Sinsheimer Park Tree Planting

Title: Sinsheimer Park Tree Planting
Location: Sinsheimer Park, near the playground
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Description: Join the Sierra Student Coalition and One Cool Earth in planting 30 native live oak trees around the Sinsheimer Elementary School sports fields. Trees will provide shade, help purify the air, and block wind from the students while providing habitat for wildlife.
Start Time: 10:10
Date: 2010-10-10
End Time: 12:10

Native Tree Workshop

Title: Native Tree Workshop
Location: The Laureate School
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Description: One Cool Earth will hold a workshop where 4th and 5th graders get to know the local flora. Students will also begin planning for a future tree planting at the school, as well as set up a small native plant nursery. You must be a student/parent at the school to participate.
Date: 2010-10-08

Introduction to Native Trees

Title: Introduction to Native Trees
Location: Laureate School
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Description: One Cool Earth will hold a workshop where 4th and 5th graders get to know the local flora. Students will also begin planning for a future tree planting at the school, as well as set up a small native plant nursery. You must be a student/parent at the school to participate.
Date: 2010-10-09

Garden Matchmaking Potluck/Work Party

Title: Garden Matchmaking Potluck/Work Party
Location: Davies’ Organic Garden 5015 Jesperson Road about 3/4 mile down by three black mail boxes across from pepper tree under a pine tree, turn down the paved road, not the parallel gravel one, and drive past the windmill. Call 760-382-5164 to carpool or for more directions.
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Description: Come meet your garden-match, ask questions, work a little or just hang out and learn from a lifelong organic gardener: Phyllis Davies will offer a tour of her unique farm, demonstrating easy home composting, making raspberry beds, starting tree collards, basic fruit tree care and much much more. We will have a chance to get our hands dirty, too, helping with maintenance while we learn. Bring containers, boxes or bags to take home a few raspberry plants and heads of lettuce. Also bring a dish to share for the potluck, as well as your own utensils, cups and plates. Dress for the weather!
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-05-29
End Time: 14:00

Tree Watering at Whale Rock

Title: Tree Watering at Whale Rock
Location: Whale Rock Reservoir, Cayucos
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Description: We have partnered with the Family Care Network to hold an event at Whale Rock Reservoir, watering trees planted in January and hiking around the lake. Everyone is invited to attend.

Here’s the schedule for the day:

10:00: Meet at the Administration Building by the flag pole at Cal Poly to carpool/caravan to the site.
10:30: Meet others in Cayucos at HWY 1/Old Creek Road and head to Whale Rock
10:45 – 12:30: Water oak trees that have been recently planted (mainly canyon, island and live oaks)
12:30 – 1:00: Lunch. Snacks will be provided, but please bring a bag lunch.
1:00 – 2:00: Hike around the lake: bring a water bottle and appropriate wear.

For more information call Greg at 760-382-5164.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-06-05
End Time: 14:00

Garden Matchmaking Potluck/Work Party

Title: Garden Matchmaking Potluck/Work Party
Location: Davies’ Organic Garden 5015 Jesperson Road about 3/4 mile down by three black mail boxes across from pepper tree under a pine tree, turn down the paved road, not the parallel gravel one, and drive past the windmill. Call 760-382-5164 to carpool or for more directions.
Link out: Click here
Description: Come meet your garden-match, ask questions, work a little or just hang out and learn from a lifelong organic gardener: Phyllis Davies will offer a tour of her unique farm, demonstrating easy home composting, making raspberry beds, starting tree collards, basic fruit tree care and much much more. We will have a chance to get our hands dirty, too, helping with maintenance while we learn. Bring containers, boxes or bags to take home a few raspberry plants and heads of lettuce. Also bring a dish to share for the potluck, as well as your own utensils, cups and plates. Dress for the weather!
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-05-30
End Time: 14:00

Avila Hot Springs Tree Planting + Afterparty

Title: Avila Hot Springs Tree Planting + Afterparty
Location: Avila Hot Springs
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Description: Everyone is invited to Avila Hot Springs this Saturday between 10:30 and 1:30 to help install dozens of native trees around the campground and facilities. Your hard work will be rewarded with a free pass to the hot springs, swimming pool, and water slide to cool off or heat up afterward. Music will be provided. What to bring: personal drinking water, snacks, lunch, musical instruments, sun gear, and shovels if you have them. Grilling facilities are available for our use free of charge, so bring your charcoal and beefsteaks or veggie burgers and all the fixings.

Check out http://www.avilahotsprings.com/ for directions to the Hot Springs.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2010-05-15
End Time: 13:30

Carissa Plains Elementary Tree Planting

Title: Carissa Plains Elementary Tree Planting
Location: Carissa Plains
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Description: This years activities at Carissa Plains Elementary School will conclude with a tree planting on school grounds. Leftover trees from the student nursery will be distributed among the students to willing homes or utilized in OCE’s countywide projects.
Start Time: 12:30
Date: 2010-05-21
End Time: 13:30

Cuesta College Tree Planting

Title: Cuesta College Tree Planting
Location: Cuesta College, Pennington Creek
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Description: We will meet at Pennington Creek to finish the initial phase of our restoration efforts at the site with our native California Sycamore plantings. Please join us with appropriate clothing for the work and weather. Tools, trees, good times provided. Bring your own water and snacks.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2010-05-02
End Time: 13:30

Atascadero Lake Tree Planting, Atascadero

Lionel and I were excited to hear from Cory Meyer and the North County Earth Day organizers early in the 2010 that a tree planting was scheduled for the April 18th celebration at Atascadero Lake Park.  The planting would be a double celebration, promoting both Earth Day and Arbor Day.  We’d discussed the site as a possibility over the years but somehow never had the right contacts to make it happen.  With a newly formed partnership between One Cool Earth, the Atascadero Parks and Recreation Department, the California Conservation Corp and the Atascadero High School Green Club we had the right mix of permissions, material support, muscle and followup to realize this great improvement to the park and community.  One Cool Earth provided madrone trees, tools, and time while Parks and Recreation provided valley oaks, caging, and tools and did the background work, verifying that neighbors wouldn’t lose their much loved view of the lake.  The CCC and Green Club put their backs into the planting and the Green Club adopted the watering of the trees for the first two years.  At the end of the three hours we had 20 brand new trees for the park.

Trees around the border of the lake provide many of the usual benefits that trees bring, such as carbon sequestration, habitat improvement, erosion mitigation and beautification.  However, next to Atascadero lake, the trees would shade the water, lowering water temperatures and potentially reducing the loss of oxygen from the lake, which can cause it to smell bad.  Tree roots would also reduce eutrophication by absorbing excess nutrients from the lake waters.

Stay tuned, future plantings are planned!

Work History:

April 18th, 2010 – Initial planting of 20 trees

Project Status: ongoing…

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