Upcoming CNPS SCV Events and Activities - January 11, 2022

[CNPS-SCV News]

Dear CNPS Santa Clara Valley members,
Check out our chapter's upcoming events:

[1] Profile of a Garden: Martial Cottle Native Plant Garden, Stephanie Morris
Wednesday, January 12, 7:30 PM
https://www.meetup.com/California-Native-Plant-Society-Santa-Clara-Valley-Chapter/events/282837802/

Community gardens can serve as native habitat havens, connecting people with plants and soil, and connecting wildlife with the spaces needed to flourish. Join us for a virtual tour of the UC Master Gardeners Native Plant Demonstration Garden at Martial Cottle Park and learn about one of the dedicated volunteers who tends this garden, Ann Finney. We hope this talk will become one of a series that profiles volunteers and community gardens.

Learn when this garden was established in San Jose and enjoy captivating photos by Hank Morales showing the plants in the garden, seasonal highlights, and wildlife. What is most rewarding for Ann as she volunteers at the garden? What are the challenges to be learned from? What are her primary maintenance activities and what aspects of the garden fuel her continued volunteering?

The garden includes a pollinator garden that is 100% California native, an area dedicated for large California native shrubs and trees, and some spaces that are combinations of native and Mediterranean plants. This talk was inspired by an in-person tour of this garden last year. It’s a place worth exploring again with our virtual audience as we also ponder: what makes a volunteer?

Stephanie Morris is a Landscape Architect with a focus on Native Plant Design. Ann Finney is a Master Gardener who volunteers at UC Master Gardeners Native Plant Demonstration Garden at Martial Cottle Park.

View talks on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/c/CNPSSantaClaraValley

[2] Habitat Restoration at Lake Cunningham
Saturday, January 15, 8:00 AM
https://www.meetup.com/California-Native-Plant-Society-Santa-Clara-Valley-Chapter/events/qvfrpsydccbtb/

VENUE: Native Garden Parking Lot

Join us to restore habitat (weeding and mulching) in the Native Garden at Lake Cunningham Park, San Jose.

We follow City of San Jose guidelines for volunteering during the pandemic: face covering and social distancing. Bring your own bucket and a weeding hoe (and knee pad, if you prefer that). Wear a face covering, hat, gloves, sturdy garden shoes. Bring plenty of fluids and hydrate often. We start with a 10-minute orientation, then walk to the site, so please be on time.

First-timers: Bring a signed waiver form available at https://lakecunninghamnativegarden.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/2020-volunteer-status-and-waiver-of-liability.pdf

First timers: please follow directions in this meetup to get to the native garden. It is a very large park (200 acres) with two entrances. You want to head to the Google map pin for "Lake Cunningham Native Garden".

Workdays are sometimes rescheduled or canceled. Always RSVP to confirm, and check the latest updates Friday night. If you can't make it, please change your RSVP so we know and wait-listers get a chance.

Here are some events from other chapters and organizations:

[3] The California Native Plant Society is seeking a Conservation Intern.
The Natalie Hopkins Conservation Intern is a temporary part-time to full-time position that will support ongoing initiatives and campaigns to increase CNPS capacity to advance the conservation of California wildlands and the species and natural communities they support. The Hopkins Intern's primary role will be to assist volunteers and program staff in advocacy related to wildfire and vegetation management by creating an annotated bibliography of peer-reviewed scientific publications. The deadline to apply is January 21, 2022.
https://californianativeplantsociety.applytojob.com/apply/uu63Q56Evk/Natalie-Hopkins-Conservation-Intern

[4] CARCD 76th Annual Conference "Communities, Collaboration, and Climate: RCDs on the Cutting-Edge of Conservation"
January 11 – February 4
https://carcd.org/conferences/2021-carcd-annual-conference/

[5] Plant Talk Panel, featuring Yerba Buena’s Susan Karasoff – PG&E
January 18, 11:30 AM
https://www.cnps.org/event/plant-talk-panel-featuring-yerba-buenas-susan-karasoff

[6] Resilient Landscaping: Gardening in the Defensible Space Zone – Milo Baker Chapter
January 18, 7:30 PM
https://www.cnps.org/event/resilient-landscaping-gardening-in-the-defensible-space-zone

Questions about any of the events? Do not reply to this email - instead, please direct your questions to: info @ cnps-scv.org.

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