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Now available through Laguna Wilderness Press, the “Alani & the Giant Kelp Elf” book by Gayle and Tom Joliet is the story of Kelfie and his Kelp Elf. Their undersea home, the giant kelp forest…

This year the South Laguna Community Garden Park will celebrate in a modified form the Garden Park’s success at bringing the Laguna Beach community together while producing beauty and promoting healthy living.  Instead of a…

By Ann Christoph Watching Ken Burns’ history of national parks like Yosemite and Yellowstone made me realize that even though their value is so obvious to us today, their value was not obvious to politicians…

By Tom Osborne Then-Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger championed passage in 2006 of AB 32, the nation’s first statewide law to put a price on carbon to address climate change. As a result, the City of…

By FAITH E. PINHO, LILLY NGUYEN, LA Times/Daily Pilot Usually, 6-year-old Matthew Perez, who is autistic, isolates himself during family activities. But when his parents took his older siblings outside to their Costa Mesa backyard…

The plants are here to cheer us up. Blooming their peduncles out! It’s as though they’re saying, “we know what you’re going through—we’ve been through it ourselves.”

Ten years ago, the corner of Eagle Rock Way and South Coast Highway was a blight – unkempt and unused.
On Saturday, it was the joyous setting for a garden party – in spades.

By LILLY NGUYEN, DAILY PILOT, SEP. 27, 2019 Read article

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By Ann Christoph

Tree of Life’s catalogue pokes fun at its founder’s surfing pastime with “toes on the noes on the Ortega,” highway that is.
Tree of Life’s catalogue pokes fun at its founder’s surfing pastime with “toes on the noes on the Ortega,” highway that is.
Who says Southern California is too urbanized for agriculture? Or that these cultures can’t mix? Mike Evans and Jeff Bohn, of Manhattan Beach and the Back Bay, have been farming native California plants east of San Juan Capistrano since 1979.

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Our most important SoLag Community Garden founder is gone. Morrie Granger died suddenly on Monday, April 9. Everywhere you look at the garden there is something that Morrie did, but the most important of all…

Original article published on Stu News   Barbara’s Column Ruben Flores encourages Lagunans to go native   By BARBARA DIAMOND Beautification Council President Ruben Flores has gone native—and he would love it if all of Laguna’s gardeners…

I’ve had several people ask me what to plant this time of year, so here’s a list: Lettuce Kale* Bok Choy* Sugar Snap Peas (or sweet peas for flowers) Turnips Broccoli* Caulifower* Cabbage* Brussels Sprouts*…

Times Community News / Coastline Pilot / Life & Arts  By Bryce Alderton •  Contact Reporter FEBRUARY 4, 2016, 12:56 PM Gilbert Briseño has made a living by landscaping yards throughout Southern California, but on…

Do you have too much kale? Is your lettuce growing like crazy? We are seeking vegetable donations and are looking for volunteers to help with the harvesting of produce for the Friendship Shelter. Carly runs the…

Have you seen the South Laguna Garden Elf? Thank you to Tom and Gayle Joliet who worked so hard to bring the Elf to life! The South Laguna Community Garden Park is asking for imaginative…

Since 2009 the use of the Garden Park property has been graciously donated by the property owner. A fund has been established to make it possible to purchase a permanent Garden Park and we hope that…