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Educational Activities

The Ventura Botanical Gardens is a great place for learning, especially for children. Here are some educational activities to help enrich your next visit:
A memory game titled "Matching Plants," featuring tall, red flowering plants on the cards, displayed against a bright green background. Perfect for those seeking engaging educational activities.
PLAY NOW!
Illustration of a large rock with the words "Garden Reflections" engraved on it, surrounded by smaller rocks, perfect for educational activities.
READ & REFLECT
Illustration of a green potted plant with overlapping leaves, viewed from above. A text overlay in the center reads "Plant HUNT," inviting you to explore this educational activity.
START HUNTING!
Two polaroid photos: one shows a small bird perched on the ground, the other displays a close-up of a pink flower on a cactus. The caption below reads, "Photo Scavenger Hunt." Perfect for educational activities to engage curious minds!
GRAB YOUR CAMERA!

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quail forever is an organization that's
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concerned with
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conservation and maintenance of wildlife
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habitat
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the chapter here in ventura has been
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around since the mid 80s
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and a few months ago we approached the
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ventura botanical gardens about
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installing
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a wildlife water source on the
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botanical gardens property and
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the botanical gardens talked with us and
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approved the project
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and we looked at various sites and
00:34
finally selected the site where we
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worked today
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we began this morning at eight o'clock
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so we started working by hand
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and had worked down a little maybe a
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foot
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when we approached a contractor that was
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working for the botanical gardens who
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had a mini excavator
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and once that hole was excavated we
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began
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refilling with material that had been
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broken down
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from large clods into smaller pieces so
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that we could establish a base
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inside the excavation for the water
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tank it's a plastic water tank heavy
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duty plastic water tank
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that collects water during the rainy
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season stores that water and allows
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wildlife to access the water during the
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dry season
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and so we put dirt in to
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establish the base for it leveled it out
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as best we could and then we put in sand
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uh to create a level base for the
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guzzler
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and we then put it in place
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our next step will be to get water into
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it
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we don't expect rain for quite some time
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so we want to
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get some water into that so wildlife can
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become accustomed to where it's located
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and start using it
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we did see some california or valley
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quail
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near the guzzler today so they will
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undoubtedly start using it
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that we've had bobcats mountain lions
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coyotes
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foxes squirrels
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rabbits deer all kinds of wildlife that
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use these water sources
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there are somewhere between 60 and 80 of
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these wildlife water sources
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throughout ventura county and on a
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little bit into santa barbara county
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and san luis obispo and kern counties as well

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volunteers are cleaning up the hills
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with the so-called Thomas fire burned
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thousands of acres our ABC 7 drone was
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in the hills above Ventura today as more
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than 600 Cal Lutheran students removed
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bottles and other trash exposed by the
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fire last December the freshman students
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also spread mulch around surviving
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plants in Grant Park this is all part of
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a partnership with the city of Ventura
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that began more than 10 years ago we've
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had a lot of community members step up
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over the past six months to help us but
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this many kids with this much energy
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gonna make a huge dent in kind of
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getting the park back to where we want
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it to be the incoming students are
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participating in you got served during
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New Student Orientation it's the
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university's largest service-learning
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project Thomas fire burned more than 280
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1000 acres

ABOUT THE GARDENS

The mission of the Ventura Botanical Gardens is to create and maintain public gardens for the preservation, education, cultural contribution and enhancement of the entire community.

Grant Park
567 Poli Street
Ventura, CA 93001

Mail To:
P.O. Box 3127
Ventura, CA 93006-3127

Call: (805) 232-3113

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