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Los Angeles, CA – Los Angeles partners with the Theodore Payne Foundation in an urban horticulture program

Here’s a good idea: Plant low-water gardens to replace dead expanses of lawn in public housing projects. An even better idea: Plant gardens of California natives to replace those brown lawns. The best idea, however, is the one still unfolding at Los Angeles public housing projects: Teach the projects’ grounds crews and enough residents about horticulture, landscape design, and garden maintenance so that the new gardens will survive and thrive with on-site care