by Arlington Garden | Jan 9, 2024 | Arlington, Features, Guest Letters, Wildlife
Pictured: Allen’s hummingbird. Credit: Charles Hood. (Charles Hood) This special place is an urban oasis, as we all know subjectively, but that can be shown with quantitative data too, if, for example, we look at the resident and migrant hummingbirds. Six...
by Arlington Garden | Oct 21, 2022 | Features, Guest Letters
Tahereh Sheerazie is Head Gardener at Arlington Garden. In this travelogue, she shares her experience hiking through the 2022 monsoons in Chitral, Pakistan that caused record-breaking flooding and describes some of the resilient people and landscapes she met in the...
by Arlington Garden | Jun 4, 2022 | Climate Change Gardening, Environmental Justice, Guest Letters
Paloma Avila is a birder, gardener, tiny-owl-enthusiast, and certified CA naturalist. As Arlington Garden’s former Program and Development Manager, she piloted the Roots and Regeneration public program series. She is presently Grants Writer at the Trust for...
by Arlington Garden | Jan 25, 2022 | Features, Guest Letters, Wildlife
Pictured: Red-whiskered Bulbul at Arlington Garden. Credit: William Hallstrom. One of the most frequently seen non-native bird in Arlington Garden and surrounding areas is the Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus). This berry-eating bird, originally native to...
by Arlington Garden | Oct 14, 2021 | Features, Guest Letters, Wildlife
Northern Mockingbird, image courtesy of William Hallstrom. Bob Gorcik volunteers at Arlington Garden. He has been a birder since he was in middle school. As an undergraduate in college, he was a wildlife research assistant, which allowed him to study birds up close....
by Arlington Garden | Sep 14, 2021 | Environmental Justice, Features, Guest Letters, Pasadena History
Brian Biery is a community organizer, documentary photographer, and Adjunct Professor of Advocacy/Social Justice at Pacific Oaks College. His world view has been shaped by serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala and by engaging his community on social justice...
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