Phillips House Museum: Lawns to Gardens Demonstration Project   

The 2010 Plan It Green conference was about local sustainability. The Phillips House Museum along with the City of Arcata agreed to have a “Lawns to Gardens” demonstration project, which meant a local garden “kitchen garden” was installed behind the Museum.

The garden is fenced to keep the deer out. The slope of the garden goes down hill and you will see boards
placed in the beds to keep the soil from washing away. The soil is basically clay, which has been amended with various amendments to better for growing. The garden gets south and west sun. As the years pass, the garden soil will improve with compost and amendments.

The sponsors of this project are growing vegetable and flowers, as one would find on the premises of an 1850’s homestead.

The new “Lawn to Gardens” sign at the Museum thanks the sponsors of the project: North Coast Community Garden Collaborative, Greenway Partners, Living Earth Landscapes, Humboldt Foodscapes, Beneficial Tea Company and Mark Dubrow and Any Sedic, and Locally Delicious.

There will demonstrations & classes during the summer.