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LA Native @ The Mar Vista Farmer's Market
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Going Native Makes Sense!
Did you know?
- California uses 20% of its energy consumption to move and treat water.
- Up to 70% of residential water goes to watering landscaping in our county.
- Our landscaping is predominantly non-native tropicals and invasive species that consume on average seven times more water than our native plants.
- Non-native plants need fertilizers, unlike our native plants that evolved in our local soil.
- The abundant use of fertilizers has created a huge source of pollution in Santa Monica Bay.
- Landscaping with native plants does not cost more, and can even reduce maintenance costs.
- We've lost 90% of our native songbird and butterfly populations in the last fifty years. This is no coincidence. A primary food source for most of these bird species is butterfly caterpillars. Nearly all the native butterfly populations can only eat the native plants.
L.A. Native is a coalition encouraging the use of native plants in phase two of Expo Line stations.
Their goal is simple: get the MTA and Expo Authority to use native species for the station landscaping in phase two of the Expo light rail line.
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