Join G3′s Pamela Berstler tomorrow, as we cook up some Soil Lasagna, a.k.a. Sheet Mulching to effectively replace the warm season (kikuyu) lawn at the Lawn Bowls in Santa Barbara. Read more HERE: Independent Santa Barbara OFG Sheet Mulching Article This is a delicate meal that will require many cooks in the kitchen; but the [...]
Santa Barbara Soil Lasagna Made Hot And Fresh
Posted on 21. Sep, 2012 by pamela in G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Education, G3 In The News, G3 Media, G3 Partners, HOWs, Living Soil, Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara Lawn Bowls, Surfrider Foundation, Surfrider's Ocean Friendly Gardens, Watershed Friendly Gardens, Watershed Notes, Watershed Wise Landscape
NEW VENUE Ventura Core Concepts Workshop
Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 by pamela in City of Ventura, G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Education, Los Angeles/South Bay, Professional, Santa Barbara County, Surfrider Foundation, Ventura County, Watershed Wise Landscape
We have a new venue for the Core Concepts Workshop in Ventura on April 24, 2012: City of Ventura Public Works Maintenance Yard 336 Sanjon RoadVentura, CA 93001 This one-day seminar and quiz is THE PREREQUISITE FOR ALL G3 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS. Can you explain clearly exactly how much water a landscape requires? Are [...]
Jeremy Irons Out Plastic Bag Migration
Posted on 12. Mar, 2012 by pamela in East Coast, Environment 911, G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Media, G3 Partners, Los Angeles/South Bay, Nature Lessons, Orange County, San Diego County, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Barbara County, Surfrider Foundation, Ventura County, Video, Water Conservation, Watershed Notes
The Ocean Friendly Gardens Program is a complimentary program to Surfrider Foundation’s Rise Above Plastics Campaign. But lots of great activity is happening about single-use plastics awareness. Check out this Heal The Bay video about the migration of the Plastic Bag from grocery store to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch hilariously narrated by Jeremy Irons.
Up, Up And Away – SoCal Water
Posted on 18. Nov, 2011 by pamela in Environment 911, G3 Blog, G3 Community, Green Infrastructure, Los Angeles/South Bay, Nature Lessons, Orange County, San Diego County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Water Conservation, Watershed Notes
This post is all about heavy lifting. First, we’ve linked to this discussion about the Edmonston Pumping Plant that lifts the water up over the Tehachapis mountains for our benefit here in SoCal. We SoCal inhabitants must import more than 50% of our water from upstate or out of state, spending hundreds of millions and a [...]
G3 Bowled Over By Santa Barbara Hands On Workshop (HOW) Participants
Posted on 13. Sep, 2011 by pamela in G3 Associates, G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Design Studio, G3 Education, G3 Partners, Green Infrastructure, Homeowner, HOWs, Professional, Rain Gardens, Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara Lawn Bowls, Surfrider Foundation, Surfrider's Ocean Friendly Gardens, Watershed Friendly Gardens, Watershed Notes
The scene was an overcast Sunday morning, with forty people (homeowners, agency representatives, landscape professionals) participating in the second event in the California Coastal Commission’s Whale Tail Grant-funded Santa Barbara Ocean Friendly Gardens Program, co-sponsored by Surfrider Foundation, The City of Santa Barbara, Goleta Water District, The County of Santa Barbara, and CA Coastal Commission. This [...]
