Gardens
A Taste of the Presidio Gardens
Last evening we held a very special event in celebration of the Presidio Gardens. Several wonderful volunteers and staff took our guests through the garden and pointed out the many plants that are blooming and fruiting this spring, including the first tiny buds that will develop into grapes on our Mission San Gabriel grape vine, [...]
It’s Spring in the Presidio Gardens!
We are Kiara, Aiyanna, and Zinnia, students from The Anacapa School, and the current garden interns here at the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP). We’ve had this internship for about 3 months now. During our time here we’ve been tending to the wheat that was planted in late October of last year. Our [...]
The Garden Thrives, But We’ll Miss You Gazal and Corinna!
by Gazal Hamayouni and Corinna Roberts We are nearing the end of our internship, so there is no better way to say goodbye than to tell our readers what we have accomplished in our five months of volunteering with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation. The last time we blogged, we shared information about [...]
Garden Update: An Abundance of Radishes!
In Santa Barbara, we are lucky enough to garden year-round. This fall, our garden interns from Anacapa School, Corinna and Gazal, planted a winter garden at the Presidio’s Northeast corner, and we have been eagerly watching the tiny seedlings sprout and unfurl tender new leaves. The biggest success so far? Radishes. Lots of radishes. [...]
What’s New in the Garden!
By Gazal Hamayouni and Corinna Roberts We have been working with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation for three months now, and we have made a lot of progress in both the Presidio Northeast corner gardens as well as at El Cuartel. At the end of September, we began our internship by threshing White [...]
It Takes a Village to Tend the Presidio
On Saturday September 17, SBTHP hosted about twenty volunteers who signed up to work at nonprofits all over Southern California through United Way’s Day of Caring event. The volunteers accomplished a tremendous amount of work at the Presidio in four short hours, including whitewashing adobe walls, preparing beds for a winter garden, and making adobe [...]
Our summer wheat crop from the Presidio Garden
This spring we planted white Sonora wheat on the Northeast corner of the Presidio with the help of local third graders participating in our Early California Days program. This month we harvested our crop and will save a portion of the wheat berries to plant a new crop next spring.We plan to grind remainder of [...]
