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• 2022 Field Trip Series: Mitsui Ranch, Sonoma Mountain

  • When
    Saturday, May 28, 2022
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    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Mitsui Ranch, Sonoma Mountain near Petaluma
  • Spaces left
    7

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  We invite CNGA members to join Jeff Wilcox, Managing Ecologist, Sonoma Mountain Ranch Preservation Foundation, for a tour of Mitsui Ranch on Sonoma Mountain near Petaluma. 

  We’ll tour fields replanted with native grasses after prescribed fire and grazing treatments.

  
  

  Hiking Level: Easy

  Timing: 10 am to 2 pm

  Age Requirement: 18+ welcome

  Registration Fee: $25. This is a CNGA Members-Only Event. Become a member today! 

  Registration is limited to 20 people, if independent drivers, more if carpooling. To help us open this to more folks, please let us know when you register if you will be carpooling with anyone and include their name(s).

  If you plan to attend, please read these before registering: 

  What to bring:  Hat, sunscreen, water, and comfortable walking shoes or boots. Bring a sack lunch to enjoy on-site. Please leave pets at home. Gaiters, or some other weed seed protection is advised. 

  CNGA COVID-19 Safety Policy: We ask that all attendees at in-person CNGA workshops be up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccination and booster shots. Please do not attend if you test positive for COVID-19 or if you have any symptoms, even if you are vaccinated. We also ask that masks be worn when indoors or in vehicles while attending the workshops and events. These precautions will help us make these events as safe as possible for all to attend.  

  Photo Permission: By attending this event, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded, and to any use, by CNGA, of your likeness, voice, and name in any and all media including social media. If you do not want your name or photo to be used, please let us know in advance.             

  There are some access limitations, so carpooling is encouraged.       

  Photo: Prescribed fire on the Mitsui Ranch, Spring 2021. Photo by JT Wilcox                                 

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• On Demand Virtual Event: Landscaping with Nature Workshop Recordings & Materials

  • Start
    Wednesday, June 01, 2022
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    8:30 AM
  • End
    Saturday, December 31, 2022
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    2:30 PM
  • Location
    Website link sent upon confirmation of registration.

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  Landscaping with Nature: Engaging with Evolutionary Ecology in Your Native Garden 

  Recorded talks & supporting materials available on-line

  This highly acclaimed workshop from August 2020, is suitable for landscape professionals and anyone interested in maximizing habitat values in their landscaping. Expert instructors present cutting-edge methods of design, installation, management, and maintenance including site evaluation, plant selection, evolutionary interactions, habitat features, and planting best practices to create a wildlife-friendly landscape. 

  Here are the titles and instructors for the recorded presentations: 

  • Site Evaluations, Habitat Features and Species Selection when Designing with Nature - Pat Reynolds, General Manager, Hedgerow Farms, Winters
  • Living Landscapes - Designing Native Plant Gardens That Attract Wildlife and Still Look Good - Haven Kiers, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Dept. of Human Ecology, UC Davis 
  • Designing Habitats to Benefits Native Bee - Forage and Beyond - Neal Williams, Professor of Pollination Ecology, Dept. of Entomology, UC Davis
  • Maximizing Habitat for Birds and Other Wildlife Species in Landscapes - John Sterling, Ornithologist, Sterling Wildlife Biology
  • Conservation and Coevolution - Making the Case That Natives Add Value - Billy Krimmel, Miridae Landscaping Company, Sacramento

  Contact us if you have questions at admin@cnga.org.

  We hope you enjoy these presentations. 

  Sponsored by: Delta Bluegrass Co., Miridae Landscape Co., The Watershed Nursery, Hedgerow Farms, Inc. 

  Landscape photos by Saxon Holt. Bee and Clarkia photo by Pat Reynolds. 

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• On-Demand Recordings of CNGA's 14th Annual Field Day at Hedgerow Farms

  • Start
    Wednesday, June 01, 2022
  •  
    8:30 AM
  • End
    Saturday, December 31, 2022
  •  
    3:30 PM
  • Location
    Website link sent upon confirmation of registration.

