For work, he tends roses at the Huntington. At home, he inspires his Watts neighbors with his low-cost, DIY garden full of native plants, herbs and food.
In a densely populated Watts neighborhood desperately lacking green space, a garden is designed to facilitate healing and honor loved ones lost to violence.
Kyle and Claire Penn pulled out their lawn in Eagle Rock and never looked back. “We haven’t given up anything by not being able to run around on grass,” Kyle says.