Wine & Cheese Botanic Lecture Series 2013
Date: Saturday, March 23, 2013
- Saturday, August 17, 2013
Time: 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Instructor:
Location: Arbor Terrace and Blaksley Library
For its third year, the Wine and Cheese Botanic Lecture Series is bringing together some new and familiar friends for talks about our local ecology and built environment. This year’s topics will include everything from bears to fennel, sustainable building and artful landscaping, to vanishing wild lands and a pictorial history of very our own SBBG. Each lecture begins with delicious appetizers and a tasting and conversation with one of our local sponsoring vintners in the Garden’s arbor terrace. Lecture attendance is limited, so please reserve early. Consider introducing a friend to the Garden and invite them to join you at one or more of these fascinating talks.
March 23: Black Bears in the Neighborhood - Sightings and behaviors of Ursus Americanus in SoCal
Kate McCurdy, Manager Sedgwick Reserve
Sponsor: Jaffurs Wine Cellars
April 27: Green Building in Santa Barbara
Bryan Henson, President, Allen & Associates Construction and advisor and core lecturer for UCSB Extension’s Green Building and Sustainable Design Certificate program
Sponsor: Kenneth Volk Vineyard
May 25: Bracken, Fennel, & Calochortus: What Santa Cruz Island Taught Me About How Nature Works
Steve Gliessman, retired Ruth and Alfred E. Heller Professor of Agroecology in UC Santa Cruz
Sponsor: Condor’s Hope
June 29: A Big Dose of Isabelle Green
Isabelle Greene, FASLA, principal with Isabelle Greene and Associates, Inc.
Sponsor: Telegraph Brewery
July 27: A Pictorial History of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Betsy Collins, SBBG Director of Horticulture
Sponsor: Pali Wine Co.
August 17: Not in My Backyard: Risks to Wild lands When Using Invasive Plants in Landscaping
John Knapp, Director of Native Ranch, Inc., Board President of the CA Invasive Plant Council
Sponsor: Riverbench
