Staff

In this workshop, Desmond Murray (Presidio Nursery Community Coordinator & Longtime Bay Area Gardener), Rebecca Blanck-Weiss (Nursery Manager & Landscape Designer) and Will Schell (Nursery Intern) will emphasize natural pruning techniques, fertilizing, pest care, and water management for California native plants. Tools and gloves for the hands-on portion will be provided.

Come learn about invertebrates living in the Redwood Creek near Muir Beach and help with this community-science invertebrate count!

If it‰ЫЄs been way too long since that high school biology class, come join Annette Russell (Presidio Nursery Manager) to learn the basics of plant biology!

Join the Nature Journal Club for a 1.5 hour workshop to learn how to mix watercolors to get the colors you want...and also learn that exact color matching is not as big a deal as most people think it is!

Michael ChassМ© (Natural Resources Manager for the Park) will share the story of how San Francisco's rare endemic manzanitas were once thought to be lost forever, only to be rediscovered and brought back from the brink of extinction. Come learn about the current efforts by park staff are restoring populations of these species to the San Francisco landscape.

Join the talented team of Maria Alvarez (Restoration Ecologist), Chrissy Sullivan (Natural Resource Specialist), John Anderson (Restoration Technician), and Patrick Nicholson (Seasonal Restoration Technician) for a Park Academy class on the identification of grass species‰ЫУespecially those within our parks!

Let‰ЫЄs reinvent the wheel in this hands on color mixing workshop. If you learned that red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors you have been sold a bill of goods that is guaranteed to make muddy colors! Learn a better color triad that will help you easily mix the colors you want when you want 'em.

Brian Hildebidle (Presidio Trust; Natural Resources Stewardship Coordinator) will lead this all-day field workshop on the different techniques involved in using willows for restoring riparian zones.

This next class in the Botany Series will delve into how to use taxonomic keys to identify plants. Taking the Plant Terminology class is strongly recommended before taking this class. This class will be taught by Brett Stevenson (Ecological Restoration Coordinator), Esperanza Pimentel (Biological Science Technician) and Stacy Jacobsen (Seed Collection Ecologist for Presidio Nursery).

Join the Nature Journal Club for a 1.5 hour workshop to learn how to quickly (and accurately) fill in the details of brids after sketching the basic form (the topic of last month's workshop). This will be a fun draw along lecture so bring your sketchbook and pencils!