The
Epicurean Kitchen Garden II
This 6-week class covers the principles
and plants of the enhanced edible garden with emphasis on
kitchen uses and the gourmet taste. Class includes growing
fruits, vegetables and other edibles for the real cook’s
kitchen. In this second session of Epicurean Kitchen an
updated look at our newer favorite restaurant cuisines with
their key fruits and vegetables. Create a garden of
ingredients for Cajun-Creole, Caribbean, Indian, Middle
Eastern dishes and more. Students receive hundreds of
original recipes to allow for “sampling” at the end of each
class.
Instructor:
Joseph Seals
6 Thur,
Aug 21 - Sep 25;
9am-12pm
Course# 102OD.308; Fee: $85
San Luis Obispo Campus -
Room 4720
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Online
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Landscape
Design II - Design & Style
This
second class of Landscape Design also works as an
independent class. The importance of design principles,
hardscape materials and selection, landscape styles, working
with colors and textures, renovation, and more will all be
discussed, Landscape Design II is for any homeowner who
wants to design their own landscape. A review of Landscape
Design I will get new students on track from the beginning.
Instructor:
Joseph Seals
6 Thur,
Aug 21 - Sep 25;
1-4pm
Course# 103OD.308; Fee: $85
San Luis Obispo Campus -
Room 4720
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Online
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Backstage Tour of the Fresno Zoo
This field
trip begins with a short slide lecture discussing the care
of animals in a zoo environment and the important role of
zoos and aquaria in public education and wildlife
conservation.
Participants will then be taken on a guided tour of the
Fresno Chaffee Zoo, starting with the outdoors Winged
Wonders Bird Show, then meeting and talking with animal
keepers giving a "backstage" tour to the feeding compound,
veterinary hospital, and the world-renowned reptile house,
one of the finest in any accredited zoo in the
country. Reptiles are housed in computerized cages imitating
natural habitats, with seasonally changing day/night light
cycles, temperature controls, and varying humidity
conditions. The Fresno Zoo Reptile House has a reputation
for the successful captive breeding of many endangered
amphibian and reptile species from around the world.
Following the guided
backstage tour there will be time for a walk around the rest
of the zoo grounds, including the Sunda Forest exhibit with
orangutans and gibbons, walk-in bird aviaries, and the
Safari Trading Co. Gift Shop.
This outdoor class is weather permitting.
Participants need to
bring $11 for Fresno Zoo entrance fee, sack lunch (or
purchase lunch at the café on the zoo grounds).
Van transportation included.
A daily parking
permit will be needed for your vehicle on campus for the day
during the field trip.
www.fresnochafeezoo.com
Instructor:
Steve Schubert
Sat, Sep 13;
8-9am - Classroom Meeting/Slide Lecture
9am-8pm - Field Trip to the Fresno Zoo
Course# 104OD.308; Fee: $75
San Luis Obispo Campus -
Room 4760
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Central
Coast Gardening
These 6-week classes
are two of
four throughout the year that covers the philosophies,
practices and plants for gardens on the Central Coast,
organized in a seasonal manner.
The Fall class
covers
fall-planted bulbs, native plants,
perennials and the best trees.
NOTE: Room Change
Instructor:
Joseph Seals
6 Wed,
Sep 17 - Oct 22;
1-4pm
Course# 101OD.308; Fee: $92
San Luis Obispo Campus -
Room 4710
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Online
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Natural
History of the Big Sur Coast & Big Creek Reserve
Travel up
Highway 1 along the rugged Big Sur coastline into the Santa
Lucia Mountains to Big Creek Preserve which is part of the
University of California Reserve System and open to
researchers and educational groups only. Have lunch at
Redwood Camp. Hike the Interpretive Loop trail through shady
redwood forests, along rushing mountain streams, and onto
the higher slopes of open grassland and oak woodland
habitats, with spectacular views of high ridge tops, deep
canyons and the Pacific Ocean far below. Strenuous hiking,
with elevation gain of 1,000+ feet. We will be birding,
botanizing, and discussing the local geology. Stop for
dinner at Ragged Point on the return trip.
Bring lunch
and money for dinner, water, snacks, binoculars, field
guides, and dress warm in layers. Van
transportation provided.
Class is weather permitting. A
daily parking permit will be needed for your vehicle on
campus for the day during the field trip.
Instructor:
Steve Schubert
Sat, Oct 18;
8-9am - Classroom Meeting/Slide Lecture
9am-8pm - Field Trip to the Big Creek Reserve
Course# 105OD.308; Fee: $75
San Luis Obispo Campus -
Room 4760
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Online
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Birding the Morro Bay Estuary
Identify over 70 species of migratory,
wintering and year long resident birds. Learn to recognize
many birds by sight and sound. At popular birding areas in
diverse habitats within the Morro Bay watershed, students
will observe passerine perching birds; shore birds such as
sandpipers and plovers, water birds including ducks, geese,
loons, grebes, gulls, pelicans and cormorants; long-legged
waders such as herons and egrets; and hunting overhead the
birds of prey. Morro Bay's salt
marsh, mudflats, estuary, beach, dunes and associated upland
watershed are recognized as vital feeding and resting
habitats for thousands of birds migrating along the Pacific
Flyway, from as far away as the arctic tundra in the north
to the neotropical rain forests in the south. The annual
Morro Bay Christmas Bird Count ranks in the highest 10
counts in North America for the numbers of bird species
found. Class is weather permitting. Van
transportation provided.
Bring a sack lunch, water, binoculars, and birding field
guides (optional).
Instructor:
Steve Schubert
Sat, Nov 15;
8-9:30am - Classroom Orientation
9:30am-4pm - Field Trip to the Morro Bay Estuary
Course# 106OD.308; Fee: $44
San Luis Obispo Campus -
Room 4710
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Online
This class can be taken by itself or in the series below.
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Birding
on the Central Coast Series
(includes Birding the Morro Bay Estuary class above)
This series includes a mandatory
orientation meeting and both field trips. (Birding the Morro
Bay Estuary can be taken alone, but Birding on
the Point Buchon Trail is only an
option included in this series.)
Classes are weather permitting.
The orientation meeting is scheduled
Sat, Nov 15 from 8–9:30am on the SLO Cuesta Campus, Room
4710, followed by the field trip to the Morro Bay Estuary
from 9:30am-4pm on Saturday and the field trip to the Point
Buchon Trail from 9am-12pm on Sunday.
Birding the
Morro Bay Estuary Field Trip: (Sat, Nov 15, 9:30am-4pm)
Identify over 70 species of
migratory, wintering and year long resident birds. Learn to
recognize many birds by sight and sound. At popular birding
areas in diverse habitats within the Morro Bay watershed,
students will observe passerine perching birds; shore birds
such as sandpipers and plovers, water birds including ducks,
geese, loons, grebes, gulls, pelicans and cormorants;
long-legged waders such as herons and egrets; and hunting
overhead the birds of prey. Van
transportation provided.
WEATHER
POLICY: