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metropolitan habitats
Living Wall Installations… Everywhere
Living Walls: How to Design, Plant, and Price Them – SFGate.com, May 4, 2013
A living wall makes a beautiful and dramatic focal point that pleases clients… highlights the abilities and professionalism of your company. Learn what you need to know about adding these popular interiorscape features to your company’s list of accomplishments.
Featuring Jim Mumford, GreenScaped Buildings, San Diego CA
Read more: http://events.sfgate.com/san_francisco_ca/events/show/314681063-living-walls-how-to-design-plant-price-them
The Value of Appreciation
“People don’t work for wages only. They primarily seek an environment that will show them APPRECIATION, both publicly and privately. Wages come and go. As we travel through life, the most important memories we take with us are about how those who showed us Appreciation and Love.”—Rev. Ken Lanning, 1996.
I love this quote. Reverend Ken is a stand-up guy who visits our office on occasion. Once I remember I was eager to show him our green roof, but wary of him getting up to the roof itself. I needn’t have worried though because just as I looked to find a more sturdy lift, there was Reverend Ken climbing a ladder at age 83 to see what all the hoopla was about with my roof. … Read More
TEDx Youth Talk by Jim Mumford: Living architecture
Sharing beautiful images and a compelling story about how his successful plantscaping business bloomed into a pioneering player in the burgeoning field of living architecture, Jim Mumford shows how uber-sleek depictions of futuristic cities are way off the mark. His talk to San Diego high school students on the theme of “Architects of the Future,” demonstrates how plants and metropolitan habitats on walls, roofs, patios at work and at home will bring nature into our lives even more in the future, not less.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.… Read More
GreenScaped Buildings Installs Living Wall at Fashion Valley – Mission Times Courier
Shoppers enjoying their next trip to the popular Fashion Valley in San Diego will be greeted by a beautiful and unexpected sight, thanks to the installation of a cutting-edge “living wall” at the property this week.
The first of its kind at a San Diego County retail property, living walls or green walls are structures that allow plant materials to grow on a building, but have the added benefit of allowing them to grow on vertical spaces indoors or outdoors. Both types of walls grow in “found space,” using far less space than typical gardens. Living walls can be planted with a wide variety of plants.… Read More
Good Earth Plants and Greenscaped Buildings Fashion Valley Mall Project Gets Noticed
We’re in the News!
San Diego Business Journal details the project as part of the shopping center’s remodeling efforts
Feel free to read the post here:
‘Living Wall’ Is Part of Fashion Valley Makeover Plans
Or for your reading convenience; here is the full post featured on the San Diego Business Journal’s Website:
‘Living Wall’ Is Part of Fashion Valley Makeover Plans
By LOU HIRSH Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Simon Property Group Inc. is installing a 46-foot-long, 16-foot-tall “living wall” feature at its Fashion Valley mall, to be covered with 4,000 ornamental plants, ferns, grasses and eight different types of ground coverings.… Read More
Business owner also known as eco entrepreneur – San Diego Daily Transcript
In business since 1977, Jim Mumford has had plenty of time to figure out what he wants his company to stand for. That said, the past 12 months have gone a long way in defining Good Earth Plant Co.
What began as a general flower shop set up by Mumford at the age of 20 is today one of the few places around San Diego that companies and individuals turn to when looking to turn their homes and offices into sustainable green spaces.
Finding practical ways to put plants in new and interesting places has changed the business model to where Mumford has added a second arm: Greenscaped Buildings.… Read More
Here We Grow – Pacifica San Diego Magazine
When there’s no space on the ground, Jim Mumford plants on the walls and the roof. His Kearny Mesa-based company, Good Earth Plant Company, has been providing plantscaping services for San Diego homeowners and businesses for more than 30 years. Today, Mumford’s new venture, GreenScaped Buildings, also creates “green roofs” and “living walls,” giving life to otherwise inanimate objects.
Read more: http://www.pacificsandiego.com/2010/04/24/here-we-grow/
Good Earth Plant Company: Vertical veggies – KFMB TV CBS 8 News
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CBS 8) – When the folks at Good Earth Plant Company want some from veggies or herbs, all they do is clip them right off their wall.
“We’ve got parsley, we’ve got some beets, we’ve got some mint, a little bit of rosemary, strawberries,” Jim Mumford said.
Mumford has developed a wall system to grow vegetables vertically.
Watch the story here://
San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com
Read more: http://www.cbs8.com/story/11923046/good-earth-plant-company-vertical-veggies
