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| FALL 2025 NEWSLETTER |
Successful Fall Plant Sales
Customer with her purchase from the Jepson Chapter booth at the Solano Resource Conservation District's Fall 2025 Plant Sale. The public had three opportunities to buy native plants from the Jepson Chapter this fall. And the public responded. $2,565 in plants were sold at the Jepson Chapter's on-line store from September 13 to September 21. $2,232 in plants were sold at our in-person plant sale on September 27 at Heritage Presbyterian Church in Benicia. Finally, $1,089 in plants were sold at the Solano Resource Conservation District sale on November 8 at Solano Brewing Company in Vacaville. All the plants were from our native plant nursery in Vallejo. The Chapter Board of Directors thanks all the volunteers who helped grow the plants and staffed the sales events. Below are links to photos taken at the in-person plant sales. |
SAVE THE DATE!The Private Native Plant Gardens tour on April 25, 2026 will be hosted by the Jepson Chapter as part of the Sustainable Solano’s Food Forest Garden Tour in Benicia & Vallejo. The Public Gardens Tour on April 26, 2026 is primarily a self-guided tour at outdoor locations across Solano County. Want to help at the garden tour as a docent? Would you like to host your own native plant garden on the tour (as an alternate for 2026, or for 2027 garden tour)? Let us know by sending an email to jmderkacz@att.net. |
Vacancy for Chapter Treasurer Filled Lex Makuta, Chapter Treasurer, staffs the customer checkout station at the Fall Plant Sale with fellow volunteer Linda Sonnen. The Jepson Chapter Board of Directors was pleased to announce at its September meeting that Chapter member Lex Makuta was appointed by President Pam Muick to serve as Treasurer. This position has been vacant since February. Lex’s tenure began just before the collapse of the Chapter’s on-line store that occurred on the first day of our members-only access to the Fall Plant Sale. Lex worked with the CNPS staff to get the on-line store running several hours after customers began complaining that the on-line store was not working. The election of Chapter officers for 2026 will occur in December. Anyone interested in serving on the Board should contact Pam Muick at contact@jepson.cnps.org. |
Native Plant News from Others App for Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve: Stebbins-Cold Canyon is a UC Nature Reserve in Solano County that is open to the public and periodically offers guided hikes to those who sign up here for notification. Hiking in the Reserve can become a richer experience with an app recently released by staff of the UC Davis Nature Reserves. The app is available for Android and IOS users and offers an interactive trail map, field guides for common critters and plants, and the ability to send trail reports or queries to Nature Reserve System staff. They would love to have your feedback so that they can continue to improve on this great field tool. The Friends of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden issue monthly newsletters promoting the resources available at the Regional Parks Botanic Garden, a living museum of California native plants located on ten acres in Berkeley’s Tilden Park. Click here for the November newsletter. It includes an article describing a project to share rare desert ferns that the Regional Parks Botanic Garden collected from the Mojave National Desert Preserve with the Denver Botanic Garden. These cooperative relationships exist among all botanic gardens in North America.
The Solano Resource Conservation District is one of 90 Resource Conservation Districts in California, helping public and private land owners restore, protect and enhance their watersheds. Click here for the District's annual newsletter which describes their accomplishments for Fiscal Year 2024/25. These accomplishments include enhancing pollinator habitat at Benicia State Recreation Area by removing invasive fennel and thistles along 3,000 feet of Bay Trail and planting native trees, shrubs and vines, and spreading these areas with yards of wood-chip mulch as part of a $900,000 Climate Habitat Block Grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board.
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