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Free Public Workshops

Managing Small Animal Pests

Saturday, March 25 - 10 am to noon

Veteran's Memorial Hall - (255 South Auburn, Grass Valley - parking available in back)

Please join the Master Gardeners of Nevada County as we present our free public workshop on “Managing Small Animal Pests”.

In this workshop you will learn how to:

Identify which pest you have (gopher, mole or vole)
Know the differences between all three
How to manage each pest

Cultivating Place with Jennifer Jewell - March 25 (New Date!)

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Invitations to and from the Garden: Cultivating Places & People

Presented by Jennifer Jewell

(Due to inclement weather, the March 11th presentation has been postponed until March 25th)

Date: March 25, 2023 2:00pm (New Date!!)

Location: Peace Lutheran Church, 828 W. Main Street, Grass Valley

Tickets for sale online via Eventbrite. The price is $20; space is limited, so buy your ticket early.

Come hear one of the leading national voices on the interconnectedness of gardening with the world around us - Jennifer Jewell, author and host of the national award-winning weekly public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place. This in-person presentation is the first event jointly sponsored by the Master Gardeners of Nevada County (MGNC) and our local Redbud Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS).

Gardening for Positive Change

Jennifer Jewell will explore the philosophy of Cultivating Place. This view centers on the belief that gardeners and their gardens are powerful agents for positive change in our world, addressing challenges as wide-ranging as climate change, habitat and biodiversity loss, cultural polarization, and individual and communal health and well-being.

Attendees will see the power of gardens and gardeners through a lens of invitation — invitations we recognize and accept from our gardens in our roles as gardeners, and invitations we extend to the greater world through our gardening practices.

Jennifer will walk her audience through examples of such invitations taken from interviews on her weekly program and from her books. She has authored the award-winning The Earth in Her Hands (2020) on horticultural women in leadership roles, and Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (2021), about beautiful and innovative place-based, native-plant, ecological gardens that celebrate western landscapes, with amazing photography by Caitlin Atkinson. Such resources, inspirations and invitations become blueprints guiding us in ways we can all grow our world better — and beautifully.

Jennifer’s books will be for sale, and she will do book signings after the program.

For questions, contact:

Talei Mistron, Co-Lead, Public Communication, Master Gardeners of Nevada County thmistron@gmail.com (707-477-8868), or

Chrissy Freeman, Publicity Chair, Redbud Chapter, California Native Plant Society cf@christinefreeman.net (650-393-9246)

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Jennifer Jewell was live on KVMR's Gardener's forum on March 9, 2023. The program was recorded, and available from the archive:

Access the live stream archive here.

Donations are appreciated any time for the Master Gardeners of Nevada County!

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