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Come join us at any of the following events* that are open to the public without a registration fee (some have a small entrance fee). The Bird Festival Bazaar at the Morro Bay Community Center is open Friday, January 17, 2-4:30 pm and all day Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm. Shop for jewelry, artwork, books, photography, binoculars and more. Fun for the Family Day includes a day full of nature-related activities for adults and children starting at 9:00 am on Saturday, January 18, at the Museum of Natural History. Adult admission to the Museum is $3, children are free. Pacific Wildlife Care: Meet the Raptors will give two shows featuring live birds at 1:30 pm and 3:00 pm on Saturday, January 18, at the Veteran’s Memorial Hall. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children. Keynote Speaker Kimball Garrett of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will speak on Saturday evening, January 18, at 7:00 pm at the Morro Bay High School. His talk is entitled "But It Doesn’t look Like the One in the Book." Admission is $10 at the door. Keynote Speaker Jon Young, legendary birder, naturalist and author, will speak on Sunday evening, January 19, at 7:00 pm at the Morro Bay High School on the topic of "Bird Language – Stepping Into Our Design." Admission is $10 at the door. Glenn R. Stewart, director of the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, will talk about the group’s "Peregrine Recovery Program" on Sunday, January 19, at 3:30 pm the Morro Bay Community Center. Admission is $3. He will also appear as part of the Museum of Natural History’s Mind Walk series on Monday, January 20, at 10:15 am at the Veteran’s Memorial Hall speaking on the "Bald Eagle Recovery Program." Admission is $3. For more information about these events, visit Morro Bay Bird Festival. Morro Bay 50th Birthday Celebration to Kick off With January 1 HikeMORRO BAY – A New Year's Day community hike is just the beginning as Morro Bay prepares to celebrate 50 years of cityhood during an amazing year filled with festive activities, civic-minded projects and many memorable moments. Morro Bay became a city in July 1964, and to mark the 50th anniversary, the community is coming together to celebrate with a full year of events, all based around the motto "Morro Bay: Landmark & Legacy." At 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, hikers will gather at Morro Rock for 1st Hike Morro Bay. The first event of Morro Bay's Landmark & Legacy year, this easy walk along a section of the California Coastal Trail is being held in conjunction with the California State Parks 150th anniversary celebration. The free, family-friendly walk, led by State Parks docents, will head north along the beach during one of the lowest tides of the year. Hikers can gaze out across the blue Pacific, soak in the sights and sounds of the crashing surf and observe the wide variety of birds and sea creatures that make the Central Coast their winter home. Commemorative 1st Hike Morro Bay T-shirts will be available for purchase. The shirts will feature the "Morro Bay: Landmark & Legacy" logo, created specifically for the year's events by Morro Bay graphic designer John O'Brien, as well as the California State Parks 150th anniversary logo. As part of the year-long celebration, Morro Bay citizens are choosing outstanding members of the community from each of the past five decades to be honored at a "This Is Your Life Morro Bay" celebration on Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Morro Bay Community Center. Winners will be honored during a special ceremony at the event, which is being presented in partnership with the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce and catered by two local restaurants: Great American Fish Company and Off the Hook. Other highlights of the evening include presentation of awards for 2013 Citizen of the Year and 2013 Business of the Year, as well as Morro Bay's annual Living Treasure Award. A special presentation will take attendees on a photographic journey through the history of Morro Bay. In keeping with the theme of the event, tickets are $50 per person. They will be available at the Chamber of Commerce office. Seating is limited, so tickets should be purchased early to ensure space. A number of other Landmark & Legacy events are being planned for throughout the 50th anniversary year. Upcoming highlights include the Morro Bay Historical Parade and Community Party, the planting of 50 cypress trees, and completion of an important community legacy project, a statue titled "For Those Who Wait" to be installed at the harbor entrance by Central Coast Women for Fisheries. To learn more about the statue and fundraising for it, go to All this is just the beginning of a festive and memorable year for the city of Morro Bay. For the latest information on all 50th anniversary festivities throughout the year, visit Morro Bay 50th.
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• Ethical –functional/ecological economy not consumption/production economy
• Earth care, earth repair, earth restoration, people restoration
• Sensible
• Practical
• Beneficial to the global environment
A Soil Food Web Talk by Kevin Stitt - January 28, 2014 Meeting of SLO Permaculture Guild
SLO Grange, 2880 Broad St, San Luis Obispo
6 PM potluck meal and conversation; Kevin’s talk starts at 7 PM;
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• How do you change unwanted soil compaction through the use of the soil foodweb and plants?
