Monthly Archives: May 2018
Fire-Defensive Garden Design
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2018
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Huntington Gardens (Map), Ahmanson Classroom (Plan Your Visit)
Tickets: Free After 2:00 pm
Join FormLA Landscaping president and USGBC-LA board member Cassy Aoyagi at Huntington Gardens to learn the ins and outs of creating a fire-wise landscape. Â Aoyagi and FormLA designers Isara Ongwiseth and Eric Crow have designed fire-wise gardens for LA Fire Department Stations in Sierra Madre and Sunland-Tujunga, the Sunland Welcome Nature Garden, and residences throughout LA County.
Training topics will include how to:
1) Identify plants to avoid or remove for fire safety
2) Find substitutes for popular but combustible materials
3) Select the rightfire-wise plants for your garden
4) Install to minimize ongoing brush clearance needs
5) Maintain exterior spaces to best protect homes and lives.
Every garden and open space in LA has a role to play in mitigating fire, flood, slide and climate-change related dangers. By digging in together, we can make our own luck and increase the city’s resilience. We hope you’ll join us to learn how!
Discovery Garden Grand Opening
Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018
Time: 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Simi Valley Library, 2969 Tapo Canyon Rd, Simi Valley (Map)
Tickets: Free, no RSVP
Join LA Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC-LA) in the unveiling of its 2018 Legacy Project, a 100 percent native garden designed by Lisa Novice, the community education director of the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants. We hope you’ll join us in celebration!
USGBC-LA’s annual Legacy Project is a gift to the under-served communities in our region from the USGBC-LA members who assist in designing, building, and supporting it. The Legacy Project team strives to ensure the project is community-supported, has an educational and sustainable focus, and serves a variety of social-economic conditions.
Every garden and open space in LA has a role to play in supporting the resilience, health and wellbeing of residents, as well as mitigating fire, flood, slide and climate-change related dangers. By digging in together, we can make our own luck and increase the city’s resilience. We hope you’ll join us in celebration of a project and a community that has done just that!
Here is the opening day schedule:
10:30 Official Grand Opening Program Civic Impact
10:45 Refreshments
11:15 Lisa Novick and Cassy Aoyagi re Environmental Impact
12:00 Amy Kaltenbach Educational Impact and Children’s Activities
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