Military families stationed there used the soil to plant flowers. Soon, Alcatraz began to sprout like ... including eight types of bees, plus hummingbirds, monarch butterflies, pelicans and ...

It was Goodman’s idea to plant the flowers from the CCWF garden on Alcatraz. Mercado recalled presenting the idea to the CCWF’s cohort of gardeners. “We told them about getting plants and ...