Park Programs
Garden Angels
Los Rios Park and Reata Park in San Juan Capistrano are expansive, scenic spaces featuring native plant gardens, winding trails, and peaceful sitting areas. These parks serve as the vibrant backdrop for Goin Native’s garden programs, which enrich the lives of people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities through meaningful connection with nature.
Join us at either park, bring gloves and wear closed-toed shoes. No experience required. If its your first time to volunteer with us, please bring a filled-out copy of the city’s volunteer application.
Contact our park coordinator Weej at weej@goinnative.net for more info.
We look forward to gardening with you!
Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Each week at Children's Hospital of Orange County Goin Native provides children ages 10-17 with small gardens to tend and garden related activities while staying at the Mental Health Inpatient Clinic at CHOC.
Since 2021, Goin Native's Horticulture program educator Kristen Colvin, has offered children struggling with mental health issues a space for hope, curiosity, an opportunity to learn life lessons: that through nurturing plants, they too are nurturing themselves.
Goin Natives impact at CHOC has increased by 20% this year with more students in our twice weekly zoom garden program thanks to our compassionate care-plant expert, Kristen, who engages each child with love and sends a message that community cares.