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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hi all:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Free, 1 hour tours</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> of the Turlock Community Gardens (TCG) during spring semester for all CSUS
<u>students, faculty, staff, and alumns</u>. Consider bringing your class out to the comm garden so they can learn about community gardens, organic gardening, composting, drip irrigation, and sustainable urban agriculture. Registration is required here:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/csustours">https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/csustours</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Free conference on community and school gardens, Sat March 5 at the Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock. Topics: community and school gardens, food waste and composting, organic gardening, urban green
space, biodiversity, and urban agriculture as part of the solution to the climate crisis. All welcome! Conference is limited to
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">100 </span></em>people. Registration is
<u>required</u></span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">:</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/conference">https://www.turlockcommunitygardens.org/conference</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">9:00 AM - 9:15 AM, Welcome & Introduction, Dr. Julia Sankey (CSUS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">9:15 AM - 9:45 AM, Honorary Guest Speaker, Dr. Tyler Schafer (CSUS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">9:45 AM - 10:00 AM, Guest Speaker, Dr. Rebeca Ryals (UC Merced)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">10:00 AM - 10:15 AM, Anne Schellman, UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardener Program: Protecting Pollinators<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">10:15 AM - 10:30 AM, Break for Refreshments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">10:30 AM - 10:45 AM, Guest Speaker, TBA
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">10:45 AM - 11:00 AM, Mapping Community Gardens in Turlock, Jordan Hoffman (CSUS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">11:15 AM-11:30AM, Importance of School Gardens, Alex Tagge (CSUS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">11:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Importance of Urban Agriculture, Dr. Julia Sankey (CSUS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Break for Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Small Group Discussion & Brainstorming Session<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">1:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Field Trip to Local School & Community Gardens: Julien Elementary, Turlock Unified School District Farm, and Turlock Community Gardens
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">If you have any questions or want to help out, please email co-host, Alex Tagge:
<a href="mailto:atagge@csustan.edu"><span style="color:black">atagge@csustan.edu</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Julia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Julia T. Sankey, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor, Paleobiology/Geology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sustainability Faculty Fellow, Council for Sustainable Futures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">209-667-3090; </span><a href="mailto:JSankey@csustan.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">JSankey@csustan.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.csustan.edu/geology/sankey"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.csustan.edu/geology/sankey</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#464646">Turlock Community Gardens:</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TurlockCommunityGardens"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.facebook.com/TurlockCommunityGardens</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#464646"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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