G3 Green Gardens Group

Cutting curbs in regular neighborhoods is all well and good in theory, but the day of judgement comes when it finally rains!  If everyone on this street cut their curbs and allowed dry weather runoff and stormwater into their parkway to water trees and other native plants, that dirty water would never reach the ocean.  [...]

A diverse group of Venturans representing several organizations (including: Leadership Ventura, Downtown Ventura, Ventura Water, Public Works Dept., Parks & Recreation Dept., Environmental Sustainability Division, Ventura Surfrider’s Ocean Friendly Gardens Committee), were led by G3′s Kate Riley in a day-long retrofit of the Farmers’ Market Parking Lot at the corner of Palm & Santa Clara.  This [...]

G3 Core Concepts graduate, John Burke (aka LAJohnny – LA stands for Landscape Architect, not Los Angeles), wrote a great article for the Ventura Breeze on the curb cutting event held at Dan Long’s house in Ventura.  The article is a really good synopsis of the importance of Rain Gardens and Curb Cuts as things [...]

Jill Sarick from the City of Ventura Public Works and Water Depts. helped Dan Long slice through City red tape to cut his curb and allow stormwater from the street to run through a new mulched and vegetated swale in his parkway. G3 Associates, Tom Rau and Kate Riley, worked with Jill and G3′s Pamela [...]

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 [...]