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The 2019 Gardens Gone Native is a free, self-guided tour featuring home gardens in and around Sacramento and Yolo counties. Gardens are comprised of at least 50% California Native plants. Participants will be inspired by a variety of gardens that showcase the beauty, versatility, and hardiness of California native plants as well as their role in water efficient landscapes. A diversity of garden styles can be viewed, including: small city lots to large semi-rural parcels, professional and homeowner designs, and hundreds of native plant species.

MAMGA is excited to have representatives from Purple Cow, which is based in Middleton, talk about the value of healthy soil and how to achieve it. Purple Cow is well respected for their organic products which revolve around improving soil texture, porosity and fertility. This class provides one hour of educational credit towards MGV certification and is limited to MAMGA members and their guests.

Are you a home owner with an eye toward urban homesteading and sustainability? Inspired, but seeking a way to organize and approach design? Then join us for this fun class covering the major aspects of permaculture design. The hope is to impart to students the concepts of site assesment, zones of use, rainwater harvesting, food forest design, companion planting, passive soil management, drip irrigation, and more.

This is the third in a series of plantings to increase the tree canopy cover in West Roseville with over 1200 trees! This will imrove our urban forest which provides benefits to the whole community. Improved open space areas for biking, running, outdoor activities, wildlife habitat, increased water and air particulate filtration, slows water runnoff & improves soil retention- which both work towards flood prevention. Trees also create cooler temperatures, keeping energy costs lower for the city and for residents. Come join us for a clean green event!

Native plant ecosystem services and how they can fix almost everything Speaker: Emily Brin Roberson People who think that native plants give us beautiful wildflowers plus habitat for pollinators and other wildlife are correct. However, native plants offer much more than attractive landscapes. Native plant communities also deliver ecosystem services that are essential to the health and security of human societies and economies. In recent years, ecologists and economists have documented the enormous flow of invaluable ecosystem services from plant communities.

For all those interested in plant spirit medicine, this class offers the opportunity to explore the spiritual and energetic properties of plants. Join us in deepening and re-scripting our relationship to them as living and wise beings! We will discuss properties of sacred plants used in ceremony and ritual as well as several powerful allies we can grow and harvest locally.

This Sustainability Skills Workshop focuses on various techniques for building soil fertility and the many benefits, especially on carbon sequestration, from these efforts.  This workshop will begin with an introduction to the basics of building soil fertility through soil stewardship and increasing organic matter, and include the carbon sequestering techniques of compost, mulch, holistic range management, biochar, agroforestry. We will practice hands-on building of vermi-compost bins to take home, that is suitable for non-land based apartment living.

FREE Gardening Classes 2018 & 2019 Sycamore Park Community Center Saturdays 10:00-12:00 Master Gardeners of San Juan County Info 334-9496   Oct 20, 2018- Seed I: Seeds 101 What they are, what they do, how to find them and save, store, how to clean Dec 1, 2018– Seed II: Botany of Desire More On Seeds, Microgreens & Cleaning Up the Garden Jan 19, 2019- Soil: A Garden’s Foundation Changing dirt into teaming, healthy soil. Feb 09, 2019- Settling In: Preparation & Renewal Mapping the garden, rethinking design and water use, selecting seeds and planning

This Sustainability Skills Workshop focuses on various techniques for building soil fertility and the many benefits, especially on carbon sequestration, from these efforts.  This workshop will begin with an introduction to the basics of building soil fertility through soil stewardship and increasing organic matter, and include the carbon sequestering techniques of compost, mulch, holistic range management, biochar, agroforestry. We will practice hands-on building of vermi-compost bins to take home, that is suitable for non-land based apartment living.

2019 New Mexico Organic Farming Conference February 15th 7:00am Registration 7:00am-9:00am Breakfast Break 8:00am General Welcome, Jeff Witte, Secretary of Agriculture, NMDA 9:00am-10:30am Session 1 11:00am-12:30am Session 2 12:30pm-1:45pm Lunch on your own 1:30pm Outside demos 2:00pm-3:30pm Session 3 3:00pm-4:00pm Snack Break 3:45pm-5:15pm Session 4 6:00pm-8:00pm Career Social February 16th 7:00am Registration 7:00am-9:00am Breakfast Break 7:00am Women Farmers Coffee and Network Break sponsored by NMFLB Women’s Committee 8:00am-9:30am Session 5 9:45am-11:15am Session 6 12:00pm-2:30pm Local an