• Why the “right amount of nutrients delivered at just the right time with no leaching” can occur in a healthy soil/foodweb/plant relationship?
• Can a healthy soil foodweb/plant relationship really self-maintain harmony until a disturbance occurs?
• Of all the benefits that the Soil Foodweb offers, conserving water use by increasing the water holding capacity of the soil is critically important and a very timely topic for SLO County. Roots are the rivers of plant life’s systems.
Kevin will share his passion for soil fertility of working with plants in their unique soil foodweb towards strengthening the plant’s natural defenses while assisting them in conserving their own water biosphere. He will also describe scientifically-based, soil foodweb enhancement techniques that he is commercially using in farm, orchard and home applications:
• Stewardship of Building Life in Soil towards Sustainability,
• Deep-Root Soil Infusion,
• Plant Health Natural Protection Systems,
• Vertical Mulching with Vermicompost
• Soil Water Holding Capacity of Essential Soil™.
Kevin Stitt
Kevin has grown his roots for over 20 years in the Green Industry both wide and deep, “N.E. Coast to C.C. Coast”. He personally studied under the deceased Dr. Alex Shigo, Chief Scientist of U.S. Forestry and with Dr. Elaine Ingham, Founder of Soil Foodweb Laboratories. Extracting lessons from his previous careers; he makes connections in construction - needed/unwanted compaction, as machinist – precision/tolerance and while providing security – harmony/disruption. Currently Kevin owns Stitt Plant Care and is working on the Caltrans’ Estrella Riverbank Restoration
Project for the Upper Salinas-Las Tablas Resource Conservation District in Templeton, CA. Most recently, Kevin accepted the See Canyon Manager position of caring for and maintaining a twenty acres orchard for Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County.
Assistance in updating farm and ranch plans is being offered for free by the Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District (Coastal San Luis RCD) to growers and ranchers in the Los Osos and Chorro Valleys of Morro Bay. The District Engineer will be available to provide recommendations and design practices that improve water and fertilizer efficiency, stormwater management and grazing management among other things.
"The RCD's Agricultural Water Quality Program is tailored to the individual grower or rancher's needs and may include cost share funds to implement priority projects. We encourage people to give us a call to determine exactly how the Program can support their projects", said District Engineer, G.W. Bates.
This year the Program supported installation of 17,900 feet of fence on two ranches, evaluation of 3 irrigation systems, design of water management practices and two years of surface water quality sampling. The Morro Bay National Estuary Program (MBNEP) is a key project partner supporting stream data collection.
The Program will continue through late 2015 and is supported by a grant from the State Water Resource Control Board. The Coastal San Luis RCD is a special district dedicated to conserving the natural resources of the County. To learn more about the Coastal San Luis RCD and our mission, visit Coastal RCD or contact us at 772-4391.
As the city's 50th anniversary approaches, Morro Bay residents are taking a look back at the people, places and events that helped make the community what it is today. Anyone with ties to the area is being asked to leaf through family photo albums and find pictures that could be used during a citywide celebration next year to mark 50 years since Morro Bay became a city on July 17, 1964. "We're particularly looking for actions shots – a fire breaking out or an event taking place," said Morro Bay photographer Garry Johnson, who is gathering photos for the celebration. "We're concentrating on the past five decades, but we're interested in photos from any period." While pictures of the sun setting behind Morro Rock may be beautiful, they don't necessarily tell a story about the city's history. Johnson said celebration organizers are most interested in finding photos that illustrate life in the community.
The 50th anniversary celebration is still in the planning stages, Johnson said, and organizers are looking at a number of ways that the photos might be used. "It depends on what we have to work with," he said. "We'd like to get 10 pictures from each decade – the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, etc. – and make them part of a huge display. It would be a portable presentation of photos that could be moved to different locations around town." He said a book or other commemorative publication is also being considered. Johnson assured that those who contribute photos will receive appropriate credit and that they will be able to keep their originals.
"We will copy them and get written permission to use them," he said. He noted that the search is not limited to photos from the past 50 years. If people have older photos of historical significance, he and his fellow organizers would be interested in seeing those, too. Johnson is working with Bill and Tracy Shewchuk at Suite 1 Gallery. For more information, call Johnson at (805) 772-3738, or send email. Or, photos can be taken to the gallery at 601 Embarcadero, Suite 1, Morro Bay.
Visit various local city sites for their upcoming events listings: Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria.
