Address: The Lawrence Hall of Science, 1 Centennial Dr, Berkeley, CA 94720

Enter the main entrance to Lawrence Hall of Science. Walk past the planetarium and back outside to the “Dinosaur lookout.” The plot is located near the picnic tables and open during main visiting hours.

This project will help reconnect members of the Ohlone community, and especially the Chochenyo band native to the East Bay, to the specific land and essential land-based relationships and practices from which they have been cut off. We propose to restore former grazing land, currently dominated by fireprone annual grasses, into a Test Plot that establishes native food and medicinal plants on this spectacular west facing hillside overlooking the San Francisco bay.

Learn more about the ‘ottoy initiative

Ohlone Hillside Test Plot

A hillside restoration overlooking the SF Bay

LOG

INATURALIST PROJECT

TEAM

—Jen Toy, Test Plot

PARTNERS

—Lawrence Hall of Science

—Terremoto

—mak-’amham

—Supported by a grant from the Xerces Society

YEAR

—Initial planting Winter 2024-2025

PLANT LIST

FORBS

Asclepias fascicularis / Narrowleaf Milkweed
Diplacus aurantiacus / Sticky Monkeyflower
Penstemon Heterophyllus / Foothill Penstemon
Solidago velutina ssp. californica / California Goldenrod
Symphyotrichum chilense / Pacific Aster
Asclepias californica / California Milkweed
Grindelia camporum / Gumplant
Phacelia californica / California Phacelia
Phacelia imbricata / Imbricate Phacelia
Verbena lasiostachys / Western Vervain

GRASSES

Stipa pulchra / Purple Needlegrass

SHRUBS

Arctostaphylos densiflora / Manzanita
Baccharis pilularis / Coyote Brush
Ceanothus 'Concha' / California Lilac
Ceanothus 'Julia Phelps' / California Lilac
Eriogonum fasciculatum / California Buckwheat
Lupinus albifrons / Silver Bush Lupine
Ribes malvaceum / Chaparral Currant