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  • 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)

  • GUIDING PRINCIPLES

    Risograph print @ Max's Garage Press / Speckletone French Paper (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)

  • ONE YEAR IN LANDCARE: A PRACTICE GUIDE / UN AÑO EN EL CUIDADO DE LA TIERRA: UNA GUÍA DE PRÁCTICAS

    by Jen Toy, Morgan Rose, Lucia Bayley, Dante Iniguez (2023) 

    (free download) Hard copies available for purchase from Theodore Payne, Plant Material and Oaktown Nursery (Risograph print on speckletone paper)

  • COMMUNITY LANDCARE WITH USC ARCHITECTURE’S TEST PLOT INITIATIVE

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

  • MODELS OF COMMUNITY LANDCARE: BUILDING CLIMATE RESILIENT PARKS

    by Jen Toy, Mariah Lima / California State Parks Foundation (2023)

    (free download)

  • 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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