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Address: Starr King Open Space. Closest address to the plot is 1261 Carolina St, San Francisco, CA 94107

The Starr King plots are located in the “annex” space. Look for the green painted sign that says “This is a land care project.” Things you will get to learn and practice:
—identify native and introduced species
—weeding through the “bradley method”
—adding to the community science project iNaturalist
—regenerative and reciprocal landcare methods such propagating and planting from the extant plant community
—urban coyote sightings if you’re lucky!

The Starr King Test Plot sits on a serpentinite hilltop in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.  This site is part of an intermittent strip of serpentinite bedrock that stretches across the city to the northwest and ends in the Presidio. Starr King, a little patch of neighborhood open space, and meadows in the Presidio, are the only extant serpentine grasslands in the city.

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Address: 3301 Workman Mill Rd, South El Monte, CA 91733

Community Workday! Help us weed, water, and maintain our native plant plots.

Partners: The event is made possible by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation in collaboration with Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (First District), the Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity, Southern California Edison, Puente Hills Youth@Work Cohort, Studio-MLA, and Test Plot.

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Address: Elysian Park Trail Entrance, closest address is 2221 Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90026

The plots are located around the Marian Harlow Memorial Grove. Park along Park Dr. and walk north along the Elysian Park trail for 3-5 mins. The plots are spread out around multiple hillsides.

RSVP HERE with LA Works

Address: Rio de Los Angeles State Park, 1900 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065

Join our bi-weekly community workdays to care for our various Test Plot projects at Rio. We meet every other Sunday and will be weeding, watering, and trimming our various habitat plots. Meet at the flagpole.

RSVP HERE with LAWORKS

Address: Los Angeles Center River and Gardens, 570 W Ave 26, Los Angeles, CA 90065

Enter the LA River Center & Gardens off of Ave 26. Park in the main lot. When facing the main building, walk to the right 300’ and around the corner.

Join us for a day of weeding, watering, and mulching to give our young plants the best start possible. Each plant here carries a rich ethnobotanical heritage—stories of food, medicine, and culture—so your hands-on care is also a way of honoring their history.  This project is a collaboration between Test Plot, Mujeres de la Tierra, LA Works, and MRCA. For more information, contact: vanessa.alonzo@mrca.ca.gov

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER HERE

Join us for community workdays the second Saturday of each month.

Partners: Test Plot, USC, Community Nature Connection, the Mt. Washington Alliance, CD1, and the Council for Watershed Health. Our work is funded by the Safe Clean Water Program, The Water Foundation, The Rose Foundation and Los Angeles Water Keepers.

RSVP COMING SOON

Address: Closest address is 310 W Ave 45, Los Angeles, CA 90065

The pedestrian entrance to Rainbow Canyon is off Ave 45. It is easily accessible from the "Southwest Museum" Metro A Line Stop. The plots are distributed along different areas of the lower canyon. 

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Address: 3200 Flanagan Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93063

Join Isaac Trejo for a guided plant walk around the new test plot, help out with watering our new plants, weeding and fixing fences. For background on the site and project, check out his LOG POST “Getting Started”

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Address: 3301 Workman Mill Rd, South El Monte, CA 91733

Community Workday! Help us weed, water, and maintain our native plant plots.

Partners: The event is made possible by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation in collaboration with Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (First District), the Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity, Southern California Edison, Puente Hills Youth@Work Cohort, Studio-MLA, and Test Plot.

RSVP HERE and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER

Address: Elysian Park Trail, Elysian Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90012. 

Join Terremoto for a community workday at our Burn Plot in Elysian Park. Park at the small lot at the Elysian Park Trailhead, cross the street and head northeast on the Elysian Park Trail for 500’. The Burn Scar Test Plot will be on the left.

RSVP HERE with AUDUBON CENTER

Address: Audubon Center at Debs Park, 4700 Griffin Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90031

From the Audubon Center walk to the parking lot entrance and up to the right along a dirt trail (look to the right of the wider Walnut Forest Trail). The plot is 200’ up the path.

Please join us for native habitat gardening with Test Plot, Terremoto and the Audubon Center at Debs. We meet the first Friday of the month 8:30-10:30am.

Landcare Day at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island!

Come join us for a spring time landcare session at the beautiful, remote Test Plot at the Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island. Free transportation and lunch provided by Test Plot! Depart on USC's Miss Christi's from San Pedro at 8AM and return by 5PM (~90 minute boat ride). We will be prepping the plot for annual brush clearance (mostly hand weeding, but also irrigation repair and weed whipping). It is one of the most perfect times to be on Catalina Island!

