It’s Go Time!

We have great news to share with you! The license agreement with the city of Tustin has been fully executed and One Seed now has access to the garden site: 450 El Camino Real. Literally, we have the keys and cannot wait to get started!! Cue the confetti (as long as it’s biodegradable)!

More details to come regarding our Groundbreaking Event and upcoming volunteer opportunities. Thank you for your patience and encouragement throughout this process. We couldn't have done it without you!

Every day is Earth Day for all of us at One Seed and in commemoration of last week’s Earth Day, below are some gardening tips from our amazingly talented and very own landscape designer, Susan Anon:

Spring is a great time to plant herbs in between vegetables to add diversity, encourage beneficial insects, and provide companion plants for many of the summer vegetables. The Apiaceae Family, or Carrot Family, includes many familiar culinary herbs, medicinal plants, as well as climate-adapted California natives. These include parsley, dill, cilantro, angelica, rue, coriander, celery, lovage, anise, chervil, and more.

Among other qualities, this group of plants is characterized by their beautiful and delicate umbel-shaped flower clusters, their aromatics, and their ability to attract many pollinators. Swallowtain butterflies, for example, rely on members of this plant family as their host plants, where they will lay eggs and their larvae will feed. Bees and ladybugs enjoy the blooms of these herbs. However, these plants are generally grown in the cool-season so plant them now before the soil warms and let them flower before making space for the next seasons plantings.

To learn more about pollinator conservation, visit Xerces.org.

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