To help get some Los Angeles-area kids familiar with fruit and how it grows, San Diego-based Stretch Island Fruit Co. brought their "Fruit Tree 101" program up north earlier this week to help get over 70 fruit trees planted on campuses.
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Grow It, Eat It: Local Middle Schoolers Plant Fruit Trees On Campuses
What You're Pine-ing Fir: Angeles National Forest Will Be Home to 3 Million New Trees in Station Fire Burn Areas
The Angeles National Forest is still painfully scarred from the devastating 2009 Station Fire, and today comes word from the U.S. Forest Service that a project will find 3 million pine and fir trees planted in a 10,000-acre region over the next five years. As part of what is being hailed as "the first ecological response" to the massive blaze, those incoming trees will "offset greenhouse-gas emissions from a refinery in El Segundo," according to the LA Times.
Garden Plotting: Councilman Bill Rosendahl Rocks the Mic
Anyone who's spent anytime with Westside City Councilman Bill Rosendahl knows that once he gets the mic...he's going to be rocking it awhile. When I asked his staffer, Tony Arranaga, to put together "just a list of his 2011 garden plans" I shouldn't be surprised that Bill added his own commentary... and pictures... and philosophy... and CHICKENS!
Garden Plotting: Go Ahead, Kiss My Aster!
At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, one of our state's greatest Agriculture schools, they teach "Learn by Doing." That's when you get a bunch of type-A, 3.9 GPA college-y kids not used to failure and you get them out there and make them start shoveling shit (that is the word, it's not compost straight out of the cow). They learn "organic means lots of extra work" that way. Chemicals work too, but organic often mean mammals (us) are doing it. Then you let those same kids loose in a greenhouse where they proceed to propagate salvia stem cutting upside down and then forget the labels. After two weeks an instructor goes back, looks at a tray of unmarked death and then the lecture begins. "Did you label the varieties?" Did you use rooting hormone?" Did you keep track of what end of the stem was up?" At a college, school garden, or your patio, that's: learning by doing.
Garden Plotting: Tarheel Tips for SoCal Seed Sowers
It's 83 degrees where I've parked myself and the laptop. It's a little muggy from a marine layer burn off--this could be a sleepy version North Carolina with bad bar-b-que. But it's So Cal. We can pretend awhile with the next invited garden writer and her 2011 planting list favorites. It's Helen Yoest [Twitter] of Tarheel Gardening. She generously shared her must-haves from her own backyard planting scheme.
Garden Plotting: City Dwellers Get Country
It's the third day of 80 degree-weather in Los Angeles and you may be feeling like we missed spring. Spring is planting time and that takes the right seeds. I've written about companies that offer really great product, but nothing is better than the experience of friends. Their favorites might be your favorites too. Seeing that there is no "Yelp" for backyard gardens, I rely on my cadre of gardeners, garden writers and twitter cohorts to aide my planting decisions for the 2011 Season. I've leaned over the virtual fence of the internet to ask for advice from my community of gardeners. I've asked a dozen of stellar plant geeks to share their favorites with you.
Plant F-ing: Yo, Where My Genetically Modified Seeds At?
It could be my laziness, my deeper interest in the distracting end-products of “Cocktail Gardening” and its logical basil-infused cocktail hour or the simple fact that almost no major or minor home garden seed companies advertise Genetically Modified Organism products, but I haven’t been able to find any GMO products in the local garden center aisles. I’ve really, really tried.
May 1 is International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day
Saturday is May Day (which means immigration rallies) and a Big Sunday weekend volunteer day, but it's also "International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day."
For the fourth year, guerrilla gardeners all over the world will be creating sunflower gardens in some unexpected places...
Britney Spears Is Not an Heirloom Tomato but German Johnson Is
LAist's own Green Thumb is here to help you get into gardening...So, as he says: "Get down on your knees and start planting."
Photo Preview: 4th Annual Green Gardens Tour
This upcoming Saturday, April 26th, marks the 4th Annual Green Gardens Tour, which gives attendees a backstage pass to see six home gardens on the Westside that "demonstrate sustainable designs, practices, and technologies." With conservation issues a hot-topic in the Los Angeles area--and all over the world--the tour is a wonderful hands-on opportunity to see what some people have done in their own yards to pitch in to save our precious resources while creating beautiful and inviting landscapes. All of the gardens are professionally designed, but not only will attendees get to take home the Green Sourcebook that's loaded with valuable information (like plant lists!), they can hear lectures and demos on the tour all focused on this year's theme, which is Gardening With Intent.
Becoming a Citizen Forester with TreePeople
The Citizen Forester Class visits the Tree Planting Supervisor Class
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