Outside the studio door: herbs, lettuce, arugula, chives, tomatoes, artichokes, peas, strawberries, chard and kale. For pest control reasons and to boost nutrients, they’re planted with yarrow, zinnias, clover, petunias and nasturtiums. The fence was made from the encroaching bamboo grove next door. When whitefly began to move into the bamboo, hordes of bush tits and dragonflies flew in to eat them.