Phig entrance sign near a raised bed

 

 

 

Volunteer Spotlight

Outstanding Volunteer of the Year, Bob Swanson, retired meteorologist, was honored at volunteer of the yearPHIG's Open House in October. He has helped  PHIG since its inception and was instrumental in siting and constructing our weather station, which he has demonstrated to many  visitors. Funds are needed for an Internet connection to make the weather station data available for the school and community. He sited and constructed a solar panel system to power the water pump for the spring in the dry streambed. He has fixed wheelbarrows and tools, built bird houses, bird shelters, and a bat house, and helped in so many ways, he is truly a model of support to our community.
Our sincere thanks to the donors and volunteers who have made this garden possible.

Welcome to the
Pleasant Hill Instructional Garden (PHIG)
Water Conservation Demonstration Garden

Starting in Spring of 2007 as a landscape design applications class project in the Mt. Diablo Adult Education Gardening Program, in less than a year PHIG went  from a plan on paper to the beginnings of an over 4000 square feet demonstration garden for water conservation and habitat restoration.  The official groundbreaking for the garden took place on Sept 15, 2007, Pleasant Hill's Community Service Day. Thanks to donations and an all-volunteer effort  with the assistance of many community organizations, the garden now hosts a kiosk structure, an arbor, benches, planting beds, pathways, a composting area, and a variety of drought tolerant and California native plants on what was formerly a scrap of wasteland used for overflow parking.
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PHIG (Pleasant Hill Instructional Garden)
1 Santa Barbara Rd, Pleasant Hill, CA
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