Start with the Potato Challenge and follow up with tips that combine sustainable living with basic health and wellness practices. Come with your questions about stress management, healthy eating, and fun physical activity and go home with answers.
Healthy Me, Healthy Planet
Start with the Potato Challenge and follow up with tips that combine sustainable living with basic health and wellness practices. Come with your questions about stress management, healthy eating, and fun physical activity and go home with answers.
It Just Takes a Minute!
Earlier this year the MVCC sent a letter to the City Council supporting the City's Low Impact Development (LID) ordinance. Our work isn’t done! The LID ordinance is now scheduled to be heard before the City’s Energy and Environment Committee on December 7th at City Hall at 9:00 AM.
We need to get it passed through this committee and one additional committee before it can be heard before the full City Council. Our continued support is needed! If you can't attend, you can email the Councilmembers on the committee! You can also post about it on their facebook pages to drive awareness in the community. Let them know that this matters to us!
The December 7th meeting is an important step in the adoption of the LID Ordinance. Agendas are posted within 48 hours of the committee meetings. Please check the City Council calendar website on Monday December 6th for an update on the time, location and agenda for the meeting.
For ongoing updates regarding the proposed LID Ordinance, please visit the City’s L.A. Stormwater blog.
Did you know you affect the Monarch butterfly migration?
Drop by the MVCC Green Booth on Sunday November 28th to learn from the LA County Master Gardeners why we need to attract Monarch butterflies to our garden!
Monarch butterflies reside in our community and migrate through it. In order for them to establish a habitat, a true home, they need milkweed. It's the only plant upon which the females will lay eggs and the only plant the hatched caterpillars eat. Come to the booth and learn about how you can set up a simple habitat, and take home some seeds and seedlings.
We will have educational posters and photos and experts to help you learn and appreciate these lovely creatures, symbols of hope and rebirth around in many cultures and why they are at risk.
Since 1978, UC Cooperative Extension's Common Ground Program has made gardening possible for many Los Angeles County residents, particularly low-income and traditionally underrepresented families. The program goals are to improve nutrition; increase access to fresh, low-cost produce; offer gardening education; build bridges between neighbors and communities; help create employment opportunities; and encourage a cleaner, greener Los Angeles.
Families learn how to garden, grow their own food and prepare it in a healthful manner. In addition, the program trains community volunteers and Master Gardeners, who in turn, volunteer their time to community and school gardens.
This is a wonderful program - you may even want to explore signing up for the Master Gardener volunteer training program!
Meet our very own LOCAL Nursery for California Native Plants!
Go Native with Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden!
Join Garden Horticulturist Colleen Wheeler and Director of Visitor Services Eric Garton at the MVCC Green Booth at Mar Vista Farmers Market on Sunday, November 21st. See samples of beautiful native plants, get information from the experts, and learn resources for native plant gardening that will save water, money, and time, all while supporting the mission of California’s native garden. After the farmer’s market, visit Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden’s new Grow Native Nursery location in Westwood, adjacent Jackie Robinson Stadium. For more information visit http://www.rsabg.org/ or call 909-625-8767.
Founded in 1927, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden promotes botany, conservation and horticulture to inspire, inform and educate about California’s native flora. Through year-round public programming, outreach, and an unmatched collection of plants native to California on 86 acres in Claremont, the Garden strives to uphold its mission:
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden promotes botany, conservation and horticulture to inspire, inform and educate the public and the scientific community about California’s native flora. The Garden is devoted to the collection, cultivation, study and display of native California plants and to graduate training and research in plant systematics and evolution. Through all its programs, the Garden makes significant contributions to the appreciation, enjoyment, understanding and thoughtful utilization of our natural heritage
A brief history and introduction to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Susanna Bixby Bryant established Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSABG) in 1927. In setting aside 200 acres of her family’s Orange County ranch for the garden, Bixby Bryant provided a location for the research, study and appreciation of native California flora.
RSABG became an affiliated institution of The Claremont Colleges in 1951 when the Garden moved to its present location in Claremont, 35 miles east of Los Angeles. The Garden, an independent organization, became the home of Claremont Graduate University’s Botany Program.
As a research organization and institution of higher education, RSABG is involved with research in systematic and evolutionary botany (science fields that sort out the relationships and evolutionary history of plants).
Encouraging the use of California native plants in home landscapes is a major aspect of the Garden’s objective and to further this goal, we offer horticulture and community education programs to the public. The Garden’s grounds include many areas designed to illustrate the ways in which native plants can be used to achieve home garden and landscape design projects.
More than half of RSABG’s 86 acres is devoted to California plant communities—plantings designed to depict native plant habitats. The emphasis to display plants in their native habitats was established by Bixby Bryant in the early years of the Garden.
LEARN WHY PLASTIC BAGS ARE SO BAD FOR OUR OCEANS!
Visit the MVCC Green Booth at the Mar Vista Farmers Market on Sunday November 14th to learn why plastic pollution in our oceans is becoming an increasingly necessary problem to solve and find out what you can do to help.
Bring your questions to former MVCC Councilmember (and Mar Vista Farmers Market founder), Andy Shrader, who lobbied in Sacramento this past summer for AB 1998, the statewide plastic bag ban, as part of the Clean Seas Coalition.
GET INVOLVED!
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, DOWNTOWN L.A.:
History will be made November 16th. Please join Heal the Bay in supporting
The Board of Supervisors as they vote to ban plastic bags in Los Angeles
County (unincorporated areas). The rally will precede the meeting on the steps of the Hall of Administration. Please stay and testify in support of the ordinance. If you will be joining in or for more information email Meredith from the website or call 310.451.1500 ext. 116. Go here for more info and to RSVP.
WHEN
11/16/10
8:30 AM to 9:30 AM
WHERE
LA County Board of Supervisors, Hall of Administration 500 West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PLASTIC POLLUTION:
Watch this video to learn more!
5 Gyres – you may have met Anna and Marcus when they were our guest at the booth earlier this year
TEDx – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Heal the Bay
PBS Forum
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Be our Guest?
You are invited to be our guest at the MVCC Green Booth in 2011!
As we look ahead to 2011, we are grateful for the many community members that have joined us in hosting the booth. Sarah Auerswald of Mar Vista Mom and Annie Barnes of Inspire the Change will host the booth again in 2011 on topics that are specific to greening what we do with our kids. Melissa Stoller will return with her drive to collect shoes for Soles4Souls. Nancy Knapp of WeedsBloom will be hosting guests on sustainable garden issues.
Do you have a business or talent that focuses on an aspect of sustainability? Is there an organization or resource that you support that you can share to broaden our eco knowledge and efforts in the community? Please join us! We invite you to contact Jeanne@Marvista.org or Sherri@Marvista.org.
Want to Save Water and Money?
Join us as we welcome back Gary Kamisher of Gary’s Greenery. Gary is a licensed landscape contractor and creates waterwise, eco friendly gardens. He will answer all of your questions about irrigation design, installation, maintenance and common basics. Drip is 95% efficient whereas stray heads are about 55% efficient – let him tell you how much water you can save.
Learn about hydro zones, design, runoff, conversion to drip, what type of timer works best , which valves to use, how to tell if there is a leak in your drip system, different soil types and their effect on sprinkler water times!
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