Approximate schedule:
8-9:30 Boat to Island
9:30-10AM Orientation
10-12PM Work-session
12-1PM Lunch Break
1-2PM Work-session
2-3:15PM Free time to Hike & Swim
3:30PM Depart to San Pedro

Test Plot designer Andre Grospe will be leading this group. EVENT IS NOW FULL with a waitlist. Andre will contact you if you made it. Thanks for the Catalina love.

RSVP HERE with LA Works

Address: Rio de Los Angeles State Park, 1900 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065

Join our bi-weekly community workdays to care for our various Test Plot projects at Rio. We meet every other Sunday and will be weeding, watering, and trimming our various habitat plots. Meet at the flagpole.

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER

Community Workday! Help us weed, water, and put in some new plants. If you have gloves, a small trowel or shovel, and weeding tools please bring! If not, we will have some available.

Closest address: The Lawrence Hall of Science, 1 Centennial Dr, Berkeley, CA 94720. 

Enter the main entrance to Lawrence Hall of Science. Walk past the planetarium and back outside to the “Dinosaur lookout.” The plot is located near the picnic tables and open during main visiting hours. 

Partners: Test Plot, Lawrence Hall of Science, Terremoto, mak-’amham, 'ottoy initiative

RSVP HERE with LAWORKS

Address: Los Angeles Center River and Gardens, 570 W Ave 26, Los Angeles, CA 90065

Enter the LA River Center & Gardens off of Ave 26. Park in the main lot. When facing the main building, walk to the right 300’ and around the corner.

Join us for a day of weeding, watering, and mulching to give our young plants the best start possible. Each plant here carries a rich ethnobotanical heritage—stories of food, medicine, and culture—so your hands-on care is also a way of honoring their history.  This project is a collaboration between Test Plot, Mujeres de la Tierra, LA Works, and MRCA. For more information, contact: vanessa.alonzo@mrca.ca.gov

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTER WAIVER

Address: Elysian Park Trail Entrance, closest address is 2221 Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90026

The plots are located around the Marian Harlow Memorial Grove. Park along Park Dr. and walk north along the Elysian Park trail for 3-5 mins. The plots are spread out around multiple hillsides.

RSVP HERE with LA Works

Address: Rio de Los Angeles State Park, 1900 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065

Join our bi-weekly community workdays to care for our various Test Plot projects at Rio. We meet every other Sunday and will be weeding, watering, and trimming our various habitat plots. Meet at the flagpole.

RSVP AND SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER HERE

Address: 2000 N Fuller Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046, near Hollywood Boulevard. The plot is up the trail on the left near the ruins.

Please note: The streets east of Runyon surrounding Ovation Hollywood will be closed starting at 12:01am on Sunday for the Academy Awards. 

Friends of Runyon Canyon, we'd like to welcome you to a community planting day to kickoff the Runyon Canyon Test Plot. The Test Plot is one of many community landcare projects across LA and the Bay Area where neighbors gather together to invest in the ongoing care of public parks. After this kickoff we will be hosting monthly workdays to get to know the land, remove aggressive non-native species and begin to increase the habitat value and beauty at this trailhead. Everyone is welcome, no experience necessary. 

PARTNERS: Friends of Runyon Canyon, Test Plot, LA Recreation and Parks

PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME! 4:30-7pm Due to the excessive heat warning we've decided to push our community planting day back a few hours to 4:30-7pm on Saturday March 14th (formerly 2-5pm). We understand that some of you may no longer be able to attend and we apologize for the last minute time change. We want to prioritize the comfort and safety of our community. Hope to see you out there. There will be California native plants, good vibes and pupusas! It will still be warm so please bring a hat and water. Hope to see you. 

Moving forward, there are many ways to stay involved. We'll be sending out information soon about weekly watering to help our garden get established. 

Best, Jefferson Test Plot team 

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Join us for a community planting day. We will be planting California native plants at the former Jefferson drill site.

Address: 1371 W. Jefferson Boulevard

Partners: Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust, Redeemer Community Partnership, Test Plot Youth Fellows from Greenhouse South LA. Special thanks to Theodore Payne Foundation!

Funders: EJ Ready, Liberty Hill Foundation

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Address: Starr King Open Space. Closest address to the plot is 1261 Carolina St, San Francisco, CA 94107

The Starr King plots are located in the “annex” space. Look for the green painted sign that says “This is a land care project.” Things you will get to learn and practice:
—identify native and introduced species
—weeding through the “bradley method”
—adding to the community science project iNaturalist
—regenerative and reciprocal landcare methods such propagating and planting from the extant plant community
—urban coyote sightings if you’re lucky!

