Sat Nov 14 - SBCC Plant Sale!
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****Fall Plant Sale****
When: Saturday, November 14th, 9:00am - 1:00pm
Where: Lifescape Garden Greenhouse & Shadehouse
What: tropicals, perennials, succulents, natives, bananas, etc.
How Much: Prices range from $1 to $5 (except very large plants)
Why: Everything must go to make room for new propagations. Great time for fall plantings!
Parking is free and open to the public on Saturday.
Contact Mike for more details.
Michael Gonella, Ph.D.
Chair, Environmental Horticulture Dept.
www.sbcc.edu/environmentalhorticulture/website
Santa Barbara City College
721 Cliff Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93109
805-965-0581 x3042
gon...@sbcc.edu
Kevin Gleason
I am an art teacher at Dos Pueblos high school and with an
enthusiastic group of students we have sheet mulched an oval of grass
about 20 X 60 feet in size and have begun plans to build a productive
food forest right in the middle of campus. (I started my first
permaculture garden in my backyard inspired by many of the ideas and
people this community has brought to town.) We dug shallow swales to
catch runoff from the surrounding sidewalks and a roof gutter and have
piled up soil for a future herb spiral. I have attached a photo of
our site below. Our vision is to have a lush mini-forest of low
water, multi-functioning plants and flowers, Chumash medicinal herbs
(white sage, yerba santa, etc.), dwarf fruit trees and some annuals.
A month and a half has passed and we're nearing the time of year when
the mulch has started to break down and we could start putting things
in the ground. We are brainstorming fundraising possibilities, which
I think is an important part of the process, but I also thought I
would throw a request out to the community if anybody has plants,
tools, compost, or other things that they would like to donate to our
project. We will take any offers, but below is a list of things that
we need and if anybody has a surplus, we could definitely put it to
good use.
Thank you so much!
Sincerely,
Kevin Gleason
(805) 968-2541 ext. 268
kgle...@dphs.org
Art Teacher
Dos Pueblos High School
Tools:
shovels
pruners
digging forks
a hose and nozzle
Drip line:
we need about sixty feet of 1/2" poly drip line, 60' of the 1/8" drip
line and lots of emitters to put in a drip system
to irrigate the garden as it gets established and in dry seasons.
Plants:
Fruit trees (preferably that have seasons during the school year
(figs, mandarins, avocado, apples, etc.)
Low water and native plants (some ceonothus would be good as a
nitrogen fixer, some insectary plants and herbs would be great.
Seeds for a cover crop this winter
