Land Resilience Partnership

We're very excited to be tabling at 's youth showcase! We'll have free pollinator seeds along side some fun tools for how to reimagine your lawn. Find out more at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-crews-green-valley-project-youth-showcase-tickets-1043052918357

Hummingbird Sage is a beautiful California native plant to seed in partial and shaded spots in the fall. Hummingbird Sage does best along the central coast, near wetlands and in slightly cooler climates. It has a tropical scent similar to pineapple.

As you might be able to tell from the name, Hummingbird Sage is an excellent attractor of pollinators such as hummingbirds, native bees, and butterflies. Did you know many native bees are smaller than a grain of rice? They rely on native flowers only. Some of them specialize in supporting our key food supplies such as sunflowers and various squashes.

All food crops benefit from the existence of pollinators, showing larger yields even if they are self pollinating crops! Thus pollinator plants like Hummingbird Sage supports healthy communities keep us strong and nourished for generations to come.

You can find Hummingbird Sage by visiting our friends 's plant sale supported by Sundays from 9-12pm on October 20th, 27th and Nov 2nd or by visiting 's fall plant sale October 29th - November 9th. You can also go to www.LandResiliencePartnership.org to make use of our free landscape design guides.

Here is a local LRP rain garden, designed and installed in Ojai, in Ventura County. Conventional lawns, traditionally from Scotland, allow rainwater to run off into the streets, collecting pollutants while making it's way into the ocean. When we plant rain gardens, we trap and retain water which reduces overall flooding and property damage. Rain gardens also filter water and improve regional water quality, recharging the aquifers that supply fresh water use to our communities.

Get your rain garden started this fall by visiting our friends 's plant sale supported by Sundays from 9-12pm on October 20th, 27th and Nov 2nd or by visiting 's fall plant sale October 29th - November 9th.

Sky Lupine & California Poppy are native to California and are often found close together in chaparral clearings as well as slopes along the coast and up in the Sierra foothills. California and tufted poppies support lupines by deterring pests like aphids while the lupines (in the legume family) fix nitrogen into the soil, nourishing their poppy buds. These fast friends both thrive in full sun and well-drained soil, making them brilliant companions with a lot of color in winter and spring.

Healthy communities make everyone feel included, celebrating variety among people as well as in plants and animal species. Resilient communities thrive when we prioritize our ecosystems, watersheds, and neighbors. By localizing our water and land resources, we boost food security, recharge groundwater supplies, reduce our carbon footprints, and protect ourselves and our neighbors from climate extremes. Healthier ecosystems contribute to thriving local economies.

Coyote Mint is a perennial herb native to California that forms a small bush of hairy mint-scented leaves. It is a climate-appropriate plant that grows in chaparral, coastal sage scrub, and various forest/woodland habitats. It likes medium draining soils, full sun to part shade and has low water requirements. It provides a good source of pollen and nectar for native bees and bumblebees. It is also a nectar source for hummingbirds and a variety of butterfly species such as the Monarch, Chalcedon Checkerspot, Ruddy Copper, Rural Skipper, Pale Swallowtail and Western Tiger Swallowtail. Used by the Indigenous peoples of California as a remedy for stomach upset, respiratory conditions, and sore throat. Leaves and flowers are steeped into a bitter mint tea.

Resilient meadows like the one restored at Twain Harte have so many beneficial qualities. Meadow plants clean our water by filtering sediment and other pollutants, providing clean water for wildlife, aquatic ecosystems, and our community. Mountain meadows help keep our air clean. They act like natural air purifiers by absorbing pollutants and storing carbon in rich, healthy soil and beautiful native plants.

Here are some beautiful photos of the transformation at Twain Harte Meadows Park where converted a muddy field into a brilliant meadow. Twain Harte and the Central Sierra rivers, plants, and wildlife depend on healthy meadows to provide food, habitat, abundant clean water, and refuge during and after fires. Meadows such as this one are sacred gathering places for the Me-Wuk and other tribes, as well as an important places for our community to connect, relax, and explore.

Resharing this front yard transformation from our partner Daily Acts:
"Who else loves a good before and after?! Or in this case, an after and a before!🌻

These are two of our residential yard transformations that we completed last year with help from Conservation Corps North Bay and with funding from the Land Resilience Partnership. Each of these yards was previously a water-thirsty lawn, which was sheet mulched to compost in place in preparation for planting. Swales were dug and planted to create rain gardens that capture rain water from downspouts, and native and drought-tolerant plants were installed in the landscapes.🌦️🌱🌿

It's only been about 6 months since these landscape makeovers took place, and we can't wait to see how they grow over time!😍"

If you want to learn more, or apply for this program, visit: https://dailyacts.org/lrp/

Hello Ojai Community,
Today we are at the Ojai Community Farmers Market (Thursday July 20th). We are here taking sign ups for the LRP program. Come visit, say hi, grab some local grub, enjoy some live music and get your questions answered. Hope to see you here!

Preventative care for forest health!