- Author: Amy Breschini
www.joe.org/joe/2008december/iw1.shtml
A special thank you to our Farmer's Market volunteers who meet the public every week. Your job is so important to us by being the face that the public meets, dispersing information and consistently getting the UC Master Gardener name out there! There's no way to quantify just how many people you have reached!
If you are interested in being a volunteer at one of our Farmer's Market booths, please contact Peggy Pearce.
- Author: Amy Breschini
Happy New Year!
We hope that this will be a happy and healthy new year with a lot of fun, interesting, inspiring and educational Master Gardener activities for everyone!
Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey. Your feedback is important in determining the direction we take this year.
ucce.ucdavis.edu/survey/surveyadmin/surveyedit.cfm
Photo by Arnoldius
- Author: Amy Breschini
The UC IPM Program recently created an online training course for retail and garden center employees and others, such as Master Gardeners, who advise residents about home and garden pesticides. The free training provides basic information about types of pesticides, selecting pesticides, and pesticide safety. The narrated course takes about 40 minutes to complete, includes quizzes, and gives a certificate of completion once finished.
This is a great continuing education program for those working the helpline during the slower times this winter.
This is not recommended if you are on dial-up internet service.
Follow this link:
www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/IPMPROJECT/retailtraining.html
- Author: Amy Breschini
Oaks: The Next Regeneration
Friday, December 5, 2008
8:30am-2:00pm
This is a great educational opportunity for Master Gardeners!
The University of California Cooperative Extension and the Native Tree Committee of San Luis Obispo County are holding a workshop on oak tree regeneration. Among the topics are oak tree regeneration issues, field research, wildlife habitat, and oppotunites for assistance. Highlighted by the Sinton Family's award-winning stewardship of natural resources on their working landscape. This is the final workshop for 2008, in a series of workshops and field days-- Working Among the Oaks-- on agricultural stewardship and oak woodland conservation.
Register by phone, fax, email or online. Space is limited.
Registration link: danr.ucop.edu/ihrmp
Map and Directions to the Sinton Family's Avenales Ranch: www.mapquest.com/mq/5-UU2uUe*K
Avenales Ranch Road at American Canyon, Approximately 6 miles SE of Pozo, CA.
From Hwy 101, take the Hwy 58- Santa Margarita Exit. Go East through the town of Santa Margarita and at the far end, where the main street curves left, turn right to cross the railroad tracks and continue on Hwy 58 (also Estrada Ave.) Where Hwy 58 turns to the left a couple of times out of town, continue straight to Pozo Road.
About 20 miles from Santa Margarita, drive through Pozo 1.5 miles east of Pozo, turn right (still Pozo Road) and 1.8 miles later bear right at the mail boxes. (on Avenales Ranch Road) The road is gravel and dirt from here on out. About 2 miles from the gate, you cross a narrow bridge and turn left onto American Canyon. Follow this road until you meet the rest of the group.
Registration fee $15 per person. Morning refreshments and lunch will be served.
Make check payable to UC Regents.
contact for Mail registration:
Sherry Cooper, UCCE Forestry,1851 Hartnell Avenue, Redding, CA 96002.
Phone: 530-224-4902 Fax: 530-224-4904
Email: slcooper@nature.berkeley.edu
For more information contact: Jim Zingo or Bill Tietje 805-781-5938, San Luis Obispo UCCE, Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program.
- Author: Amy Breschini
Here's a few photos to show what a school garden committee can accomplish in one workday! Thirty parents and teachers showed up to break ground on the school garden this Saturday at San Gabriel School.
Lyn Lochridge from the MG class of 2008 came to learn and help instruct parents, kids, and teachers in water systems and water control. She worked with the kids, showing them how water came down from the hillside to run off into the garden. Demonstrating why we needed our trench to guide the water and not flood the garden. She and the kids collected rocks to fill the trench from the site.
Cindy Muther was able to be a foreman and give directions on ground cover cloth, mulch and its uses, DG for pathways and handicap access, fence construction, and composting and compost bins from pallets. Both of them answered numerous question from adults concerning their garden problems and how Garden Based Learning worked. It was a very successful day!
The only thing that wasn't accomplished was building the raised beds and stringing the fence wire. Cindy brought examples from the GBL workshop on raised bed construction so everyone knows what it should look like and how to do it in their own gardens. There will be another workshop on December 6th to build the beds and finish the fence.
The circle will be a native plant and butterfly garden. Along the edges will be an urban forest, cut flower garden, and native plants. The pine tree in the corner was planted after I left by the kids. It is the first tree donation for the forest. Apple and pear trees will be planted on the fence line.
Five parents and teachers returned on Sunday to finish spreading the DG. They worked an additional 3 hours to complete as much of the garden as they could for the kids to see Monday morning at school. An amazing job! You can see the compost bin in the back.
Photos and details were submitted by Cindy Muther. For more Garden Based Learning Photos, please check out our internal album on the Master Gardener VMS website.
Thank you Cindy and Lyn for sharing with us and sharing with the children in your community!
