Photo by Yoshihiro Makino
Kranz, above, tends to a garden house designed to keep out wildlife. At right, Kranz works with a client on a garden using raised beds. Below right, a food box from Edible Gardens LA’s CSA.
“I am so happy and encouraged to see people really digging in and spending time.”
— LAURI KRANZ Gardening mentor
Seeds of inspiration Kranz’s reintroduction to gardening came when she volunteered for her then-5-year-old son’s school garden. Having lived in New York City before moving to Los Angeles, she’d spent many years without a garden, but the experience of gardening with her father growing up made a lasting impression. “He had an of f ice job during the week, but on weekends we would work in the vegetable garden— this very sma l l, modest vegetable garden, but so prolific with watermelons just rambling about and tall, beautiful sunf lowers,” she recalled. “This was such a happy time I had with my dad and I thought, ‘Oh, I would like to have this experience with my own child.’” She fell “madly in love” with the school garden and started other gardens, learning mostly from books and talking to farmers. People began asking her to set up their gardens, eventually hiring her to design, build and sustain them, which led to her business, Edible Gardens LA. Kranz shares some of her garden creations in her book “A Garden Can Be Anywhere,” which includes praise from famous clients such as actor Jason Bateman, singer Katy Perry, model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, TV personality Nicole Richie and chef Suzanne Goin, who also wrote the foreword and is now one of her CSA
Photo by Yoshihiro Makino
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