Container Vegetable Gardening
Growing vegetables and herbs in containers is both challenging and rewarding. The challenges of variety selection, soil preparation, irrigation, past management, and growing from seeds and starts will be covered. Learn how to assess your container site (deck, patio, walkway, window), your container sizes, and your access to sunlight and water to plan, establish and enjoy a container vegetable garden for your apartment or condo.
Joe Jennings is a Marin Master Gardener who grows vegetables year- round in his home garden. He graduated from Whitman College and earned an MBA from the University of Washington.
This free program meets every 3rd Saturday of the month from 10 am – 12 noon.
We are so fortunate to have members of the Marin Knitters Guild to lead our monthly knitting circle.
All are welcome! New knitters- come to learn. Experienced knitters- come to seek or offer help. Skilled knitters- come to support others or just work on a project while enjoying the company of fellow knitters.
Drop-in, no sign-ups required. Please bring your own knitting supplies and tools. Minimum supplies will be available.
Find more information about the Marin Knitters Guild at www.marinknittersguild.org or their Facebook page. Members of the Guild have entered the County Fair regularly since about 2008, and have won quite a few ribbons and “Best of Show”s.
The Next Chapter – YWCA: A Conversation on Social Justice & the 50+ Program
Friday, June 22 from 2:00 – 3:00 pm in the Library Meeting room
Bette Gundersheim will facilitate a conversation about identity, inclusion, and equity that focuses on where we realistically are and what it would take to really change. Topics include developing new language on intercultural competency and becoming comfortable speaking about diversity, inclusion, and equity. Laura Eberly will present the YWCA’s 50+ program, which is a free employment training and job placement service for mature women who are ready to get back into the workforce.
Foods and Nutrients are powerful tools to Strengthen the Body and Clarify the Mind.
Join Certified Clinical Nutritionist Leni Felton to learn about the underpinnings of cognitive decline, dementia, and Alzheimer’s.
The tide has turned: we are now in the “Era of Treatable Alzheimer’s.” Beginning in 2014, researchers led by Dale Bredesen, MD (formerly of the Buck Institute) developed, implemented and published results on their program to reverse cognitive decline. Despite this, just a few miles down the road in San Rafael, many people remain unaware of these discoveries.
Attendees at this San Rafael Library program will learn key steps you can implement daily to age with clarity and vitality. If you or a loved one is already experiencing cognitive decline, you’ll learn how a comprehensive program can successfully reverse its course.
Leni Felton is a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, specializing in nutrition and natural therapies and healthy living practices for those who seek to optimize their health, and those with chronic health issues. She has been in practice since 1995, consulting with individuals at her office in San Ramon and making house calls where she resides in Marin and throughout the Bay Area.
Unraveling the Mystery of Growing Garlic and Onions!
Shop in a market and you may find one or two kinds of garlic or onions. But if you grow your own alliums you open the door to new flavors, shapes, colors and culinary uses of these savory vegetables. We’ll discuss the best cultural practices for growing these cool season gems in your garden and how keep them for months. Speakers: Jenine Stilson and Laura Colvin. CE: 1 CE unit.
In 1848—a year of political revolution across Europe—seven young Englishmen formed an artistic alliance aspiring to rebel against the contemporary Victorian art world. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, defied idealized figures popularized by Raphael and other High Renaissance artists to reflect the simplicity, spirituality, and beauty they found in late medieval and early Renaissance art.
Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major exhibition to juxtapose examples by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with works that inspired its members, including Italian old masters Fra Angelico and Pietro Perugino and their northern contemporaries Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling. It reveals how the Brotherhood’s aesthetic evolved over time to embrace artistic influences from the High and late Renaissance, such as Titian and Veronese. It also offers a rich multimedia opportunity to examine the artists’ attraction to stained glass, domestic decorations, and sixteenth-century textiles.
Docent Speaker: Alfred Escoffier, former City Librarian at Burlingame Public Library, undergraduate degree in Art History from Stanford University.
This exhibition, at the Legion of Honor, runs from June 30, 2018 – September 30, 2018
Salon Doré from the Hôtel de la Trémoille, Paris, ca. 1781. Gilt and painted wood, plaster, stone, and mercury-gilded glass. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Rheem, 1959.123.2
Elegant Excess An Afternoon in 18th Century Paris From the salon to the shops, the couturier’s to the courtiers, 18th-century Paris was all about high fashion and high living.
Parisian salons were known for their conviviality and conversation in the 18th Century, but there were strict guidelines about who could attend, what they could talk about, what they could expect and what was expected of them. Join us for an afternoon in the Salon Dore as we explore the mores and manners that dominated the decade prior to the French Revolution.
Over 500 species of birds have been seen in Marin County, and you can see some of them just by looking out your backyard windows. It’s easy, interesting and a lot of fun doing backyard birding, and Marin Master Gardener Bob Mauceli will help you learn more about some of the most frequently seen of these backyard birds. He’ll also give you some pointers on how to make these birds easier to see by building a simple, sustainable bird-friendly habitat in your backyard.
Bob Mauceli has been a Master Gardener for almost 13 years, and a birder for over 40. He and his wife find some of their most satisfying birding in their current backyard, which has a ‘yard list’ of 75 species; they have built bird-friendly backyard habitats in the 11 homes in which they’ve lived together.
This SparkPoint workshop focuses on the fundamentals of managing cash flow and identifying cost savings to create a spending plan.
Distinguishing wants from needs
Tracking personal financial information
Accessing resources to maximize existing income
Finding how Social Security fits into your overall financial plans
Marvin Brook, experienced SparkPoint volunteer, served as the financial controller of the USPS in Northern California for 15 years. He now introduces financial literacy awareness through a variety of community programs.
The Friends are having a general sale with a huge children’s section, lots of cooking and history, poetry, travel, needle arts, fiction, everything one looks for in a book sale plus a selection of oldies, CDs and DVDs. Come stock up on reading for the whole family at great prices!
Friday, March 16: Member Preview – 12:00 to 1:00 (become a member at the door) Public: 1:00 to 4:30
REVERSING COGNITIVE DECLINE
Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major exhibition to juxtapose examples by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with works that inspired its members, including Italian old masters Fra Angelico and Pietro Perugino and their northern contemporaries Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling. It reveals how the Brotherhood’s aesthetic evolved over time to embrace artistic influences from the High and late Renaissance, such as Titian and Veronese. It also offers a rich multimedia opportunity to examine the artists’ attraction to stained glass, domestic decorations, and sixteenth-century textiles.
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