Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Tour

You can plant a meadow instead of a lawn! Native plants require no fertilizer, less water, and provide a variety of drought tolerant, lovely, easy to grow flowers for an attractive, easy to maintain front yard landscape! Because they have adapted to their environment and can tolerate drought, poor soil, and floods, they will take less…

Backyard Lifeboats

At our Organic Garden Club meeting, Dr. Sean Anderson, California State University at Channel Islands Environmental Science professor, gave a wonderful presentation on climate change, called “Backyard Lifeboats – Proactive Tools to Survive our Biodiversity Crisis.” There has been a massive habitat destruction in the world. Only 23% of the land remains wild and it’s…