Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.

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Arlington Garden in Pasadena
275 Arlington Drive
Pasadena, CA 91105

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Arlington Garden is accessible via public transportation.

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october, 2024

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ARLINGTON GARDEN'S ROOTS AND REGENERATION presents

ARLINGTON GARDEN'S ROOTS AND REGENERATION presents ... a **free** tutorial on the rhizosphere with soil scientist Zahra Shiva!

Although invisible to the naked eye, there are billions of microbes in just a single teaspoon of soil! These microbes are crucial to life on Earth, yet most remain largely unstudied. Scientists refer to this hidden majority as "microbial dark matter." One of the most complex environments in which to study this dark matter is the rhizosphere.

Join us to learn about the rhizosphere, its fascinating organisms, and their ecosystem roles with Caltech PhD student Zahra Shivji. Zahra will give an overview of how scientists study the rhizosphere and demonstrate soil sampling techniques!

Zahra Shivji is a PhD student in the Karthikeyan Lab at Caltech. She enjoys community outreach and teaching others about the fascinating world of microbiology!

Link in bio to sign up for free!

#rhizosphere #arlingtongardenpasadena #lifenotlawn #regenerativegardening #habitatgardening #soil #soilscience #communityscience #scienceforthepeople #communitygarden #californianativeplants

As students go back to school, we’re thinking ab

As students go back to school, we’re thinking about oaks and how they form a key part of our ecosystems and habitat curriculum for student field trips at Arlington Garden!

Our oak woodland is one of the outdoor ‘classrooms’ where students have the opportunity to learn about native ecosystems, urban animals, and keystone species—like the coast live oak—which contribute to both the food and water cycles. We are lucky to have so many oaks in our garden!

Want to help nurture this learning?

Contribute to our six-week We Are An Oak Campaign raising funds so that students — and all who come to the garden — will be have a dedicated table to gather as they learn about our Arroyo habitats while paying tribute to one of the oaks that has served our ecosystem.

Link in our bio 🔗

#WeAreAnOak2024 #ArlingtonGardenPasadena #ArroyoSeco #PUSD #PasadenaSchools

Join our $20k "We are an Oak" Campaign! By joini

Join our $20k "We are an Oak" Campaign!

By joining campaign you will help fund the construction of a gathering space with a new 10+ foot wooden table. This massive table is being created from the beloved coast live oak we lost last year due to climate change. And it will provide a place for field trip discussions, tutorials, community meetings, and volunteer hangouts!

Scroll through the photos to see the dead tree being turned into a table top by our generous in-kind sponsor @angelcitylumber ! And click the link in our bio to learn more about the campaign! Arlington is not a municipal park, we are a free community-supported garden where the majority of our revenue comes from donors like you!

#weareanoak #arlingtongarden #arlingtongardeninpasadena #pasadena #pasadenagardens #communitygarden #lifenotlawn #habitatgarden #summerdrygarden #freegarden penultimate photo from @xebede

🌳Today we launch our "We Are An Oak" Campaign!🌳 To continue to grow, Arlington Garden needs a dedicated space for gathering, brainstorming, learning, and enjoying. We need a place for students to connect during field trips, a social spot for volunteers, a meeting space for our community, and a conference table for workshops and discussions.

We are fundraising for a new community gathering space to be built around a 10+ foot wooden table with a steel base. The table’s top is a long cut from the trunk of the coast live oak that once stood along Arlington Drive. This oak was massive, beautiful, and had seen over 100 long summers. In a sad sign of the times, it perished due to climate change – but the oak and its benefits are not lost. The oak’s heavy branches are now part of our pathway edging. And pieces of its massive trunk will become our new gathering table. Thank you to our in-kind sponsor @angelcitylumber for donating their labor and expertise!

Imagine our garden community as an oak. Our donors and other supporters, like the City of Pasadena and Vice Mayor Steve Madison, make up its mighty roots. Our volunteers and teachers and partners make up its trunk, branches, and leaves. Just as an oak manifests an entire ecosystem that otherwise exists only in potential, our community turns our mission into reality. And the fruits of their labor seed new communities and new climate change gardens.

Help us honor this community past and present and grow it for the future by giving to our "We are an Oak" Campaign! Link in bio for more information.

#arlingtongarden #lifenotlawn #habitatgarden #habitatgardening #pasadena #arlingtongardenpasadena #summerdrygarden #mediterraneangarden #coastliveoak #weareanoak #madeinpasadena #communitygarden #supportcommunity

**Next volunteer workshop on July 13th!** Learn r

**Next volunteer workshop on July 13th!**

Learn regenerative gardening by doing it yourself with our cohort of truly amazing and talented volunteers. On the second Saturday of every month from 9:00am to 12:00pm, join us for a Weekend Workshops volunteer project event. Participation is free and getting dirt-ish in a beautiful garden is priceless! Most events are project-based and many have an educational focus — learn how to garden regeneratively with native and mediterranean climate plants by planting, landscaping, and learning to identify desirable garden plants and (usually) undesirable weeds. If you’re looking to get outside, learn about our native ecosystems, battle weeds, get some exercise, or meet some new cool plant folks — sign up now at the link in our bio! 💚🌿

This month we’ll be playing in the water (aka watering), learning about irrigation in summer dry gardens, and caring for the chaparral area!

#communitygarden #gardening #regenerativegardening #pasadena #pasadenagardens #californianativeplants #pasadenavolunteering #lifenotlawn #mediterraneangardens #summerdrygardens #regenerative #losangelesgardens #pasadenabeautiful

Repost from @lynellgeorgewriter • Thank you @arl

Repost from @lynellgeorgewriter
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Thank you @arlingtonpasadena for hosting this meditative celebration of Octavia E. Butler in her hometown. @the_schessa wove together activities, art, stories, readings and opportunities for rest and reflection. They even shared their own recent work. Taken together, for a moment we were transported into a possibility. This what collaboration and community looks like. This is what it feels like to pause and take luxurious breaths and lean into one another’s story. @xebede. Such beauty! This garden is such a gift

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We Are an Oak! Arlington Garden Pasadena fundraising campaign

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