Please join us for our next workday at the Robson Harrington Park Permaculture Garden, 237 Crescent Road in San Anselmo. We will continue to sheet mulch the site on Saturday, April 21st, starting at noon.

Bring any snacks or lunch that you want, plus plenty of drinking water, and work gloves if desired. We have plenty of tools on site. If you have any cardboard to contribute to the sheet mulching effort, please bring that too.

For questions or to get involved, please email Rebecca at Rspeert@comcast.net

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Robson Harrington Park Hillside Proposal
by Rebecca Speert

Original Site Assessment:
The hill oriented to the northeast of the Robson Harrington Park garden plots is untended. Plants are over grown and dried out. Plot could benefit from clearing debris, mulching, planting of low maintenance species, and implementation of swales.

Objective:
To create an aesthetically pleasing, low maintenance arrangement of plantings, providing a cleaner, more maintained appearance in the park while increasing bird and beneficial insect habitat. The area will also act as a demonstration site for park visitors to envision what a low maintenance landscape can look like.

Proposal:

• Implement swales on hillside to capture, sink, and spread rain water. Mulch the whole area.
• Plant climate appropriate plants, grasses and medicinal herbs that require little water and are low maintenance
• Possible educational signage to provide explanations of plant choices and earth works.

Permaculture Marin is supporting the project by directing some of the grant money received from the Lia Fund towards the purchase of plants for the garden.