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Join Kathy Steckman, UCCE Master Gardener and Riverside County Master Composter, at the Sycamore Creek Interpretive Center in Temescal Valley and find out what an enormous difference composting can make in your home garden.

Join Laura Simpson, UCCE Master Gardener, at Sycamore Creek Interpretive Center (SCIC) in Temescal Valley and learn about picking a site for your vegetable garden, soil improvement, raised garden beds, soil mixes, starting from seed or buying plants, common pests and Spring and Fall vegetables.

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Full course website: https://calnat.ucanr.edu/Take_a_class/Nature_Up_Close/ Earn your CalNat certification on the beautiful Central Coast of California, near Morro Bay.

Full course site here: http://calnat.ucanr.edu/Take_a_class/UC_Santa_Cruz_Arboretum/ The Arboretum is offering the UC California Naturalists certification program to help you improve your naturalist skills and promote stewardship of California natural communities.

Full Course Website: https://calnat.ucanr.edu/Take_a_class/Stewards/ Stewards of the Coast & Redwoods is pleased to host the UC California Naturalist Certification Program.

Youth ages 5-18 are invited to come make three jars of a jam or jelly of their choice (apple, strawberry, peach or grape), then take one home and enter the other two in the 2024 El Dorado County Fair! Bring your own fruit and the Master Food Preservers will provide everything else.

Full Course Website: https://calnat.ucanr.edu/Take_a_class/MROSD/ The California Naturalist certification at Midpen serves to strengthen and deepen the level of training of its Docent Naturalists as a supplement to its longstanding foundational ecology and natural history training curriculum.

Full Course Website: https://calnat.ucanr.edu/Take_a_class/Sacramento_Tree_Foundation/ The Sacramento Tree Foundations UC Climate Stewards Certification Course will focus on the urban environment and the role it plays in climate action.

Join discussion and focus groups on topics including: Western Washington Dry Farmers Dry Farmed Tomatoes and Melons Dry Farmed Orchards Dry Farming African and Asian Crops Dry Farmed Warm Season Staple Crops Zoom link provided upon registration. Registrants will also receive meeting recording.