Planting and Weeding in Griffith Park, April 19, 2025

By Nancy Beverly

Learning about some of the plants to be planted around the Griffith Park visitor center. This plant is Artemisia douglasiana, known as mugwort. Photo Nancy Beverly.

This wasn’t an official GLS event but it was still a groovy thing to do. Some of us hikers joined the Friends of Griffith Park at the GP visitors’ center area to do weeding and planting.

My councilwoman Nithya Raman and then FoGP President Gerry Hans gave opening remarks and gratitude for our help… and then we got great lessons on how to actually do the planting.

Huge turnout for this event — including lots of kids. I remember cleaning up trash at my grade school on the VERY FIRST Earth Day back in 1970. Here’s to the next generation learning how important it is to take care of Mother Earth.

Kids working in the soil in Griffith Park. Photo Nancy Beverly.
Nancy digging weeds near the visitor center in Griffith Park. Photo Nancy Beverly.