The Harvest Garden
offers visitors the opportunity to learn about the critical
relationships between plants, insects, and animals essential
to the pollination of our food, flower, and herb plants; pest management;
and a healthy environment. About one-third of our food supply depends
upon an abundance of pollinators in our ecosystem.
The integration of wildlife, food growing, herbs, and native plants in
the Harvest Garden mimic habitat in the wild - habitat which has been lost
or severely disrupted by population growth, pesticides, and pollution.
The
Wildlife Habitat Garden
provides pollinators (native bees, butterflies, wasps, beetles, flies,
and birds) with over 200 habitat plants--73% of which are
native to California. We installed bee boxes, birdhouses, birdbaths, and even a toad house, throughout the Garden to encourage wildlife to
nest, feed, and reproduce.
