Butterfly Garden News

The Rainbow Bridge Festival
June 26-29th

This Event brings people together through a common experience, involving a connection withnature and valuable interaction with Community expressed through Music, Yoga and healthy Lifestyle exploration.

This is primarily an educational event, delivering knowledge, awareness and inspiration in the following areas:
* Developing a model for world peace, through networking & education specific […]

We welcome the combined efforts of the County of Lake, the City of Clearlake, the Highlands Senior Service Center (HSSC), the Konocti Unified School District (KUSD) and the Lake County Community Co-op in creating a community garden at the Senior Center in Clearlake. With $40,000 seed money from the County of Lake, this project will […]

Cob – A Natural Alternative
Photos / Article © 2009 Andrea Anderson
Cob has been used for centuries as a natural building material. A type of free form adobe, cob structures built hundreds of years ago are still standing in many parts of the world. It is both cheap and ecologically sound, not to mention strong. Made […]

Yes, it is time to start planning and planting your winter garden. Many people don’t realize you can garden in the winter but you can. In fact, there are many plants which actually thrive quite well in cool weather. (We have listed some of them below.) Winter is actually a wonderful time to plant, because […]

Lake County is working on a GE Free Zone Ordinance. To support this ordinance and to find out more about the ordinance and other ecological issues, please visit The Lakelive website

Here are some of the heirloom plants we are currently growing at Butterfly Gardens. (All photos on this page- © 2007 Andrea Anderson)

Purple Cape Cauliflower

Butterhead All The Year Round Lettuce

Wild Marigold

Wild Bergamot