This coming Saturday, December 9th – Lots going on…. Scroll down for more information.

Hope to see you at one of these events!!!!

Happy Holidays to you and yours,

Be Resilient !!!!

Teresa Lees – SLO Permaculture Guild

 

December 9th -

1.     City Farm SLO Holiday Work Party December 9 2017, 9am – 12noon

2.     CA Rare Fruit Growers potluck (12noon) and plant raffle (1:30pm) at PG&E Visitor’s Center

3.     Pruning Workshop at SLO Botanical Garden at 1pm

4.       Earth Resilient Workshop with Warren Brush December 6th – 10th in SLO

 

Announcing the  City Farm Holiday Work Party

December 9, 2017

 Central Coast Grown

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City Farm SLO Holiday Work Party

Preparing for the rainy season

Enjoy a nice morning workout at City Farm SLO and get into the holiday spirit with cookies and cider after preparing the farm for winter rains from 9 am to noon on Saturday, Dec. 9.

Come for part or all of this month’s community work party. Bring a friend, bring the family. Get a taste of working on a farm.

Work party chores include crop bed prepping, seeding and planting as well as clean-up, irrigation and mulching.

 Volunteers of all ages are welcome; no experience required. Tools will be provided. Bring work gloves and a water bottle. Wear protective shoes, dress for varying winter weather (cold, wet, to full sun) and enjoy a day on the farm.

Our first work party on November 9 involved preparing the ground and planting a cover crop of clover and winter rye. 

We had great fun and lots got done.  Here's the result two weeks later:

 

 

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City Farm SLO is located within the Calle Joaquin Agricultural Reserve, at 1221 Calle Joaquin in San Luis Obispo, which runs parallel to Hwy 101, between the Madonna Rd and Los Osos Valley Rd exits.

It you have questions, would like to learn more about City Farm SLO or get more involved please send an email to outreach@centralcoastgrown.org

News & events can be found on Facebook - Central Coast Grown
(805) 769-8344  - www.centralcoastgrown.org

 


Fruit Tree Pruning
Sat. December 9, 1pm-2pm
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Learn how to keep your fruit trees healthy this winter. Join Master Gardener for a lecture and demonstration. Followed at 2pm by a free docent-led tour of the Botanical Garden.

Presentation donation is $5 for members/$10 non-members

Info at slobg.org/pruining

 

 

CA Rare Fruit Growers gather for a potluck at 12noon at the PG&E Visitors Center and then have a plant raffle starting around 1:30pm.

Great place to get fruit trees and other edible plants.

 

 

And if you have the time…….

Earthworks for Farm Resilience in San Luis Obispo


With Warren Brush and Brenton Kelly


December 6-10, 2017 - This Week!
San Luis Obispo, CA


*There's a Few Spaces Left!*

In an era of drought, the need for people is growing daily with hands-on skills in hydrological restoration and the integration of farming utilizing the principles that lead to ecological stability.

Learn About Earthworks For:
-Ecological farming
-Land Restoration
-Water Harvesting
-Earth Reparation for Biological Stability

Learn To:
-Survey and create rainwater harvesting structures and storages
-Create and armor spillways
-Mitigate erosion including head-cuts
-Identifying and creating rainwater run-on opportunities
-and much more...

Whether you are working on your own landscape, farm, or as a consultant, this course will grow your skills in the appropriate design and construction of structures that will reduce erosion, increase productivity, harvest & store water, and create resiliency in the ecologies that sustain us.

 

Take your knowledge, experience and projects to the next level and register today!

Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOGf-ZYEpDAt9JCMcfzhoomVNYaa9JYhCY0F2kDQHVcOwKDQ/viewform