Do you want to get the most out of your yard? Are you thinking of adding fruit trees, or do you want to take better care of the ones you have? This class is for you!



This full-day workshop will offer a comprehensive look at caring for your backyard orchard. Participants will learn basic tree identification, nursery specimen selection, desirable structure for mature trees, how to train young trees, pruning techniques, when in the year to prune each species, and how to diagnose and treat the most common conditions affecting orchards. Integrated pest management strategies will be covered, with a focus on preserving beneficial insects.



We’ll evaluate tree placement in the yard and discuss strategies for effective irrigation and fertilization. Participants are encouraged to come with pictures of their trees or drawings of their yards as examples to analyze. A large portion of the day will be hands-on practice doing structural pruning on fruit trees. Species discussed may include apples, plums, citrus, olive, pomegranate, fig, apricot, persimmon and almond.



Please bring hand pruners and a wood saw if available; instructor has extras if necessary.



This class is taught by Molly Bolt, a licensed arborist and certified horticulturist. She has a pruning business that focuses on orchard management and has worked as a landscaper, nursery manager and soil nutrition instructor. She believes that one key to sustainability is local food security and wants to help people turn their backyards into kitchen gardens. Many of her trimmings are fed to her dairy goats.

This class will meet from 10am-4pm in Napa
Two sessions available: Saturday March 6, 2010 and Saturday March 20, 2010.

Class size is limited to ensure personal attention.

Cost per attendee is $30-60, sliding scale.
Registration is handled ahead of the workshop event day.

Please bring a bag lunch for mid-day.

For more info on this class, please call Molly at 510 842 6058 or email her at mollybdenum@gmail.com.

Or Jean Wheeler at Main Street Trees 707-257-2783
or email Jean@MainStreetTrees.com to register in advance for the class either March 6th or 20th.

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Who?
Napa Valley CanDo is a diverse group of over 500 Napans committed to bettering our community through a network that fosters service, advocacy and social connections. We welcome interested first-timers.

What?
1st Annual Gathering and Planning Session – Napa Valley CanDo

We’re celebrating our accomplishments since our founding a year ago and planning our next steps to make CanDo even more vital to the Napa Community. Whether you’re already a CanDo member or someone just interested in knowing more about community service in the Valley, come have a listen and share your thoughts.

Where?
First United Methodist Church, 625 Randolph Street in Napa

When?
Saturday, March 20, 9:30 am to noon.

RSVP: Email us at nvcando@gmail.com
FFI: 252-7743 or 480-0719

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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

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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

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Bring: Friends, family, business cards, questions, answers
Start Time: 5:00 pm
Date: 2009-09-01
End Time: 7:00 pm

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9/8 – 9/29 5:00-7:00 pm $80
Register online at www.adulted.nvusd.k12.ca.us

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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

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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.

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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.

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Bring: Friends, family, business cards, questions, answers

Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2009-07-07
End Time: 19:00

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