
To deter ants, each leg was moated in a cereal bowl filled with soapy water. They built “honeymoon suites,” rustic wood boxes with screened-in lids and sides that stand on four tall legs. The first year she recruited 18 students to work on the project. was my home, my safety net was my friends and it’s always necessary to have a team, whether you need help rearing butterflies or buying groceries.” “That’s where I finally realized that L.A.

what a godsend was that program.”Īnd on Fridays, friends always dragged them to the beach, she said. “And to my fellow moms, friends to this day, who would leave Ralphs cards on my doorstep so I could buy groceries and ask if I’d heard of LA84, where your kids can do sports for free during the summer. “I’m writing to friends who helped teach my son to read and invited us over for the holidays when we had nowhere to go,” she said.

Sam just finished his junior year at Loyola Marymount University, studying finance, and Max just graduated from Pepperdine University with degrees in biology and history, so Johnson said she’s been sending thank yous to the people who helped raise her boys to college-age men. So she created a habitat garden in pots on her tiny townhouse patio in Santa Monica. And she didn’t even need a yardīarbara Chung fell in love with native plants, but she didn’t have a yard. Lifestyle Her tiny native plant habitat garden is flourishing.
