A Walk in TreePeople’s Organic Garden of Delights

Sunday at 11 a.m., the TreePeople people will offer a free tour of their 42-acre site. Set in the middle of Coldwater Canyon Park, TreePeople’s hourlong, weekly tours are geared to appeal to visitors of all ages.

Visitors will be taken on a tour of the organic garden, where volunteers will talk about how they keep the bugs and other garden pests away (nets for snails, herbs with odors bugs don’t cotton to, mulching with wood chips). The penned-up chickens and opossum usually are a draw for youngsters.

TreePeople is an environmental problem-solving group that works on creating solutions to ecological problems in Southern California. The group has championed drought- and smog-tolerant gardening as well as emphasizing the importance of trees in an overall clean-air policy.

TreePeople hosts tours for 50,000 schoolchildren a year as part of its educational program. Whether on a classroom field trip or a Sunday walkabout with their parents, children are quick studies when it comes to the importance of water conservation and recycling.

After the walk, families may shop in the group’s nursery of drought- and smog-tolerant plants or continue their outing on the many trails of the surrounding park. Picnicking here is pretty much limited to wide spots along the trails.

TreePeople is at 12601 Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles. Information: (213) 273-8733.