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Cindy Davis
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Herbalist. Garden Educator. Community Care Advocate. UCCE Master Gardener. Chip in: https://my.cheddarup.com/c/cadman-cooking-and-garden-education/items?cart
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The Fall food garden is cruising along, seeds are sprouting and brassicas soaking up the sunshine. Teaching kids how to grow food is fun 🌱
Broccolini plants in a garden bed with a green paint stirrer labeling the crop and a veggie mural in the background Cauliflower plants in a garden bed with pvc hoops overhead supporting a white row cover Cauliflower and nasturtium in a garden bed labeled with orange and green paint stirrers and a mural in the background reads EAT THE RAINBOW with assorted fruits and veggies A seed is sprouting through a layer of golden straw mulch with two little green oval leaves
October 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Signed up for $25 monthly recurring donations to our neighborhood food/community services, Porchlight:

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Donation receipt for $25.00 to Porchlight Community Services
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The school garden edibles are mostly in the ground, seedling, seeds, and garlic bulbs are nestled in and labeled. The students worked so hard and had so much fun planting these last two weeks 🌱
A late Jack-be-little pumpkin flowers next to a comfrey plant that loves to take over the whole garden bed Cauliflower seedlings share space with a volunteer potato as our fall crops settle in Broccolini rapini seedlings for a raised garden bed, labeled with a green paint stick
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Spotted this California Mantis in a tomatillo at a Growing Garden Educators conference hosted by UC Master Gardeners. Happy to see them hanging out! 🌱
A brown California mantis clings to a lush green tomatillo plant facing the camera A speckled brown California mantis stretched long across the green, fuzzy leaves of a tomatillo plant
October 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🌱 Some days school gardening is the glamour of troubleshooting, diagnosing, and repairing irrigation in between school drop off, birthday cake baking, meetings, dog walks, laundry, and school pick up. Worth it because hand watering 20 garden beds is not for me!
Irrigation assembly against a beige wall. A gray digital irrigation timer and assorted tubing couplers and white pvc that make up the connection assembly Black tubing and connectors from irrigation timers to pvc pipes
October 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Little behind on my fall seed starting but close enough! Trays are set, seeds in the next time our new puppy takes a nap 🐾 🌱
A long table is filled end to end with light pink seedling trays filled with seed starting mix, divided in the center with 3 potted orchid plants. A terra cotta chiminea sits to the right of the table and a chair at the end is draped with an ivory dish towel printed with various succulents
August 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Argia Vivida, damselfly. Lots of blue friends in the garden today 🌱
Ona scarred, torn green leaf of a bird of paradise plant, argia vivida, a damselfly is striking with a long, narrow, electric blue body with thick, black interspersed stripes and long, Lacey black wings poised gracefully above the body. Bulging, friendly blue eye orbs seem to pop above a smiling mouth
August 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Gray Hairstreak on jade, a tiny backyard guardian 🌱
Gray Hairstreak butterfly: black and white antennae with yellow tips, blue-grey wings with one stripe each of black and white and a brilliant orange dot on each wing resting on a red rimmed, mostly green, summer dry shriveled jade plant leaf
August 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Late summer mornings in the school garden. Kids are back and we start lessons next month so peppers are going in the freezer and eggplant will first be prepared then frozen for cooking class 🌱
Snack size sweet peppers in bright red, brown, and green surrounded by green leaves and supported by twine tied to bamboo stakes Black colander basket with a harvest of dark purple long eggplant, round striated light purple eggplant, and bright red snack size sweet peppers rests in a straw mulched garden bed in front of an eggplant plant A growing watermelon rests Oma patch of cardboard A grouping of California Poppies blooming into golden orange cups and a bumblebee with full pollen pockets getting every last drop
August 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Welcoming our youngest learners at TK/Kindergarten Orientation and introducing them to our cooking and gardening program with strawberry knife skills/tasting and red wiggler worms 🪱 Our program is funded through donations and grants, donation link in bio if you can spare a buck or two, thank you!
A child’s hands manage a pink, nylon knife and a red strawberry on a green chopping mat as they practice slicing the strawberry Over a burlap covered table a child’s hands hold a magnifying glass and a red wiggler worm An adult holding a bright pink backpack stands with two children at our Meet the Chef table covered in a floral tablecloth with assorted flyers and chopping mats with safety knives. On the other side of the table our cooking teacher observes one of the children try out her knife skills with a strawberry Two children stand at a burlap covered table with a Meet the Farmer poster, assorted flyers, and trays of our red wiggler worms and compost. In the other side of the table our garden teacher tells the children about the worms
August 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Worm compost and straw mulch added to the fruits and veggies, herbs are blooming and keeping the bees busy 🌱
A small row of 3 backyard garden beds, a variety of herbs and edibles with loads of purple blooms from borage, oregano, lavender, and basil. 3 blue buckets sit off to the left and hedges and trees line the background Oregano flowers burst with light and dark purple blooms the bees seem to love, some yellow and green seedling trays await fall starts
July 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Our family visited in February 2022 and adventured around the Lava Lake, fascinating sky and land formations!
