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UC Master Food Preserver Program of Orange County: Event

Preserving Food Through Dehydration

Oct 20, 2025

Learn how to preserve food using dehydration in this information presentation from the UC Master Food Preservers of Orange County.  This program is for adults.  This is a free demonstration.  Registration not required.   
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[PODCAST] Heritage & Pass-a-long Plants

Oct 7, 2025

“See that blue Iris over there? A lovely lady shared that with me. She just passed away and now it’s the first to bloom!  It’s her smiling down on us today!!” Today on In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners, we fill your soul with happiness as we talk about what it means to give and receive precious…
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[PODCAST] Heritage & Pass-a-long Plants

October 7, 2025
By Loren Nelson
“See that blue Iris over there? A lovely lady shared that with me. She just passed away and now it’s the first to bloom!  It’s her smiling down on us today!!” Today on In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners, we fill your soul with happiness as we talk about what it means to give and receive precious…
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UC Master Food Preserver Program of Orange County: Event

Kombucha & Zesty Tomato Salsa

Oct 18, 2025

Join OC Master Food Preservers to learn How to make Kombucha … You will take home a living SCOBY in starter tea (ready to start your own batch) You will also prepare and can a Zesty Tomato Salsa to take home.It’s Easy … and lots of fun!$45 class fee covers ingredients, handouts and two canning jars with lids…
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Fruit Tree Culture Class This Spring

October 7, 2025
By Ben A Faber
Please join us for the 2026 Principles of Fruit and Nut Tree Growth, Cropping, and Management Course. Held March 9th through 13th, 2026, this course teaches the fundamentals of tree biology essential to making sound orchard management and business decisions. Across five days of lecture and in field…
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#6 Culturally responsive teaching in Computer Science

Culturally relevant pedagogy recognizes and honors the diverse cultural identities of all learners.What is culturally relevant teaching?Culturally responsive teaching, or culturally relevant pedagogy, uses the cultural knowledge, lived experiences, frames of refences and values of learners, to make the…
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#5 Introduction to coding with a microcontroller (using BBC micro:bit)

Hands-on learning with micro:bit, a microcontroller, helps youth understand the power of technology in the real world. The iCode curriculum develops competence in computer science through activities that value individual and family identity, teach social justice, and develop computer science skills and…
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#4 Identity and Computer Science

Integrating computer science education with identity development empowers young people to see themselves as coders connected to their cultural heritage. The iCode curriculum makes these connections explicit as facilitators value individual and family identity, teach social justice, and help youth develop…
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#3 Introducing block-based coding (Scratch)

The iCode curriculum is designed to empower young people by weaving together experiences that value individual and family identity, teach social justice, and develop computer science skills and mindsets. In block-based coding, computer commands are grouped together in pre-programmed blocks that…
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#2 Building relationships and belonging while teaching coding

Every child should have the opportunity to learn computer science.  Coding can be an expression of youth’s identity and their artistic selves. The iCode curriculum develops computational thinking, computer science skills, and career motivations by focusing on identity and cultural heritage.Before they…
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