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Oct 31

NEXT HYBRID MEETING: November 16 -"Preserve Today, Relish Tomorrow" UCCE of San Diego Introduces UC Master Food Preservers Of San Diego County.

Unless otherwise stated, we meet the third Saturday of the month at 1:30p at San Diego Oasis in Rancho Bernardo, 17170 Bernardo Center...

Oct 1, 2017

THE REAL DIRT ON: Edna Walling: A Progressive Australian Landscape Designer

By Carol Buckley. One of Australia’s foremost garden designers was born in York, England, in 1895. Edna Margaret Walling began her love...

Aug 31, 2017

THE REAL DIRT ON: Ynés Mexía: A Short (but Impressive!) Career in Botany

By Susan Krzywicki. There seems to be no end to the fascinating characters that have contributed to our state’s botanical and...

Aug 1, 2017

THE REAL DIRT ON: Horace Mann Jr.

By Carol Buckley. Perched on a slope high above the Pacific Ocean on Kauai, 20-year-old Horace Mann Jr. collected a fern (to be named...

Jul 1, 2017

THE REAL DIRT ON: Peter Raven, Biodiversity Maven

By Susan Krzywicki. Peter Raven is the beloved American botanist and environmentalist who has advised the Pope, run the famed Missouri...

Jun 1, 2017

THE REAL DIRT ON: Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

By Carol Buckley. As a daughter of 19th century Massachusetts, Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, born in 1806, was exposed to the...

May 1, 2017

THE REAL DIRT ON: Katharine Brandegee

By Susan Krzywicki. Mary Katharine (Layne) Brandegee was born in 1844 in western Tennessee and frequently moved westward with her parents...

Apr 1, 2017

THE REAL DIRT ON: Dame Sylvia Crowe

By Carol Buckley. In these times of growing concern about land use and the need for development, the British landscape architect Dame...