February 7th, 2010 | 
Author: Preservation Napa Valley
invites YOU to PRESERVATION AND A PINT!
Four convivial gatherings, held in popular local, historic settings, presenting forums of speakers and audiences talking about what’s happening in Napa—from sustainability issues to valley identity, ag, cultural resource conservation, growth and development trends and more. Come and raise a pint to the preservation-conservation issues of the day! Snacks will be served with beer generously provided by Silverado Brewing Company. FREE to the public—all are welcome.
Thursday, February 18, 6:00-7:30pm
Got Balance? – What else could, and perhaps should, thrive within our viniferous rows? More food production, heritage conservation, or the arts?
Panel: John Ahman, cattleman; Kellie Anderson, State Parks; David/Nancy Garden, The White Barn; Ted Hall, Long Meadow Ranch; Lee Hudson, Hudson Vineyards; Dave Whitmer, Napa County Ag Commissioner, others tba
Silverado Brewing Company – 3020 St Helena Hwy, St Helena
Thursday, May 6, 6:00-7:30pm
Transformation: Napa in the Midst – Who is Napa and what will this town become?
Panel: Amelia Ceja, Ceja Vineyards; John Harrington, Harrington Investments, Inc; Bob Massaro, Healthy Buildings; Peter Mott, City of Napa Council Member; Keith Rogal, Rogal+Walsh+Mol, others tba
Fagiani Building – 813 Main Street, Napa
Thursday, July 15, 6:00-7:30pm
Pope Valley as a Blank Canvas – If Pope Valley is what Napa was 50 years ago, what should this east valley be in the next 50 years?
Panel: Joe Calizo, Pope Valley historian and icon; William Hardin, cattleman; Sally Kimsey, Valley Vet; Jeffrey Parardy, businessowner, others tba
Pope Valley Farm Center – 5700 Pope Chiles Road, Pope Valley
Thursday, November 4, 6:00-7:30pm
Luxury on the Line: Agricultural Heritage vs the New Economic Wave – When the green gives way to the concrete.
Panel:Keith Caldwell, Napa County Supervisor, Sandy Elles, Napa County Farm Bureau; Jeff Redding, Land Use Planners, Kevin Teague, Dickenson, Peatman and Fogerty: Lin Weber, Napa historian; others tba
The Rutherford Grange– 8550 St Helena Hwy, Rutherford
Events are free, highly informative and not to be missed!
For more information: info@preservationnapavalley.org • 707-258-9286
Napa Green Drinks, December 2
Hi all, please note: Green Drinks will be meeting at a new location this month, Uva Trattoria, just off of Main St. in downtown Napa. Appetizers will be provided courtesy of Healthy Buildings.
Event details:
• Date: Wednesday, December 2
• Time: 5~7 PM
• Location: Uva Trattoria, 1040 Clinton St. at Brown St., in downtown Napa
• Website: http://www.uvatrattoria.com
• Phone: (707) 255-6646
For questions more information, please visit www.NapaGreenDrinks.org
Bring: Friends, family, business cards, questions, answers
Napa Green Drinks
Title: Napa Green Drinks
Location: Downtown Joe’s, 902 Main Street, Napa, CA 94559
Link out: Click here
Description: A monthly gathering for people interested in, working in, interested in working in, sustainability-related fields and activities.
Bring: Friends, family, business cards, questions, answers
Start Time: 5:00 pm
Date: 2009-09-01
End Time: 7:00 pm
Napa Valley Adult Ed offers Sustainable Gardening Class
Learn how to sustainably manage your garden from the ground up. This four week session will review basic organic gardening methods that will teach you how to compost, conserve water, grown your own food, and create wildlife habitat. This is a hands-on, interactive class taught in the gardens of Connolly Ranch.
9/8 – 9/29 5:00-7:00 pm $80
Register online at www.adulted.nvusd.k12.ca.us
Really Really Free Market
Title: Really Really Free Market
Location: Veterans Park, Napa
Link out: Click here
Description: Napa has a Really Really Free Market, July 26 at noon, Veterans Park
The Really Really Free Market is an example of a gift economy, where people freely give what they are able to and are able to freely take what is offered, with no supervision or requirements. It is the last Sunday of every month in Napa. Meet at Vets park at 12pm on Main Street. Give what you can, take what you need!
The Really Really Free Market also isn\’t only about the exchange of goods, but can also be about the exchange of knowledge. At the hosting of the event in Buffalo, someone brought a truck full of old broken bikes, and someone else went home to get their tools and fix them to distribute them to some people in the neighborhood, mostly kids. At one of these events in Portland, Oregon, someone taught a group of people how to weave baskets using grass from the park where the event was held.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2009-07-26
Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety
This article is from the San Francisco Chronicle. It’s so horrifying and depressing, I didn’t even want to look at it again so I could post it.
Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides.
“I was driving by a field where a squirrel fed off the end of the field, and so 30 feet in we had to destroy the crop,” he said. “On one field where a deer walked through, didn’t eat anything, just walked through and you could see the tracks, we had to take out 30 feet on each side of the tracks and annihilate the crop.”
Read the full article.
Napa County Food System Study is Released
Food system analyst, and Napa resident, Joanna Winter has posted online her recent paper titled Comprehensive Planning for the Napa County Food System: A Preliminary Study of Problems and Possibilities. The paper was her final project for her Master of Regional Planning degree at Cornell University.
She chose to analyze the condition of the Napa County’s food system because of the “increasing understanding of the role that the food system plays in health, the environment, social justice and the economy, and the existing lack of holistic planning for this issue.”
In the paper, she shows:
- Napa County shares national problems of obesity, lack of food knowledge, food insecurity and contribution to global climate change and other environmental problems.
- There are a significant range of advocates and resources for the individual concerns that are affected by the food system.
- The benefits of bringing these stakeholders together in a participatory process to further assess and address the food system.
Her paper closes with suggested strategies and models for bringing all interested parties together to address the issues.
Both the executive summary and the full report can be downloaded at Winter’s website Recipe for Sustainability.
Napa Green Drinks – July 7
Title: Napa Green Drinks – July 7
Location: Downtown Joe\’s, Napa
Link out: Click here
Description: The topic of the season is local food. If you’re working in this area, or want to get involved, please join us.
Bring: Friends, family, business cards, questions, answers
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2009-07-07
End Time: 19:00
Napa Bike Coalition Car Free Challenge
Napa Community Garden is Here!
The day has arrived – the Napa Community Garden is opening the plots to the gardeners for summer vegetables and planning into winter! On Monday, June 8 and Tuesday, June 9, people can pick their garden plots and get started.
Yvonne Rasmussen, from UC Extension Master Gardeners, will be available to talk about summer vegetable planting and looking ahead to the winter gardens.
Michael Christophel and Wendy Ward, the garden’s irrigation experts, will be demonstrating the irrigation system.
Elizabeth Wroblicka, the garden’s President, will be on hand to talk about garden memberships and help with plot assignments.
The garden is located at the southwest corner of Jefferson and Trower in Napa.
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