What is the California Native Horticultural Foundation (CNHF) all about and why now?   At CNHF, we aim to be the trusted hub where everyone can celebrate the beauty, resilience, and complexity of California’s native plants. We’re building a welcoming space for connection—where people feel

Our Story and the Amazing Plant Behind the CNHF Logo Yerba Santa (Spanish, and the accepted common name) Samahl jpilh (Kumeyaay) Palwut (Luiseño) Hoohohechot (Tongva) Eriodictyon crassifolium (the scientific name) was assigned by the British botanist George Bentham in California between 1836 – 1842. He

Sliding Baseline Syndrome Necessitates Our Urgency   By reconnecting with nature as soon as possible, we can hit “Reset” on what is called Generational Amnesia. What is the baseline standard by which we measure nature’s “normal” all around us? The integrity of the natural world

  GENERATIONAL AMNESIA is the result of the “Sliding Baseline Syndrome” in which each generation can only relate to nature according to their own experience, even as she becomes increasingly degraded, and our direct contact with her becomes more distant and scarce. We come to