Transition Pasadena
  • Home
  • Our Projects
  • News
  • Get Involved!
  • Calendar of Events

Throop Learning Garden

Picture

Throop Memorial Church  •  300 South Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena

Throop Learning Garden is an example of how we can transform our environment through community. We worked together to found a garden based on permaculture principles. We began with Bermuda grass and hardpan clay. We now enjoy a garden that includes a raised bed food garden, a fruit tree food forest, a drought tolerant native garden, demonstrations of water harvesting techniques, soil building, uses for “urbanite” and other recyclables, and comfortable places to congregate. We also host a wealth of birds and beneficial insects, including praying mantises, many moths, and butterflies.
Garden work days are most Sunday mornings from 8:30 to 10:30.

~ 2013 Pasadena Green City Award for Urban Nature ~


Notes from the Garden

6/8/2013

 
Picture
Throop Learning Garden has exploded with an infestation of roly-polies! You know the critters: small, dark grey, trilobite looking crustaceans with many legs: pillbugs or armadillidae, have a voracious appetite. They consume many times their body weight in detritus and greens. They are capable of making lace from the most robust cucumber or lettuce leaves. Usually they are most welcome detritus removers, munching on fallen leaves. They are kept in check by predators like birds, beetles, and skunks. But when they have a population surge – watch out!

When it comes to garden pests, I am torn between a live-and-let-live stance and saving my harvest. When the environment cannot be balanced, eradication often means killing the pests. Therein lies the paradox of all gardens.

Balance is fleeting, as nature is never static. Harmony lies in an endless round of eating and being eaten – killing at its most primal. The reality is that all creatures kill to live: earthworms eat bacteria, aphids eat leaves, ants farm aphids, spiders eat ants, and so on up the food chain to us.


Read More

    Garden Co-Managers

    January Nordman
    Michael Kelley

    History

    Beginnings
    Creating the Vision
    Transitioning a Lawn
    Dedication Ceremony
    National Day of Service 2013

    Photo Gallery

    Picture

    Previous Posts

    June 2017
    September 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    June 2015
    March 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    March 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012

•  Home
•  Latest News  /  Event Photos
•  Throop Learning Garden  /  History  /  Garden Photos
•  Repair Café Pasadena  /  Photo Gallery
•  Get Involved  /  Contact Us

Creative Commons License
Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Picture
Site design: Qrys Cunningham
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
Photos from Jinx!, [email protected]