Sarasota, FL
The Ei Rewilding Urban Landscapes Pilots (Ei Pilots) support the modern-day-gardening movement and showcase how lawns may be replaced with vegetable gardens and food forests; the Ei Pilots are aesthetically pleasing as well as functional. Located in Holly’s spacious front and backyards, the Ei Pilots are easily accessible for tours.
On January 7, 2023 the FB group 941 Natural Gardeners hosted an Ei Pilots tour focused on the backyard food forest and the vegetable, herb and edible-flower garden. Nearly 30 intrigued local residents attended the Sunday morning tour. Though Holly lead the tour, the Ei Pilots Curator Zach Zildjian of ZZ Design Services was on site to answer in-depth and technical questions.
The RiA Magazine article, Local Food Security: building a movement through yard gardens and food forests, provides the history of gardening movements, chronicles the current gardening movement, and showcases the January Ei Pilots tour.