MOORPARK POINT PROJECT CONTINUES WITH HELP FROM UNITED TALENT AGENCY

Planting continues at the Moorpark Point Project site with help from United Talent Agency and Generation Water. Volunteers enthusiastically plant native plants and spread mulch to conserve water, protect the plants, mitigate erosion and nourish the soil. Many thanks to all for their hard work!
Special thanks to our generous sponsors for making this project possible!
Sponsors: United Talent Agency, Patagonia Pasadena, Rotary Club of Studio City/Sherman Oaks, Peet's Coffee & Tea (Studio City), The Charitable Foundation, Generation Water and many more generous souls from the community.

LA RIVER RESTORATION WITH TREEPEOPLE AND LA RIVER CORPS

Once again, our hard work has paid off with awesome results!!! Special thanks to our partners at TreePeople and L.A. Conservation Corps', River Corps staff and volunteers from the community, for their hard work and support. Many thanks to Councilmember Paul Krekorian and his staff for their support and the City of Los Angeles', Office of Community Beautification for supplying the tools for this and many other events!

As a result of this awesome display of community participation, we were able to perform substantial maintenance along a 1/2 mile stretch of the Village Gardeners' Valleyheart Riverwalk Greenway in Studio City and Sherman Oaks, CA.

OLEANDER LEAF SCORCH

Oleander leaf scorch continues to plague the LA River greenway in Studio City and Sherman Oaks, California. Working with LA County and Mountains, Recreation & Conservation Authority, The Village Gardeners continues to re-introduce native plant species in their place.

LA RIVER RESTORATION WITH KELLER WILLIAMS STUDIO CITY

Volunteers from Keller Williams Studio City team up with The Village Gardeners to give the Valleyheart Riverwalk Greenway  
some TLC. The volunteers enthusiastically cleared brush, swept the gutters along Valleyheart Drive and cleared the catch basins of debris along more than a mile of LA River greenway. What an awesome job they did!
Many thanks from The Village Gardeners for all their hard work!

DIXIE CYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - LA RIVER NATURE TOUR

Students from Kimberly Schwiesow's 4th grade class enjoy an LA River nature tour provided by the Village Gardeners. Students learn about the importance of native plants to the ecosystem, the source of water that supplies the LA River and more. Then, complete the tour with lunch at the Richard Lillard Outdoor Classroom before returning to school. 

GOOD FOOD DAY-LA, AT THE RICHARD LILLARD OUTDOOR CLASSROOM

Hundreds turn out in observance of the Mayor's, Good Food Day-LA. A collaboration of several area non-profits including, the Studio City Neighborhood Council, the Village Gardeners, N. Hollywood NE Neighborhood Council, Mid-Town No Ho Neighborhood Council, Turning Pages Foundation, Celerity Palmati Charter School, TreePeople, Backwards BeeKeepers, Girl Scouts, Million Trees LA, LA Conservation Corps, FormLA Landscaping, LA Urban Chicken Enthusiasts and more.


Approximately, 150 fruit trees were adopted by LA residents at the event through the City of LA's, Million Trees LA initiative. The event had the feel of a county fair and was fun for all ages.


Many thanks to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City of LA for sponsoring this exciting event and to everyone that helped make this event possible!

MOORPARK POINT PROJECT

This LA River Restoration project was made possible through the generosity of The Rotary Club of Studio City & Sherman Oaks, Peet's Coffee & Tea, The Charitable Foundation, Home Depot, Davey Tree and many more from the community. 
Many thanks from the Village Gardeners to all the contributors for their generosity and to the volunteers for their hard work! Special thanks to the non-profit org Philanthro for their help in implementing this project.

THANK YOU DAVEY TREE!

Special thanks to Davey Tree Company for helping us with site preparation by removing dead trees and pruning existing to make way for more native plants!


We love you guys!!!

LA RIVER RESTORATION WITH BAXTER BIOSCIENCE

Enthusiastic volunteers from Baxter BioScience show some love to The Village Gardeners' native plant garden at the Richard Lillard Outdoor Classroom in Studio City. The volunteers spent the day removing invasive, non-native plant species from along the trail next to the river where the California Golden Poppies have grown for several years. The volunteers also planted some native plants.
This first event of the season paid off with awesome results! Many thanks from The Village Gardeners for your generous giving of your precious time!

NORTH VALLEYHEART RIVERWALK PROJECT

It’s official!

The North Valleyheart Riverwalk (Greenway) project is now a Los Angeles County project!

Not only is the county committed to implement the project, The Village Gardeners’ proposal for a beautiful and accessible native plant filled greenway, along the Los Angeles River, is their entry in the California River Parkways,  Proposition 84 grant competition.

Our project has been moved to the head of the line of LA County’s, LA River projects!


Special thanks to LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, his staff and LA County's Dept of Public Works for their generous support and hard work!

See North Valleyheart Riverwalk project plans here.