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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 ~


What's Up at Throop Learning Garden?

6/1/2017

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Throop Learning Garden enjoyed a “super bloom” of wildflowers this spring,
thanks to an abundance of winter rain. Our orchard also responded to the rains
by producing an abundance of fruit. Our apricots, blackberries, and blueberries
have all been harvested and enjoyed. Plum, apples, persimmons, pomegranates,
and figs are still to come.

We have several upcoming projects of interest:
  1. Join us for a hands-on workshop that will build a cold stack compost.
    Date: Saturday June 10 from 10am-noon
    Transition Pasadena & Throop Learning Garden host a Compost Workshop, featuring garden guru George Patton.
    Donation: $10
    Space is limited so RSVP to throoplearninggarden@gmail.com

  2. We are refurbishing the raised bed gardens. We will replace the cement blocks, which hold heat, with redwood planks. Stay tuned for construction workshop date.

  3. We are revamping our shade structure over the raised bed veggie garden. This will allow us to continue growing more heat sensitive plants, like cucumbers, into the heat of summer.

  4. Plus, we continue to plant our summer crops in the hugel garden. So far we have planted okra, squashes, and flowers. Still to come: Tomatoes, corn, & beans.

Please join our gardening community any Sunday between 8:30 and 11:00am. Enjoy the oasis of habitat. Watch birds and butterflies frolic in the flowers. Get your hands dirty. Feel the sun on your face. Go home with fresh seasonal produce and flowers. Reconnect with soil, flora, fauna, and a spirited group of humans.

— January Nordman

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