Home Composting & Urban Gardening Workshops - South LA Wetlands

LASAN Home Composting and Urban Gardening Workshops
The first half of each workshop will teach you how to turn kitchen scraps and yard trimmings into a nutrient-rich soil amendment. Home composting is taught by a team of ten rotating LA Sanitation & Environment green waste specialists. The second half of the workshop will focus on the monthly urban gardening topics as noted below. Each participant will receive a free garden plant to take home. Sometimes we have guest speakers and other giveaways.
Here are the upcoming Urban Gardening topics:
-January - Bare Root & Fruit Tree Pruning
-February - Soil Preparation & Getting your Garden Ready for Spring
-March - Spring Planting, Veggies & Flowers
-April - Herbs, Pollinators & Drought Tolerant Plants (California Friendly)
Items Available for Purchase
Compost bins ($20), Wing Digger aeration tools ($8), and worm bins ($20) are available to City of Los Angeles residents for purchase at these discounted rates, while supplies last. This location only accepts checks, and all sales are final. Proof of City of Los Angeles residency is required such as a recent utility bill or a valid state-issued ID with your current home address.
Free Mulch and Compost
Free bagged mulch and compost are available, while supplies last, for residential use. At Griffith Park and Lopez Canyon, we offer free compost and mulch in bulk; you may bring your own shovel and container to take as much as you need for your residential gardening project.
Please note that events may be cancelled in the event of severe inclement weather; if the workshop is cancelled we will notify you via email. We will also post cancellations to Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .
Visit our website or call our friendly 24-hour Customer Care Center at 1-800-773-2489 if you have any questions.
We look forward to meeting you!
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About our partners:
Steve List is a landscaper and teaches agriculture at Sylmar High School. He has been cultivating high school horticulturists at LAUSD and Sylmar Charter High School for the past 25 years. Since taking over the school’s 2-acre Agriculture Center, he and hundreds of students have launched a green revolution of flowers, fruits and vegetables across the northeast San Fernando Valley, many parts of Los Angeles and Southern California. At the same time, he has taught his students urban agriculture, nutrition, edible landscaping, and values. He and his students have designed, built and given away over five hundred raised-bed gardens for families without easy access fresh fruits and vegetables. To date, Steve and his horticulture students have secured homes for an estimated 100,000 trees, plants, and seedlings, ensuring that thousands of Angelenos benefit from healthy, fresh produce.