Olivewood Gardens and

Learning Center

National City, CA

Completed in 2010

The Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center is a garden-based learning facility and a demonstration garden for the surrounding community at the International Community Foundation. Visitors learn about organic gardening, nutrition, and cook with crops from the garden. Marcie Harris Landscape Architecture maximized the client’s limited space while creating a site design that is playful, orderly and flexible. Sustainability was also an integral part of the project. Sustainable components include: graywater demonstration garden, permeable parking lot, water efficient irrigation system, use of native plants and installation of planting with organic non-chemical fertilizers.

Awards: Honor Award 2010 ASLA Southern California Chapter Quality of Life Design Award for Institutional Design

Orchid Award from the 2010 Orchids and Onions for Landscape Architecture

Photography: 1/2/4/5/6/7/8 by Tuananh Nguyen