26 • October 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. October Garden
King’s Nurs- ery (542- 4782) is ‘ focusing on replacing summertime veggies with fall and win- ter
veggies,
like Brus- sel sprouts, broccoli,
peas, cau- lifl ower, fava beans and cabbage. Also fresh plantings of year-round veggies like carrots, beets, lettuce, kale, onions and garlic. You can do this gradually as the summer gar- den wanes, replacing plants as they fi nish up. Cindy reminds, “Plant daffodils, tulips, freesia, hyacinth etc. beneath cool season bloomers like pansies, poppies, ornamental cabbage, primrose and cyclamen. The bulbs will pop up right through the fl owering plants, creating an amazing double-decker display in spring.” Cindy says, “Prepare for frost!
All it takes is one night of those temps to kill our young ten-
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always handy in the garden shed. Wipe them off with a rag or piece of burlap. Store them out of the rain and they will last for a long time!!
Co-manager Cindy Stewart at
der plants, so if you wait too long it will be too late!” Gasp! Sabrina Howell, owner of Wild
Toad Nursery (529-5261), says it’s time to clean your ponds! Cut back water plants and remove de- bris. When you pull ma- terial out of your pond put it on a wire mesh so pond creatures can wiggle back into the water before you compost the remains!
It’s actually a great time to put in a pond, full of elegant water plants and wonderfulness, a new ecosys- tem for your little piece of Para- dise! Take time to discover and visit all of the plant nurseries in our be- yond- beautiful Sonoma County. Build a little house for the song- birds (may they forever sing!) and let your garden be a sanctuary for pollinators, butterfl ies, frogs, crickets. Plant more Shasta daisies and California natives so we can invite some of the ‘wild’ back into our gardens, our sacred places. . .
“At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.”
Leo Babauta LDER ISDOM Sweet Spot JOKES & Humor # 5 ... continued from page 8
Mineta. Yes, the same Norm Mi- neta who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1995, and was appointed U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush in 2011. Despite what may appear to be a fairy tale upbringing to an outsider, Wally’s parents’ relationship was strained and the rule for children in the Schilpp household was to “be seen but not heard,” so Wally spent many hours perched on the stairs to the home’s upper fl oor, just listen- ing...
Stay tuned for Part 2, coming in the November 2016 issue of Upbeat Times , and learn why I chose the name “Silver Lin- ings” for this article!
Friend of Sonoma County Agriculture
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our local agriculture as this year’s Friend of Sonoma County Agricul- ture. Kruse will be honored during the Harvest Fair awards ceremony and dinner to be held September 25 at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. A limited number of tickets are available at
HarvestFair.org or at the Harvest Fair Box Offi ce lo- cated at 1350 Bennett Valley Road in Santa Rosa.
The 2016 Sonoma County Harvest Fair is September 30-October 2 at the Sonoma County Events Center at the Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa. For information, visit HarvestFair. org or call (707) 545-4200. You can also follow “Sonoma County Har- vest Fair” on Facebook.
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also brought in the support of the Goodwin Family, and together we are moving forward to offer a niche for a growing class that has been born in Sonoma County.” What also makes the Sweet Spot a re- laxed and fun place to hang out is a full regulation shuffl eboard table, an HD big screen with fl at screens throughout the pub to view your favorite sports games and it’s the only place in town that that offers board games. And it wouldn’t be a surprise to run into San Francisco Giants announcer Mike Krukow, who visits on occasion and men- tions the Sweet Spot from time to time in his game broadcasts. Still offering unique Belizean- themed recipes, all home-made from scratch, like its Sweet Spot signature secret wing sauce, there are also “Maria’s Specials” - Ma- ria’s family recipes - that rotate weekly, the Pub is also now offer- ing a Sunday brunch menu. “Our rebirth is in time to witness the restoration of Courthouse Square,” Ryan said. “So as we restore the heart of our downtown community, we’re also cooking up some fresh new things for our beloved Sweet Spot.” You can fi nd John Ryan at 619 4th St in Santa Rosa, CA., 95406. (707) 528-7566 or E-mail:
sweetspotpub1@gmail.com
My three-year-old daughter stuck out her hand and said, “Look at the fl y I killed, Mom- my.” Since she was eating a juicy pickle at the time, I thrust her contaminated hands under the faucet and washed them with antibacte- rial soap. After sitting her down to fi nish her pickle, I asked, with a touch of awe, “How did you kill that fl y all by yourself?”
Between bites, she said, “I hit it with my pickle.”
Matsuri Donates
for a few years prior, the festival expanded its scale dramatically in 2011 as a result of an outpouring of support from community members who wanted to help devastated ar- eas in the aftermath of the earth- quake and tsunami in Japan earlier in the year. At the festival in March 2011, Sonoma County Matsuri raised $10,000 for the relief efforts in Japan. The festival board had decided to raise funds for Tohoku again this year in commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the disas- ter; it extended support to the Ku- mamoto region in the wake of the recent earthquake.
Matsuri Board President Henry Kaku expresses his gratitude to all the festival supporters. He states, “The donation would not have been possible without the partici- pation and strong support of the community. One of the main ob- jectives of Sonoma Matsuri is to share the uniqueness of Japanese culture in the hope that others may gain a deeper understanding of our shared commonality and humanity, and to foster meaningful social in- volvement. We can think of no better way of demonstrating these goals than by, once again, expressing our solidar- ity and making a donation to help those whose lives have been so dramatically impacted.”
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