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Worry Less Now! Find Peace, Clarity and Connection
Join Gigi Langer, expert on overcoming worry and negative thinking, to learn concrete strategies to gain greater peace of mind and wisdom during your troubling times. Gigi Langer holds a PhD in Psychological Studies in Education and an MA in Psychology from Stanford University. She is a seasoned author and popular speaker who has helped thousands of people improve their lives at home and work. Gigi hasn’t had a drug or drink for over 30 years. Her newest book, 50…
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Oakes Demonstration Farm Tour
No RSVP required. Tour Oakes Demonstration Farm where we grow a variety of conventional herbs and vegetables, annual flowers, raise chickens, keep bees, and farm shrimp and tilapia to provide community education and stock our markets and some local restaurants. You will even finally meet Oakes Farm's own Kirk Hendersen, our garden center and nursery manager! Park at the farm and overflow parking on Deer Run Lane, wear full footed shoes, be well hydrated, and wear sun protection. We will…
Find out more »“Facts and Fiction on Medical Marijuana” with Dr. Potter
Evidence-based studies prove medical marijuana is beneficial to thousands of patients. It can help people suffering from back injuries, chronic pain, cancer, MS, and a host of other debilitating conditions. Patients should have access to something that will help them. Dr. Potter will be conducting a 45 minute lecture on the benefits of Medical Marijuana.
Find out more »Gardening Talk
Join our monthly open topic gardening discussion. What's growing now? What to plant? What other gardening activities coming up? In this class, attendees can bring their questions, plant problems, and ideas; we’ll share organic methods and solutions to problems. If you bring plant parts with a problem, please keep the plant parts in plastic bag so we don’t spread the problem to our garden center plants.
Find out more »Tropical Edibles
Have you heard of jicama, tumeric, ginger, velvet beans, okinawa and malabar spinach? Did you already learn about some at a previous class? Every year, we find more edibles that thrive here. What about tree kale, lorroco, and sacha inchi? These tasty and nutritious tropical foods and many more can be grown in our hot and humid climate; learn what they are, where to find them, how to grow them, and how to eat them!
Find out more »The Food Summit
E.A.T. An Unconventional Decade In The Life Of A Cancer Patient was written in journal format, and is based on the 18 journals Kathy kept during her battle with two rare and aggressive cancers. She refused to accept the prognosis of death and found herself tallying the limitations of conventional medical protocol, which led to Kathy’s conviction that neither cancer nor doctors would determine her fate. Despite taking advantage of everything her hospital had offered, Kathy’s body was failing, leaving…
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