Markham Middle School
1. 📚Alma Reaves Woods/ Watts Branch Library
2. 🎓Compton Avenue Elementary School
3. 🌻Mini Park
4. 🏠Housing Authority of Los Angeles
5. 🎨 Watts Towers Arts Center
6. 🏥Kedren Community Health Center
7. 🎓College Bridge Academy
8. 🏠Watts Senior Citizens Center
9. 🎓Thomas Riley High School
10. 🎓Johnson High School
11. 🏠 Senior Housing
Within 1 mile of this garden are 7 other schools and 3 housing projects, making it a strategic gathering space in an emergency. Although Watts is only 2 miles wide, it’s one of the densest communities in LA with an average of 17,346 people per square mile. In addition to the 36,815 residents of Watts, the surrounding neighborhoods of Green Meadows, Florence-Firestone, and Willowbrook add up to almost 200,000 people living near the site
Community Healing Gardens’ Watts Healing Tech Garden at LAUSD’s Edwin Markham Middle School serves 700 middle school students with STEM education. Resiliency IN A BOX would directly benefit these students, their families, and the community with the WEDEW providing access to a pure, renewable source of water for them and the gardens. Additionally, the plants in the garden will be enhanced by the biochar to produce more food and healthier soil.