![]() Within months, she’d hired him to plant a small orchard that was irrigated with gray water from the house. Silbert shared that she wanted to plant a garden at her home, using the sizable lot they had, and to have her kids experience harvesting their own food. Hirschfeld described his passion for planting edible landscapes to Silbert. “Ben was in the booth next to mine selling furniture he made from reclaimed materials, and we just started talking.” “I was at a sustainability pop-up market at the Google headquarters in Venice for Rewilder,” she says. When the family bought the property back in 2016, the main house occupied one lot, and a tennis court and a smaller bungalow and a patch of yard was on the other.Ī chance meeting with Hirschfeld changed everything. ![]() ![]() Silbert is an architect, a designer, a self-described “master scavenger,” and the founder of Rewilder, a company that upcycles waste, turning the banners advertising the Hollywood Bowl that hang on street lights across the city into tote bags, and foam scraps from the mattress industry and discarded industrial fabric into outdoor furniture. Silbert lives in the house at the top of a flight of stairs on the double lot with her husband, Aengus O’Neil-Dunne, and their three kids. ![]()
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