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In June of 2010, Roy Wilburn was hired as Sunshine Care’s Director of Horticulture. You can usually find him in one of the five organic gardens, producing high quality organic fruits and vegetables for the residents and those in need in the Poway area. Roy’s other responsibilities include maintaining Sunshine Care’s beautiful greenhouse, fruit tree orchards, Memorial Rose Garden and the landscaping of its 32-acre facility. As a Master Composter, Roy handles the compost and vermiculture programs. Twice a month, he is with local home-schooled children and residents, directing the Sunshine Care Garden Club’s “Seed to Table” program. In this program, the children learn all aspects of growing organic fruits and vegetables in their own “Children’s Garden” Included in this program are Sunshine Care residents who the children refer to as their “Grandmas and Grandpas.” Sunshine Care also offers a series of free garden lectures and workshops once a month. Roy and guest speakers cover a wide variety of horticultural issues pertaining to the particular time of year.
[ Read Farmer Roy's Complete Bio ]
Contact/RSVP: Lisa Lipsey, Director of Community Relations
Phone: 858-752-8197
E-Mail: lisa@sunshinecare.com
All of our lectures are FREE. Snacks and Refreshments will be served plus you could win garden
products during our door prize drawings.
February In The Garden—Peak Planting Time!
Saturday Feb. 18th, 2012 , 10:30 a.m. [ Details ]
Free Garden Club for Kids
1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, 9:45 a.m. [ Details ]
Archives of past lectures. [ Details ]
| When: |
Saturday, Feb. 18 at 10:30 a.m. |
When: |
Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes
12695 Monte Vista Road
Poway, CA 92064
(Follow the signs & balloons to the event) |
| Speaker: |
Roy Wilburn, Director of Horticulture, Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes |
| Description: |
Roy will show you why February in Southern California is the best time to plant both cool and warm season crops. We’ll look at how to maintain the fields and get a great spring harvest. Bring your toughest garden questions and come share your favorite garden tips!
Door Prize Drawings & Refreshments at every lecture!
Please RSVP to lisa@sunshinecare.com and bring along closed toed shoes, water, hats and sunblock. We look forward to seeing you in the garden! |
- (Parent Participation Required)
| When: |
1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, 9:45 a.m. |
When: |
Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes
12695 Monte Vista Road
Poway, CA 92064
(Follow the signs & balloons to the event) |
| Speaker: |
Farmer Roy, Director of Horticulture, Sunshine Care Homes
Lisa, Director of Community and Intergenerational Relations |
| Description: |
Do you know a toddler or home-schooled elementary level student that would like to participate in our Intergenerational Garden Club? Kids and a parent or grandparent are invited to join us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. The first 45 minutes is our time in the fields learning with Farmer Roy (our Director of Horticulture) and Lisa (Our Director of Community and Intergenerational Relations). The 2nd half of the program is time with the Residents of Sunshine Care, visiting and working with them on planting seeds, tasting produce and enjoying the beauty of nature. Teach your kids the seed to table process and how to be great volunteers. Projects include: seeding, harvesting, transplanting, weeding, releasing lady bugs, worm bins, composting and more.
Please RSVP to lisa@sunshinecare.com and bring along closed toed shoes, water, hats and sunblock. We look forward to seeing you in the garden! |
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NBC 7 Reports
Intergenerational Garden Club
October 27, 2011 - Raising a child to be independent is important. But in the process teaching children to care for others and their community can get overlooked. So how do you raise a charitable child in a world so focused on "me, me, me?" Monica Dean NBC 7 reports.
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| When: |
Saturday, January 21st at 10:30 a.m. |
When: |
Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes
12695 Monte Vista Road
Poway, CA 92064
(Follow the signs & balloons to the event) |
| Speaker: |
Richard (Dick) Streeper and his wife Sue |
| Description: |
Consulting Rosarians from the San Diego Rose Society. Richard was the Founder of the Inez Grant Parker Rose Garden at Balboa Park in San Diego. He is also the Organizer of the San Diego Rose Garden Corps.
This talk will focus on general rose care, followed by a hands-on demonstration showing the basics of how to prune roses properly. We encourage our guests to bring their own pruning saws, lopers, bypass pruning clippers and rose gloves, if they have them, and join in the fun. Some tools will be provided for sharing.
