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  • HILL OF DREAMS

    How a group of neighborhood volunteers, experts, and local officials in Los Angeles joined forces to create a thriving native plant habitat at Elephant Hill Open Space

    by Stu Vanairsdale / FLORA CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY (FA 2025)

  • LA NONPROFIT REPAIRS DEPLETED PARK LANDS, ONE 'TEST PLOT' AT A TIME

    by Fiona Ng / LA ist (2025)
    Video here

  • YOUTH POWER: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS LEADING THE WAY IN SOUTH EL MONTE

    by Eliana Ibarra / LA County Youth Climate Commission Summer Newsletter (2025)

  • THIS SMALL TWEAK TO CA PARKS COULD HELP PREVENT FIRES

    by Nate Berg / Fast Company (2025)

  • RESTORING THE LAND, ONE PLOT AT A TIME

    Q&A with Alex Robinson / Pando Populus (2024)

  • FROM EARTHWORK TO TEST PLOT: TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO ECOLOGICAL REPARATION

    by Emma Kemp / Carla Magazine Issue 36 (2024)

  • TRANSGRESSIVE PRACTICES TO TRANSFORMATIVE POLICIES: LANDSCAPE CHANGE, FAST & SLOW

    Centerline 16: Center for American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture / edited by Maggie Hansen (April 2024)

  • ASK THE EXPERTS: 11 FAVORITE NATIVE PLANT COMBINATIONS

    by Melissa Ozawa / Gardenista (2024)

  • COLLABORATION: GARDENS AND GARDENING - SOCIETY AND COMMONS DESIGN EDITION

    by Yoshiki Mishima / NIWA No.255 (Summer 2024) (Japanese)

  • USC Wrigley Institute, School of Architecture collaborate to test sustainable landscape design methods

    by Vanessa Codilla / USC Dornsife News (January 2024)

  • LANDSCAPE OF CARE: POLITICS, PRACTICES, AND POSSIBILITIES

    by Sarah Jacobs and Taryn Wiens / Landscape Reserach (2023)

  • GARDEN ECOLOGIES SYMPOSIUM: ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION AND CARE

    Speaker / Rice School of Archtecture (2023)

  • TEST PLOT: AN ONGOING EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNITY BASED LANDCARE

    Department lecture / Rhode Island School of Design (2023)

  • INTERGENERATIONAL WATERSHED STEWARDSHIP

    Speaker / Contra Costa Creek and Watershed Symposium (2023)

  • COMMUNITY LANDCARE WITH USC ARCHITECTURE’S TEST PLOT INITIATIVE

    Test Plot Emphasizes Experimentation, Learning And Community-Building / USC Architecture News (2023)

  • ELEPHANT HILL TEST PLOT WINS PANDO DAYS '22 AWARD!

    PANDO DAYS is a program in higher ed that brings together educators from the arts, humanities, sciences, and communications to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing LA County.

  • EL SERENO’S GUERRILLA GARDENERS SOW NATIVE PLANTS TO RESIST GENTRIFICATION IN DEVELOPER-CONTESTED LAND

    by Daniel Thalkur / LA TACO (2023)

  • CALIFORNIA ARTISTS, CHEFS FIND CREATIVE WAYS TO CONFRONT DESTRUCTIVE ‘SUPERBLOOM’ OF WILD MUSTARD

    by Julie Watson / Associated Press (2023)

  • INVASIVE MUSTARD IS HERE TO STAY: YOU CAN USE IT TO DYE CLOTHES

    hosted by Steve Chiotakis / Greater LA KCRW (2023)

  • CONCRETE HABITAT

    by Tayla Meyers / Flora / California Native Plant Society / (Spring 2023) (subscription only)

  • VIDEO: SAN BRUNO MOUNTAIN TEST PLOT "ULAP/FOG"

    Timelapse of planting under the eucalyptus with San Bruno Mountain Watch  (Spring 2023)

  • THE LAB IN THE BACKYARD: USC’S LANDSCAPE JUSTICE INITIATIVE AIMS TO GIVE STUDENTS GRASSROOTS PERSPECTIVE ON THEIR FIELD

    by Patrick Sisson / Landscape Architecture Magazine (2022)

  • TEST PLOTS IN LOS ANGELES GROW MORE THAN NATIVE CROPS: A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE WHO CARE

    by Emily Nonko /  Next City (2022)

  • PODCAST: TEST PLOT FOR A COMMUNITY BASED LAND STEWARDSHIP ETHIC WITH JEN TOY & JENNY JONES

    hosted by Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place Podcast (2022)

  • NATIVE PLANTS ARE BRINGING NEW LIFE TO L.A.'S RAVAGED AREAS

    by Jeanette Marantos / LA Times (2022)

  • VIDEO: BUILDING CLIMATE RESILIENT PARKS

    The California State Parks Foundation (2022)

  • LEARNING LAND CARE

    by Dani Vonlehe / UC Berkeley / Ground Up Journal Issue 10: Breathe (2021)

    (free download)

  • TEST PLOT WINS A+D AWARD "BIGGER THAN A STREET, SMALLER THAN A CITY"

    Runner Up! / A+D Museum / (2021) 

  • THE FUTURE OF LANDCARE IN LOS ANGELES

    University of Southern California / ARCH 642 / Student Studio Coursework (2020)

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