Intensive Sessions (optional)

Join Viticulture and Pest Management Farm Advisor Dr. Carmen Gispert in this two-hour intensive class about grapevine management.  Through this class attendees will review and learn how to properly select, grow train, prune and identify common pests and disease of grapevines. 

America’s first and foremost botanist and plant collector is again on the speaking circuit! Close friends with Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, he was a correspondent with many of the world’s foremost scientists and plant collectors including: Philip Miller, Carl Linnaeus, Johann Gronovius and Peter Collinson. He is credited with reforesting most of the English countryside with new “American” plant introductions. He was especially conscious of how easily man can destroy the balance of nature. His humor, his passion and his achievements will entertain, inspire and awe as he shares his hope for the future of the earth and the people who inhabit it!

A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when you’re trying to diagnose a problem in the garden or identify an unknown plant. A fancy camera isn’t necessary to make useful pictures. We’ll learn how use your cell phone or that old point-and-shoot camera in your county office to take great shots of plants in the office or in the field. Bring your charged up smartphone or a camera with built-in flash because we’ll be taking pictures.

Learning how to diagnosis plant problems (plant diseases, insect damage, abiotic problems including assessment of herbicide damage) and the identification of insects and weeds is an essential skill of a UC Master Gardener volunteer. Knowing what information to gather, how to describe damage, plant or insect parts, all assist the diagnostic process. This two hour intensive with UCCE Tree Crop and Environmental Horticulture Advisor Janine Hasey will help develop skills and confidence on how to diagnose plant problems and where to find information and solutions to those issues.

The Illustrated journal is the creative process of recording your garden in an artful way. We’ll explore approaches to drawing, nature sketching, watercolor and documentation. Best of all your illustrated journal will uniquely reflect your style and creative voice. Workshop participants will benefit from demonstrations, encouragement and individual help. Supply List: Journal Supply List

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Workshop skill level: All