Please RSVP to lisa@sunshinecare.com and bring along closed toed shoes, water, hats and sunblock. We look forward to seeing you in the garden! |
| When: |
Sat., October 22, 10:30 – 12 noon |
When: |
Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes
12695 Monte Vista Road
Poway, CA 92064
(Follow the signs & balloons to the event) |
| Speaker: |
Roy Wilburn, Director of Horticulture, Sunshine Care Homes |
| Description: |
Come learn the ins and outs of preparing to plant for the winter time in San Diego. We'll talk about winding down summer crops (tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchinis and cucumbers) and starting and tending fall/winter crops (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and lettuce). This will be part lecture, part walking tour and field demonstration. |
| When: |
Sat., October 1st , 10:30 – 12 noon |
When: |
Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes
12695 Monte Vista Road
Poway, CA 92064
(Follow the signs & balloons to the event) |
| Speaker: |
Janice Shigehara, RD, CDE, Dietitician and Professor |
| Description: |
Janice Shigehara has been a dietitian with Scripps since 1988. Janice is also Program Director and on faculty with the Department of Dietetics at San Diego Mesa College and she teaches cooking classes at the Whittier Institute for Diabetes in La Jolla. During this lecture she will do a cooking demonstration teaching us all some fabulous quick and easy, healthful recipes to try at home while giving us some practical tips on adding fresh produce to our meals. She can also answer questions relating to dining out, shopping and label reading.
(Includes Demo. Using Organic Produce from our Fields) |
| When: |
Sat., September 10th, 10:30 – 12 noon |
When: |
Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes
12695 Monte Vista Road
Poway, CA 92064
(Follow the signs & balloons to the event) |
| Speaker: |
Gordon Smith, Chair of Encinitas Community Garden |
| Description: |
If you like to garden but don't like weeding, expensive water bill and pesticides, Vertical Growing is for you! Gordon Smith, chef, organic farmer, founder of Slow Food San Diego and chair of the Encinitas Community Garden will show you how to have a bounty of herbs and vegetables on the corner of a terrace or even on concrete using the Grow-Up method. Great for an apartment or deck and easy to install. All you need is a small space and good, consistent sunlight. |
| When: |
Sat., August 27th , 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon |
When:
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Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes
12695 Monte Vista Road
Poway, CA 92064
(Follow the signs & balloons to the event) |
| Speaker: |
Patrick Anderson, Horticulturist, speaker on garden design, history, and plants, Fallbrook, CA |
| Description: |
With California's continued drought, succulents are showing up more often in our gardens. Join us for a
FREE lecture to discuss succulents and container gardening. Patrick's own succulent garden has been
featured in numerous magazines such as Horticulture, Sunset and Fine Gardening, and in the the books
Desert Gardens by Gary Lyons and Melba Levick; Designing with Succulents by Debra Lee Baldwin;
and New Garden Design by Zahid Sardar and Marion Brenner. As a founding member of the San Diego
Horticultural Society and frequent volunteer at Quail Botanical Garden and the Huntington Botanical
Garden, Patrick has had access to many succulents and succulent gardens to feed his enthusiasm for these
beautiful and varied plants. |
| When: |
Sat., August 13th, 10:30 – 12 noon |
When: |
Sunshine Care Assisted Living Homes
12695 Monte Vista Road
Poway, CA 92064
(Follow the signs & balloons to the event) |
| Speaker: |
Ramiro Lobo, UC Small Farms Advisor |
| Description: |
Join us for a FREE lecture and tasting of The Pitaya or more commonly referred to as the dragon fruit. It is an extremely beautiful fruit that has dazzling flowers and an intense shape and color. The dragon fruit
is usually a dark red color, although some types of this fruit are pink or yellow. The skin of the dragon
fruit is a thin rind. The skin is usually covered in scales, and the center of the fruit is made up of a red or
white, sweet tasting pulp. Learn about growing this exotic fruit, how California growers are starting to
grow it, how people prepare it and of course sample some Dragon Fruit! |
ABOUT SUNSHINE CARE, POWAY, CALIFORNIA (North San Diego County)
Established in 1990, Sunshine Care is a community of assisted-living homes on a 28-acre Campus in
Poway, California. This unique alternative for assisted living specializes in Alzheimer’s and Dementia
care while providing an environment with all the comforts and reminders of home. Sunshine care
provides the highest level of individualized care and attention that we would want for our own loved
ones. Sunshine Care is also on the cutting edge of activities and going green, from our
intergenerational programming to our organic farming. The campus has an on-site greenhouse and
orchards where organic fruits, vegetables and herbs are grown from seed. For more information,
please visit http://www.sunshinecare.com
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