BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Tijuana BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 RDATE:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 RDATE:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 RDATE:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 RDATE:20270314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271107T010000 RDATE:20280312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230402T180000 RDATE:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 RDATE:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 RDATE:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RDATE:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270314T030000 RDATE:20271107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4df22fa17092842fbf5c53d9e83aac8c CATEGORIES:Native Plant Talks CREATED:20240229T054044 SUMMARY:Ten Easy Steps to Creating a Bird- Friendly Garden, a talk by Jennifer Dirking LOCATION:Half Moon Bay Library\, 620 Correas St.\, Half Moon Bay DESCRIPTION:There are few things more rewarding than drawing birds to your garden and p roviding all the elements they need to survive and raise their young. For m any gardeners, just a few simple changes can make all the difference. In th is talk, we’ll take a look at gardening from a bird’s perspective and then delve into the ten elements that can transform your garden into a bird para dise. Attendees will receive a free packet of California native wildflowers that benefit birds that they can try out in their own gardens.\nJennifer D irking has been an organic gardener for over 40 years, but only recently tr ansformed her garden from a food desert to a habitat oasis in her suburban San Carlos neighborhood. Inspired by Doug Tallamy’s book Nature’s Best Hope , she has reached beyond her garden fence to develop partnerships and inspi re hundreds of others throughout the Bay Area to begin their own native gar dening journey. Her simple tactics involving free wildflower seeds and prom otion via social media provide a model for other individuals and organizati ons that want to reach further into their communities as well. She is curre ntly the Chair of the Wildflower Ambassador program at our CNPS Chapter.\nJ ennifer also manages the Native Plant Resource Teams’ Pollinator Pathways G roup, a program of the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour. You can visit Jennifer’s garden on the Growing Natives Garden Tour on Saturday, April 13 . Register for the tour at gngt.org (gngt.org).\n   X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

There are few things more rewarding than drawing birds to your garden and providing all the elements they need to survive and raise their young. For many gardeners, just a few simple changes can make all the difference. In this talk, we’ll take a look at gardening from a bird’s perspective and then delve into the ten elements that can transform your garden into a bird paradise. Attendees will receive a free packet of California native wildfl owers that benefit birds that they can try out in their own gardens.

Jennifer Dirking has been an organic gardener for o ver 40 years, but only recently transformed her garden from a food desert t o a habitat oasis in her suburban San Carlos neighborhood. Inspired by Doug Tallamy’s book Nature’s Best Hope, she has reached beyond her garden fence to develop partnerships and inspire hundreds of others throughout the Bay Area to begin their own native gardening journey. Her simple tactics i nvolving free wildflower seeds and promotion via social media provide a mod el for other individuals and organizations that want to reach further into their communities as well. She is currently the Chair of the Wildflower Amb assador program at our CNPS Chapter.

Jennifer also manages the Native Plant Resource Teams’ Pollinator Pathways Group, a program of the Bringing  Back the Natives Garden Tour. You can visit Jennifer’s garden on the Growing Natives Garden Tour on Saturday, April 13. Register for the tour at gngt.org.

 
 
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