We just completed installation of a Woolly Pocket Garden at La Sierra Military Academy in Visalia, CA. The school has a bare wall that was erected by a neighbor who wasn't too happy about his view of obstacle courses and students in fatigues. We installed Wally 5 pockets along and wall to create a vertical garden in the hopes of "greening" the bare wall and providing vegetables for the cafeteria to serve at lunch. The students in Mr. Passorelli's class... [more]

Of course in listening to Alice Waters, the subject of nutrition had to enter the issue—and, for nutrition, the Woolly Pocket was a natural. “When you’re growing your own vegetables organically, that’s nutrition,” Nelson remarked. “That is the basic of nutrition, in and of itself.”

At that same Alice Waters’ talk, Nelson met Emily Burson, a registered dietitian and founder of a company called School Nutrition Plus.