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Meal Prep Hands-On Cooking Workshop

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Thu., June 20, 2019
6:00pm - 9:00pm

Meal Prep makes it easy when you have ready-made delicious and healthy components at the ready to create healthy easy-to-prepare weeknight meals. We’ll prepare the basic building block base recipes in this fun and lively hands-on class. Bring your take home containers and leave with a bounty of prepped and cooked vegetables, healthy prepared grains, delicious organic chicken, blanched greens, savory legumes, two homemade sauces to round out your meals and washed and ready to use salad greens. Eating healthy has never been so easy or delicious! Learn strategies to prep once for healthy meals all week and simplify your life. The class is offered every quarter with new seasonal recipes. Class includes a light dinner.

Produce with a Purpose: Aguas Frescas for Flavorful Hydration

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Thu., June 13, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

This class is cancelled due to low enrollment. Did your doctor tell you to eat more fruit and veggies? Now what? Come to our monthly Produce with a Purpose class to learn the super-powers of fruit and veggies (for resisting cancer, diabetes, heart disease and more), enjoy a cooking demo and tasting, and boost your wellness. Take home a goodie bag of locally-grown, farm-fresh, organic produce, too. This month’s theme is aguas frescas for flavorful hydration. You know you should drink more water, especially in the summer, but it’s so much easier to maintain that good habit when your water is flavorful and gorgeous. We’ll talk a bit about the why and how of staying hydrated – some foods are a big help – and sample a colorful variety of delicious infusion waters featuring herbs and fruit.

Cooking Out of the CSA Box

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Wed., June 5, 2019
6:00pm - 7:30pm

This class is cancelled due to low enrollment. The next Cooking Out of the CSA Box class will be on Wednesday, August 28. Registration will open soon. Explore and master simple vegetarian recipes that will fill your bellies and the whole family will enjoy. Learn the nutritional benefits and a variety of techniques to cook the veggies we love. Perfect for anyone who receives a CSA box or people who are looking for new ways to cook with fresh seasonal produce. Generous samples provided.

Free Composting Workshop

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Wed., June 5, 2019
6:00pm - 7:30pm

Let’s turn our food and plant waste into something useful. Composting, or the act of breaking down organic matter, is a valuable tool for sustainable living. In this free class, we’ll discuss the basics of how to start, maintain, and harvest compost for your containers, gardens, yards, or community green spaces. This class is in partnership with Republic Services. All participants will be entered into a raffle to win prizes.

The Summer Herbal

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Tue., June 4, 2019
5:30pm - 8:30pm

Each season brings a particular set of conditions that may challenge our well-being, but which we can address with herbs, foods, and good habits. This class will address the challenges of the summer months, from staying comfortably cool and hydrated, to skin irritations and body-wide inflammation. Many techniques and recipes will be offered, along with samples of tasty herbal preparations.

Graceful Aging with Herbal & Lifestyle Wisdom

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Sat., June 22, 2019
10:00am - 1:00pm

Many times people do not know what to expect or how to maintain health as they enter their middle and elder years of life. Learn about herbs and foods that will keep your vitality, mind and spirit supported and enhanced as you age. We will discuss what it means to get older and enter into a new “room” in our life. Topics will include bone, heart and circulatory health as well as cognitive well-being.

Managing Pests

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Sat., June 15, 2019
9:00am - 12:00pm

We will review common garden pests in the Sacramento areas and how to manage them without toxic pesticides. There will be a special focus on beneficial insects. A portion of the class will be outside in the field to find and identify pests and their natural enemies on site.

Gardening with Native Plants

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Sat., May 4, 2019
1:00pm - 4:00pm

Get a hands on introduction to planting, growing, and planning your garden with native plants. There’s nothing easier to grow than the natives, but it takes just a bit more observation and knowledge to get them to thrive. Journey with me into Sacramento’s native plants and be a part of the growing number of people who contribute to the sustainability of the ecosystem in which we live.

Succulent Terrarium Workshop

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Wed., May 1, 2019
6:00pm - 8:00pm

This class is cancelled and will be rescheduled for the summer quarter. More information is coming soon. Learn about the tiny world of terrariums and design your own sweet garden of wonder in a beautiful hanging glass globe. Create a sustainable healthy little ecosystem with succulents, moss, pebbles and miniature embellishments. There will be a demonstration and hands-on help. You will take home one finished glass globe gleaming with succulents and treasures.

American River Herb Walk

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Sat., April 20, 2019
10:30am - 12:30pm

Join Candis Cantin for a fascinating herb walk on the farm and the American River Parkway. We will identify and discuss more than 25 edible and medicinal plants during this easy walk.