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online registrations for classes. If you would
like to take advantage of online registration,
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of each seminar description. Just click
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fee will be charged.
You can also call us to register for classes at 415.663.1200 ext. 373 or download and print a registration form that you can mail or fax to us.
Nancy Bauer & Charlotte Torgovitsky
Saturday, May 25 • 10:30AM – 4:30PM • $50 ($40 Members)
Enhance the habitat value of any garden and create abundant year-round resources to attract a diversity of wildlife species. Habitat gardening basics and wildlife-friendly gardening practices, water features and wildlife ponds are covered through examples of beautiful habitat gardens from around the SF Bay Region. The focus is native plants through the seasons and their relationships with various local birds, butterflies, bees and other beneficial insects. We’ll take a close look at a display of some of the best habitat plants for the garden, their care and culture and function in the garden, followed by a walk up to Kule Loklo to identify various native plants in a natural setting. To see native plants in a cultivated setting we’ll end the afternoon with a tour of a local wildlife habitat garden.
Linda Ann Vorobik
Saturday, June 15 • 9AM – 4PM • $50 ($40 Members)
Enjoy a botanical outing at Point Reyes as a vehicle for learning stories about how plants were named, who named them, and what their names mean. The day begins at the Red Barn, with coffee and slide lecture of how plants are named, and stories about selected plant “star” species. We will then go into the field for a field trip visiting several different plant habitats (pine forest, coastal salt marsh, coastal strand, coastal prairie), and hear more stories about selected plants, based on their latin names, who named them, and under what circumstances. The day ends at Chimney Rock, where we can ponder all we have learned in the glory of lovely coastal prairie wildflowers.
Also open to youth (age 15-17) with parent attendance.
Autumn Summers
Sunday, June 30 • 9AM – 4PM • $50 ($40 Members)
Come explore the bounty of local wild and naturalized medicines and foods that grow throughout Northern California to include in your wellness kit and kitchen pantry. Between time in the classroom and on the trail we will discover the many native and introduced plants of the Bay Area that have been used as food and medicine to sustain life and health for hundreds of years. Autumn will share some folklore and material culture uses, and help us develop a deeper appreciation for our green neighbors. These riches include familiar plants such as stinging nettle, acorn, miner’s lettuce, milk thistle, manzanita, oak, willow, California bay and California poppy plus some not so familiar plants including coffee berry, usnea and local seaweeds. We are surrounded by medicine and food if we know what to look for. We will cover how to identify, properly harvest and use these herbs as well as make and taste nettle pesto, roasted bay nuts and an acorn savory dip.
Also open to youth (age 15-17) with parent attendance.
Kathy & Dave Biggs
Saturday, August 10 • 9:45AM – 4PM • $50 ($40 Members)
Meet the intriguing Odonata; the family to which the dragonflies and damselflies belong. They’re solar powered, range in colors from red, yellow, blue, green, pink, metallic, in-wheel, instars and lower lips with ‘spear guns’ attached these insects are like no other creature! A lively and colorful morning presentation will be used to teach about their unusual biology, life cycle, behavior and ecology. While in the classroom we’ll introduce the identification marks and behavioral traits for the most common 50 of the 57 species in the North Bay. In the afternoon the Biggs will take the class out into the field in two groups to practice identification skills and to make sense of these Odonata’s unusual behaviors.
Also open to youth (age 12-17) with attending adult.
Frank Binney
Saturday, August 31 • 10AM – 5PM $50 ($40 Members)
Once thought to be extinct, Tule Elk are making a remarkable comeback at Point Reyes National Seashore. Enjoy a day shadowing these majestic survivors with a nature writer who has assisted park biologists with tule elk studies and the annual elk census for over 16 years. As we hike along scenic granite ridges between Pacific Ocean cliffs and the wilderness shoreline of Tomales Bay, we’ll explore the role tule elk played in California ecology for thousands of years, the reasons they nearly vanished forever, and what we can do to help them continue to thrive. With scores of large-antlered bull elk actively competing for females in the annual rut, we’ll have many opportunities to observe breeding season action and herd dynamics up close through spotting scopes.
Also open to youth (age 15-17) with parent attendance.
We offer gift certificates for specific classes or the dollar amount of your choice. Email or call 415.663.1200 ext. 373 and we can create a certificate for you to give as a gift.
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This page last modified May 21, 2013.
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