A new garden on the Central Coast helps celebrate the region's Chumash heritage.
The Chumash Garden is an addition to the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden. It was created in collaboration with the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribe and PG&E. In Chumash, the garden is known as yaktititʸu qspiłhimu, the Place of the Root People.
The garden honors Chumash culture and traditional uses of native plants. The two-acre garden features more than 40 native species selected for their significance to the Chumash people. Some signs identify the plants using both English and Chumash language names.
PG&E provided funding to help pay for the project, while hundreds of volunteers did much of the work creating it.
