Post Fire Series: Seed Balls and Creature Sculptures for Bioremediation

Make a sculpture for a friend, and for yourself, to plant and help contribute towards local soil health, garden by garden. We'll be creating seedy mini-sculptures inspired by our native ecology (soil microbes, insects, seeds, pollinators and plants) at this creative hands-on activity, part of Arlington Garden’s Post Fire series. This is the second of four workshops in the series this Winter/Spring developed in collaboration with soil scientist Lynn Fang of SoilWise.  When your sculptures sprout, they’ll grow into plants that help sequester and take up heavy metals from the soil. CA native seeds we will use will include Saltbush (Atriplex lentiformis), CA Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) and Bush Sunflower (Encelia californica)!  Each plantable sculpture will be packed with compost produced at Arlington Garden, clay donated by Pot LA, and native seeds for bioremediation provided by Nina Raj of Altadena Seed Library. Space is limited due to materials. Please register on Eventbrite to secure a spot!  This is a creative follow up to the Soil Testing and Bioremediation talk in February. Listen to the February Soil Testing and Bioremediation talk with James Oliver (Center for Applied Ecological Remediation) and Lynn Fang (Soilwise) here.