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When the late, great Michael Jackson wrote his smash hit Off the Wall, with its signature line “Livin’ off the wall,” he probably didn’t mean it literally. But in a widening number of schools across the country, students are starting to do just that—growing their own food in pouches called Woolly Pockets, hung from outside walls. And if Miguel Nelson, founder of Woolly Pockets, has his way, every school in the country will be eating from their own vertical wall mini-farms.
“There seem to be so many reasons why schools can’t have gardens,” Nelson told Natural Vitality Kids. “We came up with a solution that would actually eliminate all of those reasons—the gardens can be put up on walls. We’ve just started and we already have a couple hundred schools signed up. Our goal is to grow 11,000 school gardens by next summer.”
The Woolly Pocket was created when Nelson wanted to put a family garden on the walls of his home courtyard. “My family—my wife and my kid and I—have a courtyard, and it’s really pretty except for its big, tall blanks walls. So a few years ago I decided we could cover it with plants. I couldn’t find any system on the market that would allow me to do that, so I just came up with an idea to hang plants on the wall, and we did and it worked really well. Then all of our friends liked it so much we decided to go ahead and start making the pockets to sell. A year ago my brother and I started Woolly Pockets online.”
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edited by KimCaples on 8/20/2010
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