Theodore Payne Foundation

California native plant nursery and nonprofit offering propagation and garden-design classes, plant sales and volunteer opportunities.

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Oct24Understanding Oaks: A Tree Walk and TalkSaturday, 1:00 PMConsulting arborist Alison Lancaster walks the Theodore Payne grounds and assesses several oaks on site, talking through drought watering, structural risk, pruning young versus mature trees, helpful and harmful insects and common diseases; bring photos and questions about your own oaks. It is part of the foundation's Oak-tober series and runs Saturday, Oct 24 from 1 to 3pm at the Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford St, Sun Valley. Registration is through Humanitix, and the listing doesn't publish a price. In November the foundation runs a seed propagation class and an Obi Kaufmann book talk.See listing
Nov13Propagating California Native Plants from SeedFriday, 9:30 AMGenevieve Arnold, who runs the foundation's seed and conservation program, teaches cool-season seed propagation of California natives, from seed biology, viability and germination cues to pretreatment, sowing and aftercare, with a tour of the seed facilities. Each participant goes home with a kit of flats, pots, plug trays, ten cool-season species, tags and a guide, plus the seeds they sowed in class. It runs Friday, Nov 13 from 9:30am to 12:30pm, partly outdoors, at the Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford St, Sun Valley; register through Humanitix, where the listing doesn't publish a price. Obi Kaufmann speaks at the foundation that afternoon.See listing
Nov13Mapping an Ecology of Mind with Obi KaufmannNov 13 – Nov 13Naturalist, painter and author Obi Kaufmann gives a roughly hour-long talk on California's landscapes and natural history to mark his book California Inside Out, followed by questions and a book sale and signing. It runs Friday, Nov 13 from 2 to 4pm at the Theodore Payne Foundation, 10459 Tuxford St, Sun Valley; registration is through Humanitix, and the listing doesn't publish a price. That morning the foundation teaches native seed propagation.See listing

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