The Starr King Test Plot sits on a serpentinite hilltop in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.  This site is part of an intermittent strip of serpentinite bedrock that stretches across the city to the northwest and ends in the Presidio. Starr King, a little patch of neighborhood open space, and meadows in the Presidio, are the only extant serpentine grasslands in the city.

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER

Join us for community workdays the second Saturday of each month.

Address: Closest address is 310 W Ave 45, Los Angeles, CA 90065

The pedestrian entrance to Rainbow Canyon is off Ave 45. It is easily accessible from the "Southwest Museum" Metro A Line Stop. The plots are distributed along different areas of the lower canyon. 

Partners: Test Plot, USC, Community Nature Connection, the Mt. Washington Alliance, CD1, and the Council for Watershed Health. Our work is funded by the Safe Clean Water Program, The Water Foundation, The Rose Foundation and Los Angeles Water Keepers.

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER

Address: Elysian Park Trail, Elysian Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90012. 

Join Terremoto for a community workday at our Burn Plot in Elysian Park. Park at the small lot at the Elysian Park Trailhead, cross the street and head northeast on the Elysian Park Trail for 500’. The Burn Scar Test Plot will be on the left.

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER

Address: 3200 Flanagan Drive, Simi Valley, CA 93063

Come help Isaac start a new Test Plot in the foothills between Rocky Peak and Chumash Park.

RSVP HERE with AUDUBON CENTER

Address: Audubon Center at Debs Park, 4700 Griffin Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90031

From the Audubon Center walk to the parking lot entrance and up to the right along a dirt trail (look to the right of the wider Walnut Forest Trail). The plot is 200’ up the path.

Please join us for native habitat gardening with Test Plot, Terremoto and the Audubon Center at Debs. We meet the first Friday of the month 8:30-10:30am.

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER HERE

Join us for our next volunteer day! We will be checking out all the new growth now that the plants have soaked in much needed water. We will also be weeding out black mustard Brassica nigra, horehound Marrubium vulgare, and castor bean Ricinus communis before they take over.

Bring your basic garden tools like weeding tools, pruners, and gloves.

Address: 5009 Lathrop St, Los Angeles, CA 90032

Lathrop St. is a dead end street with ample street parking. Walk up the dirt path 20’ and the plot is directly in front of you.

RSVP HERE with LA Works

Address: Rio de Los Angeles State Park, 1900 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065

Join our bi-weekly community workdays to care for our various Test Plot projects at Rio. We meet every other Sunday and will be weeding, watering, and trimming our various habitat plots. Meet at the flagpole.

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER

Community Workday! Help us weed, water, and put in some new plants. If you have gloves, a small trowel or shovel, and weeding tools please bring! If not, we will have some available.

Closest address: The Lawrence Hall of Science, 1 Centennial Dr, Berkeley, CA 94720. 

Enter the main entrance to Lawrence Hall of Science. Walk past the planetarium and back outside to the “Dinosaur lookout.” The plot is located near the picnic tables and open during main visiting hours. 

Partners: Test Plot, Lawrence Hall of Science, Terremoto, mak-’amham, 'ottoy initiative

RSVP HERE with LAWORKS

Address: Los Angeles Center River and Gardens, 570 W Ave 26, Los Angeles, CA 90065

Enter the LA River Center & Gardens off of Ave 26. Park in the main lot. When facing the main building, walk to the right 300’ and around the corner.

Join us for a day of weeding, watering, and mulching to give our young plants the best start possible. Each plant here carries a rich ethnobotanical heritage—stories of food, medicine, and culture—so your hands-on care is also a way of honoring their history.  This project is a collaboration between Test Plot, Mujeres de la Tierra, LA Works, and MRCA. For more information, contact: vanessa.alonzo@mrca.ca.gov

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER - LIMIT 5 PPL

Address: 3301 Workman Mill Rd, South El Monte, CA 91733

Community Workday! Help us weed, water, and maintain our native plant plots.

Partners: The event is made possible by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation in collaboration with Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis (First District), the Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity, Southern California Edison, Puente Hills Youth@Work Cohort, Studio-MLA, and Test Plot.

RSVP and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER

Address: Elysian Park Trail Entrance, closest address is 2221 Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90026

The plots are located around the Marian Harlow Memorial Grove. Park along Park Dr. and walk north along the Elysian Park trail for 3-5 mins. The plots are spread out around multiple hillsides.

RSVP HERE and SIGN VOLUNTEER WAIVER

Address: Elysian Park Trail, Elysian Park Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90012. 

Join Terremoto for a community workday at our Burn Plot in Elysian Park. Park at the small lot at the Elysian Park Trailhead, cross the street and head northeast on the Elysian Park Trail for 500’. The Burn Scar Test Plot will be on the left.