Dramatic gold and silver billowing cloud formations above a basalt field of sharp rocky peaks and sparsely scattered pine trees Infographic sign indicating the A’a Trail reads: A'a Trail On the jagged lava surface new life emerges. This easy 0.2 mile (0.3 km) loop trail traverses a section of the Bonito Lava Flow. "A'a" is from the Hawaiian word for "stony rough lava." It forms sharp, fragmented surfaces as it flows slowly and cools quickly. Sturdy footwear is recommended due to sharp edges along this basalt and loose cinder trail. On this extreme landscape, new growth brings transformation. Colorful lichens, flowers, and changing aspen leaves provide a bright contrast to the dark basalt and cinders. CONTO LAVATION Loras Edge You Are Here Trail Na Trait Sonto vit tva Flow 鱼开医 N0 Pets No Smoking No Bicycles No Climbing Please stay on trail to protect fragile resources. To the left is the Lava's Edge Trail. Across the road is the Lenox Crater Trail. Please park vehicles in the Lava Flow Trail parking lot when hiking these longer trails. Followed by a map of the connected trail systems
July 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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“Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy…🎶” Community Seed Swap today 🌱
Large swallowtail butterfly, black with yellow markings, wings spread flat and on full display while sampling some pale pink yarrow flowers growing out of some wood chips
June 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Spent several minutes with this little garden pal getting every last drop from a cluster of California poppies 🌱
A bright orange, fully bloomed California poppy is stuffed full of a fuzzy black body, black winged, yellow head and yellow bottomed bumblebee
June 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Summer solstice transformation! Prepped the area outside of an elementary school library to plant a pollinator garden. Huge appreciation for all of our volunteers 🌱
Overgrown outdoor are with pallets of stacked soil under a gray sky 6 pallets stacked high with bagged soil against a backdrop of a school building and a small mulberry tree among overgrown brown weeds An expanse of cleared weeds and freshly distributed soil with a school library building in the background Pavers line the perimeter of an expanse of freshly distributed garden soil with some large bougainvillea and a school building in the background
June 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Big Sur, nervous system reset
A small brown cabin with green trim sits atop a wooded slope A small stretch of the Big Sur River from shallow river rock strewn water to an emerald deep plunge and a wooded slope Sun shining brightly through a canopy of vibrant, lime green leaves and the shadow dappled ground below
June 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Glamorous irrigation work, seal failed, drying out the pvc and resealing/tightening up connections so at least it’s an easy fix and I get to hang with the bees and ladybugs 🌱
Separated irrigation components; white pvc pipe, white connectors, black and blue filter, black tubing, joints, and blue valve over a muddy garden bed where a leak flooded the bed Bright orange California poppies, one with a bee inside and other with a chonker bumblebee inside Bright green tomato plant with green immature tomatoes and a shiny red ladybug cruising the leaves
June 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Good morning from the Dew Drop Parsley Bed and Breakfast 🌱
Dew soaked bee resting and waiting to dry off on a lush green parsley plant
June 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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It’s a good day to let some sunshine in your life 🌱
Cloudless pale blue sky, towering palm trees, a small lawn, two wood Adirondack chairs against a row of 3 garden beds bursting with green leaves of chiles, fava, cilantro about to bolt, and nasturtium with bright pops of orange and yellow flowers
May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Blooms from seed cookies, (southwest regional wildflower mix, compost, seed ball clay), blooming around the garden 🌱 l
Soft pink, deep red, bright yellow, chocolate brown layers lead to the center of teeny tiny flowers on a close up of a marguerite daisy A frilly soft pink cornflower in full bloom with a riot of deeper pink in the center Small coastal tidytip flowers stand out against wood mulch with brilliant yellow centers delicately tipped in bright white around the outer edges Pink evening primrose petals with magenta veining and buttery yellow centers
May 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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So much growin’ on in the school garden. Here are just 3 of our 23 edibles beds 🌱
Garden bed with golden straw mulch, purple salvia flowering, 2 zucchini plants flowering, cilantro ready to bolt, and tiny green cucamelon plants starting to climb Garden bed thick with golden straw mulch hosting 2 tomato plants, 4 cucumber plants climbing an arch, and a jumble of rosemary, chives, and borage at the far left end Half of a raised garden bed with 2 pvc hoops growing 2 purple tomatillo plants, a basil plant, and orange bursts of marigold and California poppy
May 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Saw these wild webbed sacs of tent moth caterpillars in Joshua Tree last month
A bundle of gauze like webbing in a plant contains a mass of colorful tent moth caterpillars suspended in a desert plant’s branches
May 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Blackberries establishing well after about a month in the ground and Fresno chilies fighting the good fight despite coastal cover and short daylight hours 🌱
Babycakes blackberry about 18” tall and bright green and thriving Babycakes blackberry about 15 inches tall and erupting some early berry efforts among green leaves as it establishes Vining blackberry about 24 inches tall demanding I get a trellis going before it gets any tougher! Fresno chili plant with open white flowers against the gray coastal cover across the morning sky
May 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Fruit trees in various states of deferred maintenance; orange tree in need of pruning and infestation removal, lime tree ready for more fertilizer, lemon tree recovering from a bad haircut nicely, avocado getting too tall for easy harvesting.
A Valencia orange tree with vibrant green foliage from ground to top of canopy in need of pruning and pest maintenance but producing healthy oranges A sparse lime tree just post-flush with many baby limes dotting the branches. Leaves yellowing showing needs of nutrition and possibly watering adjustments A happy lemon tree recovering from a poor pruning job with vibrant green leaves, some Meyer lemons hanging low from the last harvest, and flushing with new buds An avocado tree reaching for the sky with varying colors of green and reddish brown foliage as it begins its transition to summer mode
May 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Morning mood boost, meeting my plant friends in the garden 🌱
Green foliage and ripe red strawberries in a garden bed along with pale green unripe strawberries A brilliantly bright pink matilija poppy with a sunny yellow center Lush marigolds bloom deep garnet, pale orange, and golden ruffles against green foliage A bee buzzes through blooming purple basil stems annoyed by my interruption
May 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM