From our new Field Trip Chair Jane:
“On Saturday September 14 at 10 am, the WLA Chapter will visit the Patient Garden at the Long Beach Veterans Medical Center, 5901 E. 7th Street Long Beach 90822. The garden’s purpose is therapy, rehabilitation, and enjoyment of the veterans. They have a mixture of vegetables, ornamentals and fruit trees; several structures provide for greenhouse, hothouse , and propagation space.
I was surprised that the several members I spoke to didn’t know of its existence; maybe I have had more injured Vets in my life. After the loss of the WLA VA Garden I want to make sure we know about this one before it is ever threatened. The will be no lecture-like tour but perhaps we could talk about land closer to us where we could make some contribution.
Please try to carpool.( At the next meeting I am going to have people clustered by neighborhood to facilitate carpooling in the future.) I will bring our chapter’s big water jug with ice and lemons. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CUP, a chair if you can, and fruit to share out of hand.
For a second activity, some carpools might want to go south to Westminster for supermarkets and other fruit markets. Going north I suggest stopping the International Garden Center, 155 N Pacific Coast Highway, El Segundo 90245. Sepulveda becomes N PCH in El Segundo. I treat myself to a visit here when I take someone to LAX. While there is nothing particularly International about it, they have a wide range of products: trees, perennials, fruits, vegetables, seeds, bulbs, and my favorite Annies’ Annuals.
(Enter the VA facility by the 7th Street entrance. Veer to the right and stay to the right making only right turns when a turn is necessary. The garden is in the north/east corner of the campus and parking is on the ride hand side of the street . There is a water tower quite close I always look up to verify my location.)”