Stoneview Nature Center is a

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-operated garden and educational facility in

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along the

Park to Playa Trail The Park to Playa Trail in Los Angeles County, California is a pedestrian and bicycle route that connects the Baldwin Hills (mountain range), Baldwin Hills parklands to the Pacific Ocean (''Playa'' is ''beach'' in Spanish language, Spanish). Acc ...

. The nature center building and gardens are part of a “transformation of a five-acre

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site in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Culver City, California.” The main building, designed by Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects, is and features community space, a meeting/classroom, an outdoor kitchen, and bathrooms. The park, which has a focus on native California and edible plantings, includes a raised-bed

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demonstration garden, a native grass meadow, and installations by the contemporary art collective

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. The edible landscaping includes oranges, avocados, figs, grapes, lemons, blackberries, and blueberries, and less-familiar California native edibles including

lemonade berry ''Rhus integrifolia'', also known as lemonade sumac, lemonade berry, or lemonadeberry, is a shrub to small tree in the sumac genus ''Rhus''. It is native to the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges and the South Coast regions of Southern California. ...

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and prickly pear. Stoneview Nature Center 2022-08d

Fitness equipment and workout classes are offered at the park. Stoneview is a key segment of the

; “good views of L.A. are guaranteed on the dirt-and-paved track from Baldwin Hills to Playa del Rey.” The center operates an apiary in partnership with HoneyLove as well as a furnishing an elaborate

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for native bee, both as part of a public outreach campaign on the importance of pollinating insects. Stoneview Nature Center 2022-08e

Stoneview was recommended by local public-radio station

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as an outdoor refuge during the

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. The land was previously a primary school campus from 1956 to 2010, and was acquired by the Baldwin Hills Regional Conservation Authority in 2011.

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