BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Tijuana BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 RDATE:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD 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:20220620T193000 RDATE:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 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:186dfe97c3b0f4c80d374d86a4567e1f CATEGORIES:Native Plant Talks CREATED:20230417T193042 SUMMARY:Pollinator Restaurants & Building Community, a talk by Jennifer Dirking LOCATION:YouTube (no registration required): https://www.youtube.com/c/CNPSSantaClar aValley DESCRIPTION:Creating a Bee, Butterfly & Bird Restaurant and Building Community Alon g the Way\nIs your garden a ‘bar’ that only offers nectar to adult butterfl ies but no food for their offspring? Do the birds and bees visiting your ga rden have everything they need to raise the next generation? Learn how you can create a “Bee, Butterfly and Bird Restaurant” by growing the ‘keystone plants’ that feed your local ecosystem. In the process, you can:\n\n - Attr act more bees, butterflies and birds to your garden\n - Boost your fruit an d vegetable yields\n - Help save local species that are in decline\n - Enga ge with neighbors to build back habitat throughout your communityJoin us fo r this lively discussion as we explore opportunities to boost biodiversity in our own gardens and simple ways we can educate and engage others.\nJenni fer Dirking has been an organic gardener for over 40 years, but only recent ly transformed her garden from a food desert to a habitat oasis in her subu rban 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 nativ e gardening journey. Her simple tactics involving free wildflower seeds and promotion via social media provide a model for other individuals and organ izations that want to reach further into their communities as well. Jennife r is our Wildflower Ambassador Program Chair.\nYouTube (no registration req uired): https://www.youtube.com/c/CNPSSantaClaraValley (https://www.youtube .com/c/CNPSSantaClaraValley)\nZoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/me eting/register/tZAtcO6sqj4rEtGoDofrcuwscpFxZ-3t24Se (https://us02web.zoom.u s/meeting/register/tZAtcO6sqj4rEtGoDofrcuwscpFxZ-3t24Se)\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Creating a Bee, Butterfly & Bird Restaurant and Building Community Along the Way

Is your garden a ‘bar’ that on ly offers nectar to adult butterflies but no food for their offspring? Do t he birds and bees visiting your garden have everything they need to raise t he next generation? Learn how you can create a “Bee, Butterfly and Bird Res taurant” by growing the ‘keystone plants’ that feed your local ecosystem. I n the process, you can:

Join us for this live ly discussion as we explore opportunities to boost biodiversity in our own gardens and simple ways we can educate and engage others.

Jennifer Di rking has been an organic gardener for over 40 years, but only recently tra nsformed her garden from a food desert to a habitat oasis in her suburban S an Carlos neighborhood. Inspired by Doug Tallamy’s book Nature’s Best Hope, she has reached beyond her garden fence to develop partnerships and inspir e hundreds of others throughout the Bay Area to begin their own native gard ening journey. Her simple tactics involving free wildflower seeds and promo tion via social media provide a model for other individuals and organizatio ns that want to reach further into their communities as well. Jennifer is o ur Wildflower Ambassador Program Chair.

YouTube (no registration re quired): http s://www.youtube.com/c/CNPSSantaClaraValley

Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcO6sqj4rEtGoDofrcuws cpFxZ-3t24Se

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