[Scpg] Tour of the Mission "Huerta" (orchard) Sun Oct 21, 2-4 pm

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News release –for details or further interview  information, news contacts: 
Huerta Volunteer Judy Sims _hjsims at verizon.net_ (mailto:hjsims at verizon.net)   
687-3262, or Huerta  Manager Jerry Sortomme at _jerrysortomme at hotmail.com_ 
(mailto:jerrysortomme at hotmail.com)  388-1921, or Museum Director Kristina Foss  at 
_sbmission at aol.com_ (mailto:sbmission at aol.com)  687-3724. These are contacts 
for  press information, not for publication.  
For Publication:          
Hidden Gardens  of the Mission Tour 
Date of  Event:  Oct. 21st, Sunday 2:00 to 4:00pm 
Sponsored by the Santa  Barbara Mission  Museum:  contact  687-6582  
The  public is invited on Sunday, Oct., 21st, 2:00-4:00 pm, to tour Mission  
gardens 
rarely seen by the public. The major tour  focus will be a first-ever public 
tour of the SB Mission Museum’s living history  “La Huerta” orchard garden 
project.  Heritage plants from the 1769-1834 mission era will be featured,  
highlighting restoration begun in 2002 of the Santa Barbara Mission’s existing  
orchard grounds.  The Museum’s  Huerta Project inaugurated a state-wide effort 
to rehabilitate and restore  authentic mission-era horticulture.  The eventual 
goal  is  twofold:  1) saving early plant  varieties and  2) exhibiting a  
living historical display of mission horticulture.  The focus is to interpret 
Native  American contributions to the Spanish-era horticulture history in  Alta 
California.  
The Tour  includes plant “stories,” tasting opportunities/refreshments, 
relevant  literature and signed, recently published horticultural books, shared 
heirloom  seeds, historic tool and plant displays, as well as docent interaction 
and  literature at five stations around the gardens.   
The  Overlook  Garden highlights native plants and  their use, emphasizing 
the vital role of the Chumash during the S.B.  Mission-era.  Other featured 
plants  include mission era grapes, fruit trees, cactus, bananas, sugar cane, and  
several seasonal heritage varieties. 
For  additional tour information and tour reservations (not required, but 
preferred),  please call 687-6582 .  Cost of the  tour is $12 per person for this 
fund-raising event.  




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