The Ecology Center San Juan Capistrano is hosting a Eco Garden Design Workshop Saturday April 2 2016.
Learn the basics of implementing ecological design and establishing sustainable water, energy, soil, food and biodiversity systems for your home!
The Eco Garden Design Workshop is at 1:00pm.
The Ecology Center is located at 32701 Alipaz Street in San Juan Capistrano.
Our homes and gardens are the most immediate places from where we can start to build sustainability for ourselves, our family, our community and beyond.
With ecological design, we can save water and energy, reduce the pollution of our shared watersheds and natural resources, improve local biodiversity and natural habitat, and produce fresh organic food to regenerate our health and that of the environment.
Currently, our homes and gardens are some of the highest contributors to pollution, waste, drought and climate change.
In Southern California, most home landscapes are designed to continuously require great amounts of water, energy, chemical fertilizers and labor.
In return, homeowners get high bills, extra costs and no sustainable return on their investment. Ecological design can transform home landscapes to regenerate and sustain human, environmental and even social health.
Learn the basics of ecological garden design, installation and maintenance for your own home.
In this 4-hour workshop:
Learn the basics of ecological landscape design with considerations for saving water, energy and resources, while creating biodiversity and producing food sustainably
Explore the basics of sustainable water, energy, soil and plant systems through observing and interacting with real-life examples at The Ecology Center
Exercise with designing custom plans for your home eco-garden
Participate in hands-on activities including rain barrel and sprinkler to drip system installation, composting, and design exercises among others.
Each participant will create and take home a draft design, a plant list, a list of organizations to purchase tools and resources from to create an ecological garden, and 1-2 informational hand-outs to complement the subjects covered in the workshop.
