The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Gardens

︎ Location San Marino, CA
︎ Timespan 2014–2016
︎ Client Businesses & Institutions

Situation

• Seeking programming for experimental acreage dedicated to climate-adaptive strategies.
  

Response 1
Designed, wrote and facilitated an Urban Agroecology Intensive:

• Led month-long intensive and other workshops over the course of three years;
  
• Educated participants on principles and practices of ecosystem-based gardening that are further explored with many hands-on half-day workshops.

Led supplementary Skill Building Workshops including:

• Pruning Fundamentals
• Propagation Techniques
• Soil Biology
• Advanced Composting Techniques
• Compost Teas and Extracts
• Wild Plant I.D.
• Community Bioremediation

Response 2

• Facilitated a multi-day Deep Mapping intensive including place-based reading and discussion, and guided on-site, group socio-ecological mapping.