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 bundance 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, and birdbaths throughout the Garden to encourage wildlife to nest,
feed, and reproduce.
For a list of habitat plants and their blooming season, click here.