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Upbeat in Santa Rosa, New Mexico!


Summer GUIDE #2


Benefit Dinner And Concert For Nepal Earthquake Relief


SANTA ROSA, CA. ~ Benefit Dinner and Concert for Nepal Earthquake relief on July 19 at 5pm at Gaia’s Garden café at 1899 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa. Tickets: $35 includes Dinner, Concert and donation. Performers: The Serendipity Trio:


Rabbi Mordecai Miller


and Paul Alexander clarinets Beverly McChesney bassoon. Dinner music by guitarist Gor- don Rowland.


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Kim Childers of Santa Rosa, California in Santa Rosa, New Mexico taking a moment with the May 2015 Upbeat Times!


serve yourself plant based full dinner buffet, including special dishes by Chef Iwaca. For More Information call Paul Alexander @ (707) 762-1070 or e-mail: jubileeklezmer@gmail.com


Warrington, OREGON: Elk July in the Garden ... continued from page 12


Milkweed (Asclepius), an im- portant food source for Monarch caterpillars, is a way to start. You can call the Live Mon-


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arch Foundation at 1-877-722- 8624 and visit their amazing, educational website at www. LiveMonarch.com for more in- formation. They offer butterfly kits, milkweed seeds and more. If you’re feeling generous you can also make a donation! A butterfly garden is visually spectacular with all the flitting beauties collecting pollen and nectar. In your own garden you might plant hollyhock, mallow, aster, Queen Anne’s lace, co- reopsis, salvia, Echinacea and many more as well as order- ing packets of special butterfly garden seeds.


Bennett Valley


Gardens, Harmony Farms and King’s Nursery offer packets of special butterfly mixes and plants that attract butterflies and other pollinators. They are always happy to help! You can also order butterfly kits on line, which are perfect for kids and adults alike. There are large and small butterfly gardens to visit here and elsewhere. Explore the web and make visiting a butterfly garden/s part of your summer getaway plan, like the 10,000 square feet ‘Butterfly Wonderland’ in Scottsdale Ari- zona, butterflywonderland.com You decide! There is always something


to explore and discover in the garden. Let your horticultur- al imaginings run wild. Get friends and children involved! It’s a ‘Monarch Movement’ a ‘Butterfly Brigade’. We need to get the ‘wildness’ back in ‘wild’ in our own yards. Unequaled fervor and passion drives us ever on . . .


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