Leigh Talmo has come on board as head gardener. She and her son Jensen Talmo are working closely with the volunteers teaching them sustainable gardening practices. Leigh has over 40 years of experience managing estate gardens, including a food forest, and has been teaching the Roots and Shoots children’s educational program for 24 years at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and are the curators of the California native habitat garden there. We are so happy to have Leigh join our team because of her environmental philosophies, and experience managing holistic landscapes and hope you will come to meet her at Arlington every Tuesday morning from 9am-12pm.

Thank you for your interest in volunteering at the garden!
The first Tuesday of every month at 12:00pm will be a short program that provides helpful training for new volunteers.

As part of this orientation, we will review the core principles informing Arlington Garden. We will discuss regenerative gardening, rainwater harvesting and catchment, habitat gardening, mulching, composting, and climate appropriate planting. After discussing these principles in the orientation, new volunteers will learn how to put them into practice each week. Time permitting, we will briefly overview tool maintenance and safety.

If you wish to start volunteering for the first time, attending the orientation is mandatory before you begin. However, all volunteers (particularly veteran volunteers who are interested in learning more about regenerative gardening, or volunteers who haven’t been by the garden in a long time) are very welcome to attend.

Leigh Talmo has come on board as head gardener. She and her son Jensen Talmo are working closely with the volunteers teaching them sustainable gardening practices. Leigh has over 40 years of experience managing estate gardens, including a food forest, and has been teaching the Roots and Shoots children’s educational program for 24 years at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and are the curators of the California native habitat garden there. We are so happy to have Leigh join our team because of her environmental philosophies, and experience managing holistic landscapes and hope you will come to meet her at Arlington every Tuesday morning from 9am-12pm.

Leigh Talmo has come on board as head gardener. She and her son Jensen Talmo are working closely with the volunteers teaching them sustainable gardening practices. Leigh has over 40 years of experience managing estate gardens, including a food forest, and has been teaching the Roots and Shoots children’s educational program for 24 years at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and are the curators of the California native habitat garden there. We are so happy to have Leigh join our team because of her environmental philosophies, and experience managing holistic landscapes and hope you will come to meet her at Arlington every Tuesday morning from 9am-12pm.