Grace Hudson Museum: The Wild Garden

Ukiah 2018 

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LandCulture (then ABLA) co-wrote a successful 3 million State of California Nature Education grant with the City of Ukiah and the Grace Hudson Museum to develop a 4 acre garden at the Museum to demonstrate how Pomo Indian peoples managed the landscape in the Ukiah Valley to harvest food, fiber and shelter.

 

The Wild Garden builds off the Museum’s extensive collection of Grace Hudson’s portraits of Pomo Indian peoples and their magnificent baskets to illustrate how basket plants are managed and harvested, grasslands can be managed for grass and wildflower seed, salmon sustainably harvested and many more traditional ecological techniques.

 

LandCulture redesigned the Museum parking lot for accessibility and the manage stormwater, daylighting a nearby section of stream and creating a treatment wetland area.