Writing

Ross Martin’s not a writer by trade, he never intended to be. He’s a landscape architect from out west with a profound love for the natural environment. He quizzically finds himself mired and out of work on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Desperate and depressed he enters the garden gate of La Plaza Cultural. The decrepit place looks like he feels. They bond. Over two decades Martin helps restore and save it from development. Ultimately creating an off grid food forest, wetland infiltration system, and solar pavilion where he teaches tenets of permaculture, regenerative design and sustainable living. His garden memoir, Viva La Plaza, narrates this unique success story. Continually being asked what makes a weed a weed compels Martin to pen humorous blogs called Weed of the Week. In Off the Rails, a train journey around the country, he visits, interviews, and writes about others doing similar works, all while being videoed by acclaimed filmmaker Alvah Holmes. Hilarity and drama ensues.

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