Global Garden

By David Crow, L.Ac.

www.thelearninggarden.org
Introduction
The Learning Garden is a 60,000-square-foot garden located at Venice High School in Venice, California, in the Los Angeles Unified School District. It was launched in March of 2001, and has since become one of the countrys largest and most successful school gardens. It contains plots for the high schools horticultural program, a peoples pharmacy of medicinal plants, a California native plant and cactus garden, a pond with water-loving medicinal plants, a greenhouse and shade house for propagation, a large stone patio for community gatherings and outdoor classes, a sunken kiva classroom surrounded by raised beds of Chinese medicinal plants, a rose garden, a large composting system, and a permaculture-style food forest. The entire garden is organically cultivated.

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By David Crow, L.Ac.

June 25, 2005, Wheaton College, MA

In my opinion, the only truly meaningful endeavor for humanity at this time is replanting the global garden. Without a massive international effort to reduce greenhouse gases, stabilize climate change, and stop the decline of the earths life support systems by using plants, all the other good struggles of the new world revolution will be overtaken by ecological chaos. On the other hand, simply by starting the unifying effort to replenish the earths botanical abundance, all those other struggles will become successful. In my eyes, the people who are working toward manifesting this vision are the true leaders, heroes, and role models of this age. And the key to this effort is medicinal plants.

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Written by Franke C. Prater (21) and Radha Ruiz (17)

talkin’ ‘bout sports medicine, herbs for young people and healing the earth

David Crow, author of In Search of the Medicine Buddha, is an acupuncturist and herbalist who travels the world supporting a vision of grassroots healthcare, sustainable use of botanical medicine and restoration of global ecology through indigenous systems of healing including Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. In order to learn more about the present – and future of botanical medicines and youth involvement in health and wellness – YAP staffers sat down with David Crow. (more…)