help of Robin Osler. Joyce oversees Urban Farming LA and some of you may recognize Robins name, we worked with her in the past on the Huntsville Anthropologies wall. The premise to the editable green wall is not to feed the homeless society but we are giving these walls as a gift to empower people to take back their lives, regain a sense of belonging and we hope to create a positive social change. 750 square feet of green walls are being grown by the help of Hunter Francis and Cal Poly, San Luis Obisbo. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=O--eJ6wSuQE) The link is a preliminary You Tube upload that will eventually become a documentary filmed and edited by Kathy Kelly the founder and owner of the Winery Music Awards http://winerymusicawards.com/ (Sundance meets American Idol). The anticipated date of installations (4 locations) will be the week of July 28th.

Also check out the launch of our retail site (www.shop.agreenroof.com) to purchase a few do it yourself panels and our do it yourself green roof!