Eating California! California Native Foods & Gardening w/ Antonio Sanchez

Name: Eating California! California Native Foods & Gardening w/ Antonio Sanchez
Start: 2024-05-11T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-05-11T11:30:00-07:00
Location: Growing Works Nursery, 1736 South Lewis Road, Camarillo, CA

Schedule

Sat May 11 2024 at 10:00 am to 11:30 am

UTC-07:00

Location

Growing Works Nursery, 1736 South Lewis Road, Camarillo, CA | Camarillo, CA

Join us for an informative workshop, including food tastings, covering some of the best California native plants for gardening and eating! From Mesquite Cookies to Hummingbird Sage Syrup and Cleveland Sage Pesto, this class will cover the 10 easiest native plants to begin incorporating into your diet and garden, complete with a few recipes to try on your own. Most of the plants covered in the workshop can be easily grown by most folks in and around Southern California, and all recipes are easy to follow. Led by native food enthusiast Antonio Sanchez, who was co-lead organizer of the California Native Food Symposium and California Native Sage Festival, and has led native food workshops across the state.
Antonio Sanchez is the nursery manager and restoration volunteer outreach coordinator for SAMOFund in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The nursery grows over 80,000 native plants a year for restoration purposes, and supplies over 20,000 a year to the public, free of charge, for urban restoration. Antonio has over 15 years experience with California native plants, having run the nursery at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, working as a landscaper at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and working as a nursery technician at the Theodore Payne Foundation for native plants. Antonio co-founded and ran Nopalito Native Plant Nursery in Ventura, CA, with a good friend and a cousin, for nearly 4 years. He was lead organizer for the first Ventura County Native Plant Symposium, the California Native Sage Festival, the California Native Food Symposium, and the Southern California Monarch and Milkweed Conference. He is also a co-founder of Sage Against the Machine, the greatest (and worst) native plant band in Southern California.
We are proud to support Turning Point Foundation, a local non-profit deeply committed to building a healthier community by offering compassionate and proactive treatment for adults struggling with mental illness, many of them homeless and/or veterans. Mental illness can touch anyone, regardless of their race, culture, income, age, or level of education. It affects one in four adults and one in ten children each year.