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CdM This Weekend: Five Great Things For Your To-Do List
posted: September 30th, 2011 03:07 pm |
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1. Roger’s Gardens has planned a California Friendly Gardening trip to the Environmental Nature Center from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday. “On this trip we will focus on native plant gardening and home composting, providing helpful tips and tricks for California Friendly gardening, planting with natives and re-using your garden’s green waste,” Roger’s website states. You also can join “My Edible Garden in October,” a lecture scheduled for 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday that will cover planting of cool-season crops and a discussion of growing plants from seed versus starting from transplants. Steve Hampson will lead the interactive discussion, which also will cover the planting of potatoes. Roger’s Gardens is located at 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road.
2. Join the ZeroTrash First Saturday event, scheduled for 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday and help clean up. Meet at El Ranchito for a free red t-shirt, a bag and a trash grabber; click here to read more about ZeroTrash and click here to read about an earlier event. Corona del Mar’s SCAPE Gallery is now sponsoring the cleanup effort.
3. The Orange County Children’s Book Festival will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Orange Coast College located at 2701 Fairview Road in Costa Mesa. The event, which drew about 30,000 visitors last year, touts itself as the “largest free children’s book festival in the world” and will feature authors, illustrators, storytellers and vendors along with a live petting zoo and an animal stage with wild animal demonstrations and animal storytelling events. To access free parking, enter at Fairview Road and Arlington Drive. For more information, visit the event’s website.
4. The Newport Beach Central Library will host the Southland Opera as it presents a youth program called “Adventures in Song and Story” from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturday. The program uses familiar fairy tales and stories to introduce kids to operas, operetta and musicals. The library also will host a Family Storytime program from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday with stories, songs and a craft aimed at children between 3 and 7 years old; a grownup must accompany them. The library is located at 1000 Avocado Ave.
5. Crystal Cove State Park will host a free guided tidepool walk at 9 a.m. Sunday; meet at the Pelican Point #2 parking lot. There is a $15 day-use parking fee.