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  CNGA's 14^th Annual Field Day at Hedgerow Farms

  
  Sowing the Seeds of Grassland Restoration:

  CNGA’s 30^th Anniversary Celebration

  Recordings and Materials from the Webinar Event Presented on June 11, 2021

  
  

  CNGA and Hedgerow Farms partnered for the 14^th year  to offer this opportunity to learn new perspectives on grassland restoration and practice in California’s spectacular native grasslands. In these on-demand recordings of the June 11, 2021 event, we take you through the restoration process: from wildland seed collection through farm production to tours of restored field sites. See full agenda here.

  Follow the life of a seed from wildland seed collection to farm production

  • Seed collection with Jeff Quiter, Hedgerow Farms; Tanya Meyer, Yolo Co. RCD
  • Farm production: planting harvesting, processing with Pat Reynolds, CNGA,  Bryan Young, Sacramento Regional Co. Sanitation District, Chris Rose, Solano RCD

  Seeds of restoration: Where are they now? Tour the state with virtual “show and tell” site visits and presentations

  • Vic Claassen, Soil Scientist, UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
  • Valerie Eviner, Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
  • Southern California with Robert Freese, Irvine Ranch Conservancy/Orange County Parks, Megan Lulow, UC Irvine, Collin Raff, Irvine Ranch Conservancy
  • Pepperwood Preserve, Sonoma County with Michelle Halbur, Preserve Ecologist
  • A look at a native grassland meadow for a residential landscape five years after install with Billy Krimmel, Founder and President, Miridae Landscape Architecture and Construction
  • Russell Ranch Restoration, UC Davis, Yolo County with JP Marié, Manager, UC Davis Putah Creek Marine Reserve
  • Dos Rios Ranch, with Stephen Sheppard, River Partners

  Short talks by CNGA Leaders, past and present

  • Perspectives on the past and future of grasslands conservation and restoration

  Here are a few reviews of Field Day from our attendees
  

  • I now know every step of the native grass restoration process. I learned about the importance of healthy soils, plant diversity, planting to adapt for drought, holistic grazing's effects among many things. California grasslands are great!
  • I manage a mitigation program, so I don't necessarily do restoration work myself, but it is always helpful to understand the work of my consultants. I learned some new information and pick up a ton of resource links, which I appreciate.
  • I am a PhD student studying areas relevant to restoration, so this event gave me some further ideas of topics I could do research on and potential field sites. It was also interesting to see a mix of applied and academic perspectives.
  • While I love in-person, I can't deny that there are some nice thin things about virtual, especially the site tours at far-reaching locations!

  Contact us if you have questions at admin@cnga.org

  

  Hordeum brachyantherum (meadow barley), harvested and drying before cleaning. Photo: Hedgerow Farms, Michele Ranieri. 

  Many thanks to our Sponsors!

  
  

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• On-Demand Recordings of CNGA's 13th Annual Field Day at Hedgerow Farms

  • Start
    Wednesday, June 01, 2022
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • End
    Saturday, December 31, 2022
  •  
    1:30 PM
  • Location
    Recorded Event - We will email you a link upon confirmation of your registration.

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  CNGA's 13th Annual and 1st Online Field Day at Hedgerow Farms 

  From the Ashes: Fire and Restoration
  

   Date of Original On-Line Event: July 10, 2020

  Recordings are now available for the 2020 virtual field day. Watch at your own pace the presentations and field tours amidst the beautiful scenery at Hedgerow Farms Inc. in Winters, CA. 

  Expert speakers discuss current research and best practices.

  • Valerie Eviner, Professor, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

  • Michelle Halbur, Preserve Ecologist, Pepperwood Preserve

  • Don Hankins, Professor of Geography & Planning, CA State University, Chico

  Virtual Walking tours with Andrea Williams, Andrew Fulks, Pat Reynolds, Michele Ranieri, Jim Mast, and Haven Kiers to view Hedgerow Farms’ demonstration gardens, seed barn, native plant nursery, seed cleaning mill, equipment, and production fields.

  Virtual Driving tours with Bryan Young and Chris Rose who will lead you on a virtual tour of Hedgerow Farms’ native grass and wildflower production fields and habitat areas.

  
  

  Click here for a PDF of the Agenda

  

  
  

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