Yep, we’re going live, folks. This Saturday at 9:30 am, join me, David Newsom (Wild Yards Project) at Plant Material nursery for an Instagram Live Stream  event, “Habitat Gardens are Victory Gardens”

With the exquisite resources of this brilliant little nursery here in Northeast LA, we’ll launch a lively discussion about how you can create vital habitat for countless plant and animal species in your yard while you sequester carbon, lower your resource Impact, increase the yield of your edible gardens and transform the future. And if that’s not enough, we’ll even be serving mimosas! Well...I’ll be drinking them, and I encourage you to join me. On line, of course.

Saturday, 4/18

9:30 am PST

IG Livestream

We need an army of good souls to help us wrangle weeds and participate in a site clean up.  Be a warrior for this newly planted habitat garden, and learn about native plants where you live at the same time. 

Coffee and bagels provided. 

WHEN: Saturday Feb 8, 9am-12 pm

WHERE: 4848 Eagle Rock Blvd @ Addison

NOTE: Due to the sensitive state of the young garden, kids under 9 cannot participate in the cleanup and weeding, BUT the play area will be open. This will be strictly, but lovingly, enforced!

Bring gloves and prepare to get dirty!

RSVP: wildyardsproject@gmail.com

CNPS-San Diego is excited to present a day-long workshop that includes five presentations on understanding symbiotic relationships in your native garden and incorporating sustainable and regenerative practices. Topics include bringing wilderness into your backyard, harvesting rainwater, understanding and regenerating your soil, permaculture and agroecology, and tips and tricks from design to install from a recent landscape installation. The workshop will be held in the beautiful, contemporary auditorium of the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. An extended 80-minute lunch hour will allow you to picnic or dine in the park as you discuss and absorb the morning presentations. Nearby exhibit native gardens will be available for viewing.

DETAILS
There will be five sessions in all, including an opening address from David Newsom, Founder of Wild Yards Project. Ari Tenenbaum, Founder of Revolution Landscape, will present an analysis on the design to installation of a recent local sustainable landscape install. Mid-day presentations will be deep-dives on certain areas of sustainable principles to incorporate into your native garden, including rainwater harvesting, soil maintenance, and permaculture and agroecology.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
*Impacts your yard can have on biodiversity and revamping our wilderness spaces
*Passive and active methods for harvesting rainwater
*Permaculture and agroecology methods to incorporate into your native garden
*How the soil system works and the importance of caring for your soil
*Real world applications of bio-swale rain water retention systems and other sustainable design concepts recently implemented into a landscape installation

*Ample free parking available in the park
*Select seeds and books will be available for purchase at the workshop as well as other educational materials for you to take home and enhance the day's knowledge
*An interactive public engagement display outside the museum
*Two demonstration native plant garden plots for viewing in the park near the workshop
*Admission to the exhibits at the Museum of Photographic Arts is complementary for workshop participants

TICKETS
*Early Bird Registration Online (through December 23) : $45
*General Registration Online: $50
*Door Tickets (if available): $50
*Student Tickets (with proof of ID at door)? $25

The venue is capped at 200 attendees, and we expect tickets to sell out, so buy quickly!

BUY TICKETS: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4452989

NOTES

-FREE PARKING is available in lots in Balboa Park with only a short walk to the event
-We do not offer REFUNDS but your registration can be TRANSFERRED to a person of your choice.

Sedge Fest 2019 Is Here!

They say there are few things more meditative and gratifying than weeding nut-sedge from a California Native Garden. I say, "Volunteers Needed!" I’m looking for 10 good people to join me for about 2 hours to whip our freshly planted California native garden into shape this weekend, rain or shine. OR: If you aren’t available on weekends, I can always use rogue weeders during the week. ANYTIME, really.

When: Saturday, 12/14, 9-11 am

Where: 4848 Eagle Rock Blvd (@ Addison)Be prepared for kneeling, dirty fingers and a deeply meditative experience.

RSVP for most desirable weeding spot and times now!

Friends of WYP! Join us for a Wild Yards Fundraiser and Presentation this Sunday. Hosted by the visionary minds at MaisonRe, the event will feature food, music, booths by local artisans and a presentation by yours truly. Bring the kids, enjoy the day, and support our mission to transform 40 Million Acres into Native Habitat wherever you live.

Free entry

Live music featuring Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas album

Local artisans’ open air market, portion of proceeds donated to Wild Yards Project

This is big, people. BIG! Come and get a rare, hands-on opportunity to learn from one of our most talented educators about the plants of our very own Mediterranean Chaparral and help create a model community garden in the same day. WYP, teamed up with cultural educator and native-plantsman, Nicholas Hummingbird, will be conducting a native plant workshop in the morning, and leading a massive planting project in the afternoon.

This would not be possible without your donations:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/WYP-neighborhood-garden

Part One: Lessons from A Master - A morning conversation with Nick about the plants intended for the new WYP Demonstration Garden at Eagle Rock Presbyterian Church in Eagle Rock Los Angeles. With over 20 different species of native plants on hand, Nick and WYP will offer insight into why working with native plants is the key to creating vital habitat for the tens of thousands of birds, bees butterflies and other species endemic to our ecosystems, while offering clear, simple tools to help you get started.
Part Two: A Community Habitat is Born - After a brief coffee/snack break, the WYP team, alongside Nick, will plant a 9000 square foot, native-plant demonstration garden, right along Eagle Rock Blvd. VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED. In exchange for helping create a stunning, habitat garden, you get firsthand knowledge about how to plant native plants, which plants are happy in which conditions, and how to water and maintain young plants over those key, first few years.

Kids Welcome, Parents Please Wrangle!

Dress for sun and dirt. Tools and gloves provided. BRING WATER

WHEN:
Saturday, November 9
Workshop: 10 am
Volunteer Planting: 11:30AM - 5PM

WHERE:
Eagle Rock Presbyterian Church
4848 Eagle Rock Blvd
(corner Addison)

RSVP: wildsyardsproject@gmail.com

Catch us at this year’s P-22 Day Festival! We’ll be on hand to talk native habitat at this event benefiting the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing over the 101 freeway.

It’s FREE and open to the public. You can pose with P-22, try a virtual reality wildlife crossing, view an urban wildlife garden installation, learn from experts on how to coexist with wildlife, listen to live music, and much more. There will be food. See you there!

Photo cred: Steve Winter/National Geographic

WYP’s David Newsom joins a panel discussion about what we are doing and what we need to do to protect urban wildlife and restore native habitat…and why it matters. This part four of the Green Lecture Series at the Silver Lake Library. Speakers also include Miguel Ordenana (Museum of Natural History) and Dr. Isaac Brown (UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, and LMU Center for Urban Resilience). Co-sponsored by the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Green Committee and the Silver Lake Library.

The event is free and open to the public. 

Angelenos- 

WYP project is proud to be a part of P-22 Day Festival 2018. Come on out to Griffith Park/Shane’s View, this Saturday, October 27, 11am-4pm.  Celebrate LA’s wildlife and all those who fight to protect it, sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation and dedicated to our very own local lion, “P-22”. Come visit our booth, listen to great music, and most of all, help keep LA wild and make it wilder.

WYP presents a unique opportunity to earn about attracting resident and migratory birds to your yard with two of Southern California’s most esteemed bird and plant authorities: Scott Logan, Owner & Educator Wild Wings Ecology and Lisa Novick, Director of Outreach Theodore Payne Foundation.

HOSTED BY:
David Newsom, WYP Founder and Chloe Renee Ziegler, WYP Co-Founder