Weekend Workshops at Arlington Garden

Weekend Workshops is the weekend program at Arlington Garden. Workshops include volunteer projects, speaker or panel events, and small tutorials focused on topics related to our mission, regenerative gardening, and the cultural heritage of gardening.

Volunteer Projects: Volunteers work on longer-term garden projects while learning regenerative gardening and climate-appropriate landscaping.

Roots and Regeneration: Our free or low-cost guest-speaker series focused on land stewardship, urban ecology, and native ecosystems.

Tours and Tutorials: Outdoor classes and events devoted to special topics.

No prior experience is necessary for volunteer projects, but space is limited, and you are strongly encouraged to sign up for free in advance. Please bring water (there is a water bottle refill station but no drinking fountain), weather appropriate clothing, sunscreen, and gloves.

Here is the schedule of weekend workshops for 2024 (schedule is subject to change):

Volunteer Projects:

• January 13
• February 10
• March 9
• April 13
• May 11
• June 8
• July 13
• August 10 cancelled
• September 14
• October 12
• November 9 - Narrow leaf milkweed planting
• December 14

On November 9, we'll be planting 100 narrow leaf milkweed seedlings donated by Santa Monica Mountains Fund (SAMO). Narrow leaf milkweed is an extremely important host plant for monarch butterflies and attracts a plethora of other beautiful insects.

Past Volunteer Projects from 2024 include an LA Compost facilitated compost workday, feeding and pruning the orange trees, cover cropping the orange grove, and planting native plants in the "St. Francis" garden.

Tours and Tutorials:

• TBD

Roots and Regeneration:

• January 20 - Living Without Nature w/ Rishi Kumar (free)
• September 28 - Read the Rhizosphere w/ Zahra Shivji (free)

*To order more than two tickets, please place multiple orders using a separate email address for each volunteer. Due to the nature of the volunteer projects activities, all volunteers under 14 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. All ages are welcome with a chaperone.

Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all. We use only regenerative gardening techniques, which means that we harness natural processes to care for the garden. Weekend Workshop participants will acquire knowledge and skills related to regenerative gardening and learn about the natural world!

Host or Publisher Arlington Garden in Pasadena