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Farmscape is the largest urban farming venture in Los Angeles. Inspired by the Victory Gardens of the 1940's we started in 2009 helping residents, schools, and businesses set up vegetable gardens and home orchards. To date, we have installed over 300 urban farms throughout Los Angeles and currently maintain 150 of those plots.
Anthony is a Los Angeles native and love to grow vegetables. He worked on numerous farms in the pacific northwest, including a seed-to-table education non-profit, teaching youth about food processes while increasing access in destitute areas. He attended UC Santa Cruz where he studied Food Agriculture and Social Justice. During that time he also worked grounds for the university, specializing in native/ edible landscaping. In Anthony's spare time he likes to hike, bike, be outdoors, play music, and karaoke.
Sun Gold Tomatoes
Dan, an Iowa native, is proud to practice a much different sort of agriculture than his home state is known for. As Farmscape's CEO, he oversees a multiple bottom-line approach that seeks to maximize the venture's social and environmental impact as well as its financial well-being. Dan is a Master Gardener and a member of the LA Food Policy Council's Working Group on Urban Agriculture. He is also a periodic contributor to The Huffington Post and Seedstock. In his free time, Dan enjoys playing basketball and board games, as well as volunteering with school and community garden projects.
Black Prince Tomatoes
Lara's interest in gardening began during her childhood in Chicago when she worked on her own backyard urban farm. After that she worked at Vital Zuman Sustainable Farm in Malibu before joining Farmscape in 2010. Since then, Lara has installed more than 100 urban farms and created Farmscape's school garden program. She is a Board Director for the Studio City Farmers' Market and is studying Project Management at UCLA. In her spare time Lara teaches yoga and meditation.
Purple Top Turnips
Lowell has nearly a decade of organic gardening and landscaping experience. He worked for five years as the groundskeeper at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, maintaining ornamentals and edibles including their Japanese-style meditation garden, before joining Farsmcape. In his spare time, Lowell likes biking, hiking, reading, and fly fishing.
Mr. Stripey Tomatoes
Meredith is a transplant from Maryland who has a passion for organic gardening. She managed a CSA for a small organic farm in Maryland and developed the Organic System Plan for the USDA People's Garden in Washington DC. After graduating from the University of Maryland with a degree in Horticulture, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue teaching organic gardening to children.
Heirloom Tomatoes
Sara, a Southern California native, has worked on organic farms in Northern California and Nicaragua. She also taught gardening workshops at a local elementary school prior to joining Farmscape. As a senior at UC Santa Cruz she studied seed saving as a strategy for preserving genetic diversity of the world's food supply.
Brussel Sprouts
Todd, a Southern California native, is a Farmscape founder and our gardening expert. Before helping start Farmscape, Todd co-founded the non-profit Claremont Food Not Lawns, organized the Packing House Green Market, and has years of organic gardening experience. He enjoys playing banjo with his wife Mary Beth's band, the Sugar Mountain Mama Serenade.
Carrots
Weston, a Tucson, Arizona native, manages the farmers and handles the complex logistics of a disaggregated urban farm, a difficult and often thankless job. He likes pets, flowers, and overcast days. He reads graphic novels and listens to KCRW. He is 6 feet, 2 inches tall but has yet to develop his skills as a basketball player.
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