The Lompoc Museum has announced the receipt of a $4,900 mini-grant from the Santa Barbara Foundation in collaboration with the Hutton Foundation to develop a detailed landscape design for an outdoor educational garden.
The garden will aim to provide an easily accessible “living
exhibit” space to educate the surrounding community about the area’s rich history of plant use.
The planned garden will consist of three distinct areas: the pre-contact use of indigenous plants by the Chumash; Lompoc’s early 20th century establishment as the flower seed capital of the world; and the present day adoption of environmentally sustainable xeriscape garden design.
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2010.
