Tehachapi Resource Conservation District

🌱 NOW OPEN 🌱 The TRCD Native Plant Sale online store is now open for pre-orders. Visit www.tehachapircd.org and click on Native Plant Sale to place your pre-orders now. All pre-orders will be available for pick up on day of sale (4/25/2026). Feel free to contact our office at (661) 825-5400 for more information. Thank you !

The Tehachapi Resource Conservation District building was first put up in 1955 to serve as home to the Tehachapi offices of Kern County Roads and KC Ag Departments.
The rugged steel frame structure, with heavy gauge corrugated steel siding and roofing, is still standing strong seventy Tehachapi winters later!

Miner’s Lettuce: the most easily foraged plant of all. This is the time of year when it looks like tiny lily pads have suddenly appeared in shady spots near the base of trees, or along gentle slopes and beside meandering shaded footpaths. These welcome clusters of round leaves with miniature white flowers in the center are the unmistakable sign of Miner’s Lettuce.
​ Miner’s Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) is a California native that has two leaves that are fused together around the petiole (leaf stem) to form the distinctive round leaf that makes them so easy to identify.
​The term Miner’s Lettuce came from the fact that it was eaten by gold miners, some 300,000 of whom flocked to California after word got out that gold had been discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848. Because it is rich in Vitamin C, it proved to be the salvation of many scurvy-stricken miners. The gold seekers were made aware of this remedy by Native Californians.
​As many California children are taught growing up, you don’t even have to prepare it — just pick some leaves and start eating them. Or they can be placed in salads, on crackers, as pesto, etc. Miner’s Lettuce can be used for pretty much any recipe that would use spinach.

2026 Tejon Ranch Oak Planting Registration: *Volunteers Wanted* Call the Tehachapi RCD office at (661) 825-5400 or email [email protected] for more information. Planting dates include February 27–28, March 5–6, and March 12–13. You may register for one or multiple days. Additional details will be shared with registered participants as each date approaches. Thank you!