Pancake Breakfast & Plant Sale Next Week!
Join us on Sunday, September 11th, 9am to 2pm
|
|
Please join us for a morning of food, friends, and fun in support of our nursery, education, and ecological restoration programs.
We will be serving up delicious blueberry pancakes, sausages (veg & non-veg), fruit, coffee, and our special invasive blackberry syrup from 9am to 12pm.
We are seeking a few more volunteers to help us with the Pancake Breakfast. Please fill out this form if you are interested. Volunteers get free entry to the breakfast!
|
|
So Grateful for our 2022 Event Sponsors! |
|
We want to thank our amazing sponsors of the 2022 Pancake Breakfast.
With their generous support, this fundraiser is already a tremendous success!
|
|
San Bruno Mountain: A Guide to the Flora & Fauna
Book Release Party on November 19th! Tickets Available Now
|
|
Authors Doug Allshouse and David Nelson will deliver presentations detailing the exciting, nine-year journey to produce this beautiful book. Hear riveting stories about rare plant discoveries on the mountain, the photographic process that produced 2,000 color images for the book, and more!
Doug and David will also be selling and signing books. Get your special copy at the event and be among the first to dive into the pages of this superb resource for learning about San Bruno Mountain.
Enjoy delicious, catered hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and desserts throughout the evening and browse a variety of exhibits, displays of mountain art, photographs, and poems.
|
|
Highlights of the Summer Season
A Few Sweet Memories From Recent Months
|
|
Painting wooden stakes to mark plantings for the San Bruno Mountain Botanical Garden. |
Continued stewardship efforts at the mouth of Colma Creek with Climate Career Corps summer interns. |
|
Students help process and organize used nursery pots, so they can later be sanitized and reused.
|
A colorful summer plant sale in June. |
|
The season for seed collecting.
|
|
Summer blooms! California fuchsia. |
|
Labor History on San Bruno Mountain
A Mountain Memory to Recall on Labor Day, September 5th
|
|
"Fallen Sierra and San Francisco Power Company High Tension Towers in San Bruno Mountains Tower Was Likely Dynamited by Labor Activists Connected to Strike | June 11, 1916"
|
|
A series of explosions that toppled electric towers on San Bruno Mountain in June of 1916 (targeting the Sierra and San Francisco Power Company which provided power to United Railroads) preceded the Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco. The two events were allegedly linked to the same culprits by the similar design of the bombs used.
An abandoned suitcase bomb was found near the railroad tracks, a few miles from the site of the tower explosions on San Bruno Mountain. It was said that this bomb "had the same earmarks of craftsmanship" as the one used in the Preparedness Day attack in San Francisco, the only difference being the inclusion of shrapnel in the latter bomb.
Side note: As I searched for and gathered newspaper clippings on this topic for the San Bruno Mountain Archives (see the "San Bruno Blasts" collection), I came across an article from 1971 noting the discovery of an old, partly buried bag of dynamite near Radio Road on San Bruno Mountain. I wondered if that bag of dynamite was abandoned material from that 1916 bombing...
This possibility was apparently not considered; no mention was made in the 1971 article of the 1916 transmission tower bombing. They had more modern towers on their mind—a sheriff's spokesman concluded, "as far as we know, there was apparently no indication the explosives were to be used in sabotaging the (radio and television) towers."
|
|
California Biodiversity Day BioBlitz on Mountain
Saturday, September 10th
|
|
Please meet on Saturday, September 10th at 8:45 AM at the Main Parking Lot in the Park (555 Guadalupe Canyon Parkway, Brisbane, CA). There you will check-in and enjoy some snacks. The "Blitzing" will begin at 9 AM. From there several teams will split up for about 2 hours to explore entire sections of the park!
Questions: Contact Katherine Wright at kewright@smcgov.org
|
|
Mission Blue Nursery Featured Volunteer
Amy Seto
|
|
Interview by Ann Kircher
-
How do you know about San Bruno Mountain? I've lived in Brisbane for 17 years. My backyard is the San Bruno Mountain.
-
What do you most value about the Mountain? I love the mountain because it provides a home for the wildflowers, the native plants, and the wildlife.
-
How did you find out about Mission Blue Nursery? I found out about the nursery a few years back while talking to Ariel during a mountain clean-up.
-
What motivates you to come to the nursery on Wednesday mornings? I very much enjoy working with plants. The relaxing environment of getting to chat with the other volunteers while we work together is an added bonus.
-
What is your favorite thing about volunteering at the nursery? My favorite activities are gallon pot-ups and plucking dead leaves (it is so satisfying). Of course, it also makes me happy knowing that I'm helping to grow plants for our plant sales and/or mountain restoration.
-
What is your favorite native plant that grows on San Bruno Mountain? I have a few favorites, they are Dudleya farinosa, Lupine, Hummingbird Sage, and Iris.
-
What is your background? What kind of preparation and training do you have for volunteering at the nursery? I've always liked plants and have grown plants in my garden but had not had the chance to do anything professionally. It's been my hobby.
-
What did you do with your life before Mission Blue Nursery? I was working full-time as a computer programmer for over 20 years until I retired a few years ago.
-
Is there anything else you'd like to add? I'm very glad to be working alongside people with similar interests. Ever since I started volunteering there, I've been learning so much about the lifecycle of plants, how to properly grow plants, and a lot more. Ariel and Carly have been so knowledgeable, answering all of my questions.
|
|
Powdery liveforever (Dudleya farinosa) |
|
Botanical Art Workshop at Mission Blue Nursery
A Wonderful Gathering Led by Artist Mary Harden
|
|
Botanical artist Mary Harden led a lovely workshop, and many attendees went home with the San Bruno Mountain plant they illustrated!
If you would be interested in attending future botanical art workshops at the nursery, please reply to this newsletter and let us know.
About Mary Harden:
Mary L. Harden is a passionate artist and a gifted educator. Among Mary's accomplishments is her work to inspire and motivate artists to "give back" and to build public awareness about the beauty and fragility of our plant kingdom. Curating educational exhibits for the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at Strybing Arboretum and for the SF Conservatory of Flowers have furthered this work.
The creation of her highly original and successful Botanical Illustration Curriculum, which to date numbers 11 different courses of sequential curricula, began with her work for the SF Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum.
In 2018, Mary lead an exhibit featuring botanical artwork of San Bruno Mountain native plants.
|
|
Volunteer Days at Mission Blue Nursery
Cultivate the native flora of San Bruno Mountain
|
|
Volunteers are so important to the success of the Mission Blue Nursery! Every week, we delight in the presence of community members who help with a variety of activities.
|
|
And Volunteer Days on the Mountain! |
|
Help care for the landscapes of San Bruno Mountain!
|
|
Guided Hikes! Summit Loop
Join Fun Walks to the Top. Third Saturday of Every Month.
|
|
Join a guided 4-mile hike on the Summit Loop trail of San Bruno Mountain State & County Park!
The hike is led by Paul Bouscal. Paul is a former board member of both San Bruno Mountain Watch and the California Native Plant Society-Yerba Buena Chapter and has completed the UC California Naturalist program.
Paul leads these hikes on the third Saturday of every month.
|
|
Plant Menu Paused Until After the Sept. 11th Sale
Online Plant Sale Orders for Pickup Will Resume Afterward
|
|
Mission Blue Nursery will continue to provide plants through plant pick-up appointments in between our in-person public plant sales.
We encourage you to join us for the in-person sales, as we offer a wider selection of plants during these events!
However, if you miss the plant sale on Sunday, September 11th, you can make an appointment for later. |
|
Quarterly Newsletter
Summer 2022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
