Water District offers landscaping class

By Carol Cormaci, <i><a href=”mailto:carol.cormaci@latimes.com”>carol.cormaci@latimes.com</a></i>

June 6, 2014 10:41 AM PT

Foothill Municipal Water District announced this week it will host a free landscaping class, “Backyard Horticulture Especially in the Wildlife Urban Interface” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 28. The class will be held in Loma Alta Park, 3330 Lincoln Ave., Altadena.

The presenter is Ellen Mackey, staff ecologist with the Metropolitan Water District and the Council for Watershed Health, who has converted her own backyard into an urban farm.

Space is limited. To make a reservation email koblak@fmwd.com. For more details, call (818) 790-4036.
-- Carol Cormaci, carol.cormaci@latimes.com

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Carol Cormaci

Carol Cormaci is executive editor of Times Community News’ Daily Pilot in Orange County and pens the TimesOC newsletter. She is a native Southern Californian and a proud UCLA Bruin. She previously served as managing editor of three former Times Community News publications: the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader and La Cañada Valley Sun.