At the lunch hour today on the grounds of the Robert Frost Auditorium, Cathy Vargas, the city’s Environmental Coordinator, was present not only for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Culver City High School’s creative Ocean Friendly Garden but to inspect the garden for her own satisfaction.
Ms. Vargas not only liked what she inspected, she reminded visitors that, in honor of Earth Month and out of respect for the statewide drought, City Hall is hosting a landscaping workshop this evening from 6 to 9 in the Dan Patacchia Room at City Hall.
As her eyes swept across the Ocean Friendly Garden, Ms. Vargas said that “the workshop will show residents how they can do this type of thing at their own home.”
She said that participants will learn that forming an environmentally friendly, drought conscious plot on their property is “a project that is not necessarily hard. Anybody can do it. Doing this will take energy, an effort, kind of rallying around the idea of saving water.”
Ms. Vargas said that if a homeowner “is tired of mowing the grass and wants to figure a way out of it, the workshop will try to answer those kinds of questions.”
Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells and new West Basin Municipal Water District Director Scott Houston will talk about designing what the city calls “a California-friendly garden using the latest sustainable materials and techniques.”
The three-hour course will cover use of native plants and edibles, water-efficient irrigation devices, rainwater capture and permeable materials, and on-site water retention to reduce water and pollution to the ocean.
For information, contact sbesc.com
