Event: Adolfo V. Nodal and Lauren Bon write an "Action Plan" for "Strawberry Field"

March 15, 2009

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With the project still called "Strawberry Field" at this point, the Action Plan describes a timeline from September 2008 to December 2009, starting with six months of discussion and research with the WLA-VA, the Annenberg Foundation and Valley Crest. It proposes replacing the contaminated topsoil in the Bldg. 205, 208, 209 quad and growing strawberries – helped by "music for strawberries to grow by" – and processing them into jam. Additionally the project will open a Tea House at the WLA-VA's remaining Hoover Building and site an Airstream field studio and a catering vehicle on the WLA-VA campus. Storage space for jam jars and gardening tools is requested. Managed with the help of veterans in WLA-VA programs the Tea House will host daily "healing teas", display materials related to WLA-VA history, and operate as both a starting point for campus tours and a locus for gathering veteran's stories, which will be printed on the jam jar labels. Strawberry Fields is planned to reach its full start on July 4, 2009 with a "Strawberry Parade" and culminate on November 11, 2009, followed by a month for clean up and departure.

Strawberry Flag

Lauren Bon, Adolfo V Nodal