Get Involved with

Our Sacred Grounds

Apply your editing, writing, marketing, social media or organizational skills

Newsletter or website blog articles

Emails to the Sacred Grounds list

Staffing info tables on the patio on Sundays

I’m inspired, I can help with Sacred Grounds Communications.

Come get your hands dirty and connect to the grounds

Patio Extension

Celebration Garde

- move commemorative pavers and Sacred Stones
- assist stamping and dying concrete walkway
- planting
- irrigation

Desert Canyon Garden

- remove existing irrigation
- oversee grading and boulder placement
- planting
- irrigation

Apply your love of the land and native conservation knowledge, or come learn about our native plants

Oversee gardener, ensuring maintenance preserves habitat

- Give direction to balance appearance and habitat
- e.g. avoid poisons, save wildflowers, remove invasive weeds, leave palm skirts for yellow bats, trim Palo Verdes, etc.

Weekly Garden Club

- Weeding, watering and trimming
- Replace dead plantings with beds of encelia, dyebush, creosote, etc.
- Repair irrigation emitters, or communicate needs to gardener
- Maybe just transplant volunteer seedlings

Patio perimeter rock garden

- Add irrigation
- Plant verbena or some other desert native
  - Collect verbena seeds and sprinkle liberally into the rock garden, or purchase verbena starts and plant them into the rock garden
- Floral and butterfly plantings
  - Propose native plantings along parking and sidewalks for year-round bloom to benefit the pollinators and butterflies

I’m inspired, I can help with Sacred Grounds tending the land.

Education – see if we can provide a resource for learning ecology for local school children

Green Sanctuary– help carry on our Green Sanctuary Committments

Fundraising – as a completely self-funded project, you can apply your fundraising or grant writing skills

Outreach – apply or establish connections with local environmentally interested groups