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Throop Learning Garden

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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 ~


Spring explodes at Throop Learning Garden!

3/10/2014

 
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A pair of ravens graced us by taking up residence in the church belfry in mid-February. They scoped out our little corner habitat, then proceeded to roust the pigeons from the belfry. Feathers flew, and so did the pigeons. Next came a 3-week period of nest building. Half the twigs in Pasadena must have been brought in, examined, then thrown, rejected, to litter the church steps. Finally, their edifice complete, they set about the business of home and family.
Rev. Tera spied 4 blue-green eggs in the nest in early March. Our garden web of life expands beautifully.

You can see the nest from the church steps on Del Mar. Look up to the right-hand side of the belfry. The nest is visible in the uppermost niche.  Please view them from afar only.

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Our other big garden news is the arrival and planting of fruit trees. TreePeople granted us the following trees:
  • 2 apples
  • 2 tangerines
  • 2 Eureka lemons
  • 1 Meyer lemon
  • 1 fig
  • 1 pomegranate

Thanks to Steve at TreePeople, and Therese, Judith, Mimi, and all the volunteers who are working on planting the trees!

— January Nordman


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